Health and Wealth

Running head: HEALTHCARE
Health and Wealth
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Article 1- Summary
The authors elaborate on the fact that there exists a definite correlation between health
and financial stress, and adults who belong to low socio-economic section of the society
report more financial stress, when compared to their wealthy counterparts. In addition, such
people are also considered to cope with their stress by consuming alcohol, smoking, binge
eating or watching television (Purnell, 2015). This statement by the author is in accordance to
the fact that stress creates a major negative impact on the sense of health and wellbeing of all
individuals, and that the maintenance of life is explicitly reliant on keeping the interior milieu
persistent in relation to an altering environment. It has often been found that financial stress is
closely interlinked to the onset and progress of cardiovascular outcomes, migraine, sleep
disturbances and other health problems, and also makes people display unhealthy behavior.
The authors also stated that childhood exposure to stress and poverty has exerts instant and
long-term impacts on behavior and development. Furthermore, familiar counseling and
education creates smallest impact on population, with socioeconomic factors exerting the
maximum impact on health.
Article 1- response
Thus, it can be stated that althoughnumerous situations tend to promptdissimilar
patterns of stress reactions, there are also discretealterations in stress reactions to the same
condition. Hence, the article was accurate in establishing the relation between health and
wealth, since people who belong to the economically disadvantaged section of the society
display an increased likelihood of having poor health outcomes.
Article 2- Summary
The authors illustrated that health disparities between the wealthy and the poor are
quite prevalent in the United Kingdom and the United States, with US residents having