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Why Do Inequalities In Health Exist and Persist Despite Living In One of the Richest Countries In the World?
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WHY DO INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH EXIST AND PERSIST DESPITE LIVING IN ONE OF THE RICHEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD? This essay begins by examining the problems involved in forming inequalities in health and the main causes of these problems and why these problems exist. Various explanations for the apparent link between class and health are discussed. I will focus on 'social selection', on cultural and behavioural differences between classes, on material and structural inequalities and I will examine why these problems still persist. Theorists and social scientists have proved that poor health is related to social class and obvious ill health inequalities are found between the different classes, with the poor suffering most. Poverty and health are definitely linked and not only are the 'poor more likely to suffer from ill health and premature death, but poor health and disability are themselves recognised as causes of poverty' (Blackburn 1991, p7). There is...
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