Inequalities in Health and Illness: A Sociological Perspective

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Health Equalities

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Task 1.....................................................................................................................................1
Compare and contrast differing sociological perspectives of health and illness..........1
Task 3.....................................................................................................................................4
Inequalities in health and illness...................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
References:.......................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Health Inequalities can be defined as the inequality between the people in terms of the
health status, health caste, health population and many more. It is mainly associated with the
wealth power and prestige. It arises from the conditions such as born, grow, live, work and age.
There are some examples of health inequalities like race, gender, education, income, disability,
geographic location and sexual orientation. Such inequalities destructs the human mind in
settling for the better because such mind sets has proven the wrong mental ability in a human
beings. Such negativity needs to be punch out for enhancement of life in a more amended
manner. The following discussions are made on the comparison and contrasting between
different sociological perspectives of health and illness, analysing the existing evidence of social
variations in health and illness in society, focussing upon the experiences of the two families in
the case study and examining some sociological explanations for the inequalities in health and
illness experienced by the families in the case studies with proper findings and conclusion.
MAIN BODY
Task 1
Compare and contrast differing sociological perspectives of health and illness
Functionalism Conflict theory Symbolic interactionism
Great wellness and effectual
medical check-up are necessary
for the ceaseless working of
social group. Patients must
execute the sick role in
command to be sensed as
legitimately sick and to be
excused from their average
obligations. The doctor - patient
human relationship is stratified:
The doctor gives instructions
and the patient requires to
Societal difference features the
superiority of wellness and the
quality of wellbeing aid. Group
from underprivileged social
group or backgrounds are more
possibly to become sick and to
acquire deficient wellness care.
Partially to gain their incomes,
doctor have tested to control the
action of medicine and to
specify social group difficulties
as medical troubles. As in the
Wellness and unwellness
social group building:
Physical and intellectual
situations have small or no
goal experience but
alternatively are reasoned
healthy or sick situations
solely if they are
characterized as such by a
social group. Doctor pull off
the conditions to
demonstrate their
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