Discussing Socio-Economic Class Impact on Health in the UK

This essay explores the significant impact of socio-economic class on health outcomes in the United Kingdom. It delves into how factors such as income, education, and occupation influence an individual's health and access to healthcare services. The essay examines the effects of poverty, occupational status, and income inequality on health, highlighting disparities within the UK. It also discusses the interplay between social and economic determinants, and how these impact an individual's well-being. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the complex relationship between socio-economic status and health within the UK context, offering valuable insights into the challenges and inequalities that affect different segments of the population.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Socio-economic status ..............................................................................................................3
Occupational status......................................................................................................................4
Poverty ........................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Socio-economic status
It is considered as the social class of an individual or group .It is measured as a
combination of the income,education and occupation. Social Economics focused the relationship
between the social behaviour as well as economics (Artiga and Hinton, 2019). It determines how
ethics,social norms and social philosophies impacts behaviour of the consumers and also shape
the public buying strands. It able to use the history ,politics ,current events ad other social
science that able to predict the potential outcomes from changes to the society or changes to the
economy. Present report Highlights on the Socio-Economic class difference in terms of
poverty,occupation ,Equality trust and many more.
MAIN BODY
Social Class difference in terms of feeling,identity, perception,behaviours makes it less
likely that working class people can benefits from the occupational and educational
opportunities to improve the circumstances (Dueñas and et.al, 2016) That means that that
redistributive policies are much required to break the cycle of deprivation that able to limit
threaten social cohesion and opportunities. Modern Western societies ,with their focuses on the
meritocratic values that promotes the belief that people may achieve anything if they have
enough amount of talent and also prepared to do hard work. Social classes are becomes wider
instead of Narrower. For example Within United kingdom in 2017 Equality Trust's figures
highlights that 41% of the national income goes in the hand of top one-fifth of households ,while
the bottom have only 7% that came under bottom one fifth households.
These figure based on the 2011 data. The income inequality between the 1938 and 1979
within the United Kingdom did reduce from some extent ,but with the subsequent decades their
process reversed . Also between 1980 and 2010 top 11% of the population enhances its incomes
shares from 20 % to 30% , while the share from the bottom line 10 % decrease from 5% to 1%.
Wealth inequality even well-defined than the income equality (Pisani and et.al 2016) .From the
U.K's office for the National Statistics highlights that within the period of 2012-2014 the 115 of
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the wealthiest families owned 46% of household wealth while the least wealthy household
owended less than 9%. The first point to address about the disappearance about the class
systems. As recent surveys shows that the class system within the United Kingdom I also very
much existence that also differs that are totally based on the in the Occupation. Using the recent
surveys and the latent class analysis it is identified that there are seven classes that are ranging
from the class called elite class refereeing an average household income such as $88,000 . From
the many interesting outcomes is it reflects that only 15% of the population is classified as
traditional working class. This highlights that the influence of de -industrialization as well as on
the basis of the broadly view on the old class system within the United Kingdom. It also clearly
defines that the old casts system also reconfigures as an outcome of the political and economic
developments. From the perspective of the Psychological (Trujillo and Plough, 2016). It consider
that the growing up and living under such various economic and social contexts have more
considerable influence on the thought,behaviour as well as feelings of the people
Occupational status
It concluded the levels of the authority,power,prestige as well as other resources that are
designed with various position within the Labour market. Occupational status have the benefits
over the income of being more permanent to the resource called economic resources (Trujillo
and Plough, 2016).There are three traditions that can be discussed in various disciplines that also
approached the aspects occupation concerns to the health. Researcher from the traditional
occupation highlighted on the physical aspect regarding job for example physical hazards and
chemical toxins' injury (Castañeda and et.al 2015)
Poverty
Considered as the ongoing problems facing within all societies. There are various ways
to exploring the issuers with the concerns of inequality and also the unequal allocation of
benefits versus non benefits The measurement of poverty raises the crucial issues that should be
conceptualized. 27 % of the population of the United Kingdom's population cannot afford to go
the holiday annually and also they are economically weaker households concerns as well.
