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The influence of social class on health and healthcare This essay will define class, measurement of class by Registrar General Scale, and other interwoven factors by Acheson Report The four explanations for health inequalities, barriers to health care, new government initiatives, models of health and illness will also be considered. Relevance of sociology to nursing will be discussed last. Social class is grouping of people together and according them status in the based on their social and economic standing in the society. This form of social stratification is indebted to Marx (1883) and Weber (1864) theories. To Marx, social class is determined by two separate groups. The owner of factory, farms and raw material; and their labourers working for the production Senior and Viveash (1997). But Weber argued that social class is determined by individual's skills and qualifications obtained when competing for work in the job market, which determines their social prestige, life-style...

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