A Report on Health Inequalities in Healthcare Settings

This report examines health inequalities within healthcare settings, using the families of Jo and Annabel as case studies. It highlights disparities arising from factors such as financial status, social support, and access to resources. The report discusses how these inequalities manifest in areas like health check-ups, treatment options, and overall healthcare experiences. It explores the impact of socioeconomic factors and the challenges faced by families with limited financial resources, including issues like unemployment and the potential loss of social services. The analysis also considers how individuals with greater financial stability may access better healthcare, emphasizing the need for equal medical benefits and a reduction in disparities. The conclusion stresses the importance of addressing these inequalities to ensure equitable healthcare access for all families.

INEQUALITIES IN
HEALTHCARE

Table of Contents
INTROUCTION..............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTROUCTION
Health inequalities refers to the unfair and unavoidable practices which are need to be
insight. This is the one which is creating the difference between different people on different
basis like gender, caste, age and many more. There is discussion about the Jo's family and
Annabel's family. In this, there is discussion about different inequalities which are there in the
health (Nishide and et. al., 2017).
MAIN BODY
There are different health inequalities which are there seen by the families within health
sector of Jo family and Annabel's family which are there able to get different inequalities. In
relation to this, there is some of the cases which are there can easily be seen in health check-up
or treatment. There are some of the information which is able to explain that there are
inequalities in the health care in which that can be seen easily in the premises of healthcare.
Some of the basis like financial status and colour discrimination can seen easily.
According to Gwatkin, (2000), Jo is not financially strong and there are many reasons
like unemployment, persistent stomach complaints, not getting food to her and her child on time
and many more. There is highly inequalities can see is the financially difference which are there
generally experienced by the families. In this, people who are not having high financial status are
not given priorities rather than the people who are having high financial status are given
priorities along with get better health care to them (Health inequalities and the health of the
poor, (2000)). There is normally can seen such types of cases when it is asked by any people or
families who are there looking little financially weak. Jo is very weak financially and due to
having past record of drug abuser there are many of the health equalities are there in which
hospital cost for the better treatment for her or her child is not affordable. There are sociological
inequalities which are there that are able to effect the Jo family. Due to not having any type of
employment, social services are able to take away her child for their better care (Perry, 2020).
There are many of the families who were there that having better financial status were there.
There is huge inequalities can be seen when anyone looks in better status. Families of patients
have faced such type of inequalities which created difficult to provide better care for their family
who is there as a patients (Gupta, 2018).

According to Meredith Grady, (2001), there is an another inequalities is there which is
faced by the families who are there for the treatment and to consume the better health care.
Annabel is financially strong and her both child are good by health. She is getting suffer form the
post-natal depression in which there is different mood-swing, anxiety and many more is there.
This generally happens in mom's. Due to having financially strong she is able to get better and
private health benefits. In this, Annable is there who have more money and able to get better
treatment which shows the inequities in the both of the families which are there. She is able to
make her child happy and also able to provide them better education along with extra activities
which is there due to having financially strong (Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in
healthcare, (2001)). There is need to focus on that each and every family should get equal
chance to get better medical benefits. In this, there is need to finish this type of equalities which
is there in the healthcare. Families are there who have to deal with such type of inequalities that
are created in the health care department and experienced by different families (Sehnbruch,
2020). It is very difficult to solve these inequalities in healthcare but there is chance to reduce it
highly. This can help to minimise the inequalities in healthcare and to provide better services to
all.
Such are the sociological which are there in the healthcare department in which they are
able to impact the healthcare services and facilities which should be there for each and every one
in equal manner. But due to different reason they are not providing the same offering and
services to each and every one where patients family are highly effected (Bygrave, 2020).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can be concluded that there are many of the factors and reason
which are there creating the inequalities in the healthcare. This lead to provide difference in
getting equal healthcare facilities. There is sociological explanation that are there creating the
differences in getting equal healthcare which are highly faced by patients families.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Nishide and et. al., 2017. Income-related inequalities in access to dental care services in
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Perry, 2020. Inequalities in vaccination coverage and differences in follow-up procedures for
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pp.171-175.
Gupta, 2018. Tackling inequalities in diabetes care: a data-led approach from Barking and
Dagenham CCG. British Journal of General Practice, 68(675), pp.481-481.
Gkiouleka, 2018. Depressive symptoms among migrants and non-migrants in Europe:
documenting and explaining inequalities in times of socio-economic
instability. European journal of public health, 28(suppl_5), pp.54-60.
Sehnbruch, 2020. Social protests in Chile: inequalities and other inconvenient truths about Latin
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Kitching and et. al., 2020. Unmet health needs and discrimination by healthcare providers among
an Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada. Canadian Journal of Public
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Bygrave, 2020. The impact of interventions addressing socioeconomic inequalities in cancer-
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Online
Health inequalities and the health of the poor, (2000). [Online]. Available through
<https://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/78(1)3.pdf>
Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare, (2001). [Online]. Available through
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220347/>