Sociology of Health: Inequalities in Access to Healthcare

Sociology of Health
(CW1 Essay)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health quality refers to the unjust and voidable difference in people's health within-
population or in between some specific groups. This arises due to conditions in which people are
born, leave, grow, age and work. This is the one which created due to unequal distribution of
health and access of health care to a different class of people in different proportion. This is the
one which creates difficulty to access each and everyone in an equal manner. This report aims to
ways that social class leads to inequalities in health. In this report, there is a discussion about the
some of the ways which lead to inequality in health for some social class. In this report, there is a
discussion about theory in the sociology of health. There is also discussion about the role of state
and professions in management health. There is also discussion about the cultural and social
influence which can affect health construction. There is also a discussion about the concept of
the sick role in well-being (Raynault, (2020)).
MAIN BODY
In our society, there are five different types of social classes which are upper, upper-
middle, middle, working and lower class. These are the five classes that are generally
represented in society and have different access to health care services. These are the one which
has different access to health care services differently. There is a lower class which have
minimum access to health care. They are the ones who don't have high income and able to get
better health care in the private health care department. This is the one which creates the least
access to the healthcare premises for such type of social class. This creates a high difference
between other classes and the lower class in society. Society is one of responsible for creating
the difference between health inequality for different social class.
Society has a high influence on the social construction of health which creates a higher
difference between access to healthcare premises for every social class. This depends on the
culture and financial status of social class which can allow them to get better access to health
care services in different ways. Society is the one that is responsible for creating a different
social class in society which is the upper social class to lower social class. There is a difference
between upper social class and lower class which creates due to the economy and financial status
(Dover, (2019)). This creates different treatment of a commodity for different social classes.
Access to different commodities depends upon the status of social class which allows every