Impact of Socioeconomic Class on Health

INTRODUCTION TO
HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Health and Social Care is an effective study and practice area which is associated with
the overall care and well-being of an individual, as well as their necessary treatment and medical
assistance that is required by individuals during their ill states. It is imperative to assess different
areas of this aspect in order to get a prominent insight within different elements, practices and
essentials associated with this sector. Therefore, in regards to this, the essay below is based on
ways in which a person’s socio-economic class and their situation can have an impact on their
health. Moreover, as the topic is quite wide in nature, therefore the key areas upon which the
essay would be focusing on is Poverty, Employment, Environment and Housing.
MAIN BODY
Socio-Economic Class refers to individuals who have similar social, cultural, economical
or even educational and political status within a nation. People in a country are segregated into
groups which is directly associated with their economic and overall income status. For instance,
there are people belonging to labour class, working class, upper class and so forth; that are purely
based on their income capacity and modes of occupation. The essay would hence further explore
how this social economic class, particularly elements such as Poverty, Housing, Employment, as
well as Environment have an impact on their health.
In context of poverty, like other countries too, this issue is very severe within the United
Kingdom as well. Moreover, with event such as Brexit, this aspect gets even more severe.
Therefore, poverty and health share a negative cycle between them. The reason for the same is
that elements like poverty are the biggest contributors towards negative mental, along with
physical health. Furthermore, as it is a widespread and global issue, the access to healthcare is
again one very big and severe issue that is directly attached to poverty. There are two prominent
reasons within the UK which are related to this problem. First, UK has always been a fast going
nation, which requires its citizens to be financially effective in order to gain proper and effective
services within the healthcare. Secondly, the healthcare system of the country is again a big
contributor towards creating a issue of inaccessibility of healthcare services due to having high
prescription and medical charges. Not just grown up adults, but this socioeconomic factor
represents inequality in low birth weight too (Martinson and Reichman, 2016).
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