Impact of Poverty on Health, Education, Ethnicity and Age

Running head: SOCIOLOGY
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Table of Contents
1. Impact of Poverty on Individuals and families......................................................................3
1.1 Theme 1: Poor Health.......................................................................................................3
1.2 Theme 2: Dearth of Education.........................................................................................3
2. Impact of ethnicity and age on Poverty..................................................................................4
2.1 Impact of Ethnicity on poverty.........................................................................................4
2.2 Old Age Poverty...............................................................................................................5
3. Analysis of Particular Story: chapter 20: nobody wants the north side.................................6
Reference List............................................................................................................................8

3SOCIOLOGY
1. Impact of Poverty on Individuals and families
1.1 Theme 1: Poor Health
Millions of people around the world suffer from poor health conditions owing to severe and
acute poverty. Poverty deprives families from the availability of hygienic living conditions
and as an outcome, about 14 million individuals around the glove are infected by infectious
diseases every year and more than 70% of them loses their lives as an outcome ( Molnar et al.
2015). The most common sources are contaminated water, the lack of sanitation and poverty
plays the most tricky part when owing to having a family income level below poverty level,
the patients cannot get proper healthcare and embraces death. One such infamous disease also
popular as the disease of the poor man is Malaria. There is lack of awareness and also paucity
of proper medicinal facility in the areas where people with low disposable income reside in
clingy houses without proper sewage and sanitation facilities. Such places then become the
breeding ground of mosquito larvae.
The area that is mostly poverty stricken and affected largely by the malaria disease is
Sub-Saharan Africa desert. Similarly diseases like HIV/AIDS also spread owing to acute
poverty where people do not have the money to buy contraceptive protective aids (McLeod et
al. 2017). Again, the treatment and cure to this disease is an affair of affluence. As an
outcome, most poor people infected with AIDS have no other option, rather than accepting
death. In poor countries like Zambia, Zimbabwe and so on, 1 among every five people die out
of HIV/AIDS and main reason behind death is the financial incapability to afford treatment of
the disease.
1.2 Theme 2: Dearth of Education
Poverty is directly associated with poor performance in academics. It have been
experienced that individual children who have been exposed to extreme conditions of poverty