Impact of Poverty on Health in Australia

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Social Determinant of Health
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Introduction
To study social determinant of health, we need to consider the globalization context as a
key point as health is globally an issue that should be addressed with much emphasis. The social
determinant of health generally is how people in every society live, work together and how they
push towards improving health status. A good health condition is seen in our homes, workplaces,
neighborhoods, and communities. To live healthy lives, we need to eat a balanced diet, do some
physical practice, get screen test and recommended immunization, avoid smoking drugs and
using harmful drugs and always visit the doctor to examine our health conditions on regular
basis. As well, our health is determined by the economic prevalence, resources, and opportunities
available in our societies, the quality of education, cleanliness of the drinking water and the
nature of social interaction and relationships. Talking on globalization, and conducting thorough
scrutiny of the factors mentioned above, it will be easier to make some comparison on health
among nations around the globe and state categorically why some nation in America are
healthier than others.
Over the past decades, the creation of a social and physical environment that promoted
good health or all was created to mark global connectivity and the main agender for the social
determinant of health. This was published by the world’s health organization in 2008 as a report
to seal up the gap of generation in health equity through the action of social determinant of
health as the second agender (Donkin, et.al, 2018). The report was embraced by the U.S health
initiative specifically in a national prevention and health promotion strategy and national
partnership for action to end health disparities. All the American's were given a free choice to
make a decision for good health. This was fastened by improving education, business, childcare,
law, transportation, and agriculture conditions to advance on the health issue.

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Choose a population from a culture other than your own, that is susceptible to, or protected from,
health problems due to social determinant e.g. families living under the poverty line in western
countries such as Australia
The effects of the impoverished population have been described by social determinants of
health in poverty through health and health inequality. Health inequality can further be studied in
peoples lives via age, working environment and how they affect people's capacity to respond to
diseases. The conditions are well defined by the political, economic and social structures. Most
of the people suffer health issues due to bad governance and poor relationship between the
structures. A good social determinant of health is as a result of a combination of remarkable
living conditions and the social drivers working as a unit.
Some uncontrollable conditions of external factors also attribute to health inequalities.
The inequalities manifest in an avoidable and unjust forms to daily life situations. In most cases,
the health inequalities are linked to poverty, poor access to good health services and
discrimination to various services. The following are some facts that were established in
Australia: It was revealed in 2014-15 that the people that live below the poverty lines in
Australia, were 1.6 times likely to suffer from chronic health conditions health conditions like
diabetes, high blood pressure and cancer than the well-off Australian families, the death rate of
the low-income families are high with three years less than those that their social status are
highly placed in the economy and in 2013 the mothers from low socioeconomic area gave birth
to babies that had low birthweight compared to mothers from high socioeconomic areas.
The key identification of social determinant of health and wellbeing of the Australian
people, their socioeconomic ranking, social exclusion, work and employment, the per-capita
income and early life circumstances were collected from the evidence obtained political,

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economic, social and cultural avenues. Poverty is caused by low education achievement, the
netizens are not well equipped, lack secure income, inadequate provision and incapable of
coping with the better health terms. Hence there should be a world’s drive to fight poverty at all
cost.
Explain using your own words how poverty in social determinant of health affects the
Australian population.
It is said that people from poorer economic backgrounds are more likely to suffer from
poor health compared to people from more advantaged and improved social setup. Poverty as a
social determinant has greatly undermined the health of an individual or a community at large. It
is said that families that live below the poverty line experience unemployment problems, low and
poor quality of education, inadequate industrialization and inadequate health facilities and
services. This is as a result of low per capita income and redundant economic growth. All these
are majorly caused by political instability, corruption and dictatorship kind of leadership where
the leaders can embezzle development funds without question by the public. As a result,
dependency ration goes high for the majority of the population(Bhalla, & Lapeyre, 2016). Their
youths become wasted as they only lazy around finally join drugs and unhealthy business that
promotes terrorism and unlawfulness. More of physical injuries are encountered in hospitals but
treatment and medication services are not up to standards causing a prolonged suffering period
and finally premature deaths.
Food, shelter, and clothing are the basic human needs that need to be attained on a daily
basis. Low-income families who are unable to attain these basic conditions suffer health
conditions caused by exposure to their insufficiency. Malnutrition causes deficiency diseases
such as marasmus, scurvy diabetes, among other diseases. A person’s health is affected by