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Socioeconomic Status, Race and Healthcare
Higher rates of illness among blacks as compared to whites have become a persistent thing over time. At the same time other ethnic/racial minority groups have over the years shown an elevated disease risk for some of the health conditions. This paper will look at how race and socioeconomic status combine to affect health. Health comprises of several dimensions such as loss of functionality, diseases and conditions, disability and even death. The process of health change within a population is thought to start with the onset of diseases and conditions that lead to loss of functionality and impairment and eventually cause disability or even death. The development of some of the chronic diseases, while they are not recognized clinically until one reaches their middle age is affected mostly by lifelong circumstances that are related to race and socioeconomic status. Some factors affect the likelihood of people from a certain race or social status will get a disease and at the same time determine whether the disease will eventually lead to loss of functionality, disability or even death (Crimmins, Hayward,...
For instance the death rate in black men from heart disease is higher as compared to that in white men even though they do not differ in the prevalence. This is also seen in groups of diseases that have been classified as cancer, the death rates from particular types of cancer appear to be less related to socioeconomic status as compared to deaths from other causes. Some causes of death and disease are affected by the mechanisms through which socioeconomic status works.an example is stress which is an important factor when it comes to hypertension and heart disease, obesity is condition that is commonly found among those in lower socioeconomic status .the socioeconomic resources of an individual affect their health throughout their life this therefore means that people of a lower socioeconomic status will not be able to avoid basic healthcare. This means that they are susceptible to mots of the diseases since their socioeconomic status makes them a population at risk (Crimmins,…
References
Williams, D.(1999). Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health
The Added Effects of Racism and Discrimination. Retrieved June 10,2014 from http://www.isr.umich.edu/williams/All%20Publications/DRW%20pubs%201999/race,%20SES,%20and%20health.%20the%20added%20effects%20of%20racism%20and%20discrimination.pdf
Crimmins, E., Hayward, M., & Seeman, T.(2010). Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health. Retrieved June 10, 2014 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25526/
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