Financial deprivation that becomes the central for almost every subjective poverty is involved as
the dimension . There are three main indicators that are taken as proxies such as loan payments,
ability to face unexpected expenses ,hire as well as purchase instalments (Nunes, Pereira and
Morais-Almeida, 2017) United Kingdom household find it difficult to make the ends meets.
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Within 2016 ,around 37% of the population tells that their existing incomes was too small to
face unexpected expenses as well as 17% struggled to make the ends meet. The most of the
multidimensional poverty indicators highlights financial stress that are related to the housing
facilities as well as Household's capacity to pay mortgage repayment,rents and utilizing bills.
Thus, it considers as the most progressively category of growing that has 73% of the population
have housing concerns as a burden. The last focus on the multidimensional poverty indicators on
the area such as areas of the health inequalities , specifiedly how much inequality within the
health sector is associated with socio-economic unequal structure. There are health indicators
such as access to the dental services, access to the medical services and limitation within the
daily activities because of the health problem.
The third indicators also indicates that the user data regarding on the persons self-
analysis as they have the ongoing physical well as mental health problems such as illness and
disability (Pisani and et.al 2016)The evaluation reveals that there are around 4.3 % of the
population that are unable to meet the medical needs and also around 4.2 % unmet the problems
regarding the Dental health needs. Due to the health problems limitations within activities reach
worrying level 22% of the people who are aged 16.
The policymakers of the U.K recognizes and identifies economically deprives the
households with more accuracy as it analyses the hardship experienced within the United
Kingdom to explore some social- economic categories that possess higher risks of poverty
within the domains of multiple life( Nunes, Pereira and Morais-Almeida, 2017). This can open
the various lines of debates in the policy implication as well as assesses about the living
conditions that can be declining. To allow the policymakers to recognize economically that
deprives the household more accurately as it evaluates the various hardship experienced within
the United Kingdom.
Across the dimension regarding the income poverty as well as multidimensional
poverty,there is another an inequality that is gender inequality effect as women are more likely
to fact the deprivations within the multiple life domains as households are partitioned as per the
marital status and also the multidimensional poverty. The outcome suggests that as compare to
the married or double people single or without having children have been higher probability of
deprived within multiple life domains (Artiga. and Hinton, 2019)
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Also in addition to this owner occupancy is also most of the people aspirations within
Britain is generally assigned through better conditions. That can also be one attributed with the
accumulation regarding its association within the accumulation. Furthermore, education is also
becomes is also concerned as less educated as well as non-working people irrespective of
marital and gender status that have a higher probability of deprived within multiple life
domains. This not only confirms to need to highlight on education but also applies the
requirement anti-poverty game plan within the United Kingdom. that involves the advancement
of skills as well as education. Also, these kinds of policy agenda also be committed to the
investments to improve labour markets and educational levels opportunities (Abel-Smith,
2018).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded as, social class of an individual or group is
measured as a combination of the income, education and occupation. Social Economics focused
the relationship between the social behaviour as well as economics. It determines how ethics,
social norms and social philosophies impacts behaviour of the consumers and also shape the
public buying strands. Poverty is considered as the ongoing problems facing within all societies.
There are various ways to exploring the issuers with the concerns of inequality and also the
unequal allocation of benefits versus non benefits The measurement of poverty raises the crucial
issues that should be conceptualized. Also in addition to this owner occupancy is also most of the
people aspirations within Britain is generally assigned through better conditions. That can also be
one attributed with the accumulation regarding its association within the accumulation.
Furthermore, education is also becomes is also concerned as less educated as well as non-
working people irrespective of marital and gender status that have a higher probability of
deprived within multiple life domains. Thus, in this report it has been discussed that Socio-
Economic class difference in terms of poverty, occupation , Equality trust and many more.
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REFERENCES
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Dueñas and et.al, 2016. A review of chronic pain impact on patients, their social environment
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Pisani and et.al 2016. Major osteoporotic fragility fractures: Risk factor updates and societal
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