High levels of illness are more common in areas of low social class, areas of high unemployment and environmental pollution. Lower life expectancy is also more common in areas of poverty. The government do not tackle these problem areas because of cost and also because the more advantaged would end up footing the bill which would place them at a disadvantage. Social classes will always show differences when related to health and ill health in society. The Feminist Approach This approach looks very strongly into the impact of social inequalities on women's health especially concerning child birth and contraception, this
History has proven that people want assistance in ending their life because their quality of life is no longer viable. When health care only prolongs the agony of an illness or disease and the ultimate consequence is they will die, the benefits are no longer in favor for our
The social perspectives on health and social care explaining health and ill health: Functionalism: The approach to considering health and illness derives from the work of Talcott Parsons. He saw sickness as a social state and a potential threat to social order. In his view, if people of society declared themselves ill, specific rights and responsibilities came with their new role. The rights were as follows: To be exempt from normal social obligations, for example sick people not allowed to school, college or any social functions. Sick people should be cared for.
Perhaps Rosenhan was being too hard on psychiatric hospitals, especially when it is important for them to play safe in their diagnosis of abnormality because there is always an outcry when a patient is let out of psychiatric care and gets into trouble. If you were to go to the doctors complaining of stomach aches how would you expect to be treated? Doctors and psychiatrists are more likely to make a type two error (that is, more likely to call a healthy person sick) than a type one error (that is, diagnosing a sick person as healthy) When Rosenhan did his study the psychiatric classification in use was DSM-II. However, since then a new classification has been introduced which was to address itself largely to the whole problem of unreliability - especially unclear criteria. It is argued that
Using xenotransplantation as a therapeutic option to rid the problem of poor organ donor numbers and low rate of organ transplants is a poor solution. Still at an experimental level, xenotransplantation poses many health risks on both individuals receiving the transplants and the human population (Rubaltelli et al, 2008). A major issue is rejection of the transplanted material by the recipient’s body. The recipient can either experience hyperacute rejection, where the donated tissue
These professionals should understand the importance of self-care to avoid burnout. After all it is difficult to help people when suffering from burnout. It is unethical to treat clients while suffering from burnout. The ethical principles of the NASW, ACA, APA, and the AAMFT, clearly states that burnout impairs the ability to treat the client competently and that the therapist should consult a colleague and take remedial action before assisting any clients. This incompetence can cause considerable harm to vulnerable clients (Zur, Ph.D., n.d.).
The purpose of this paper is to discuss that as a patient’s life deteriorates care is no longer able to improve a patient’s quality of life but their projected outcome is thought to be a continued degeneration. It is further considered to be in the best interest of the patient and their family to terminate active care. Also, ethical issues need to be addressed concerning what is right for the patient and how making decisions on withdrawing care affects nursing. As stated in Hickey and Montgomery (2009) “with the continued growth of technology, it is difficult to determine if the patient ‘truly benefits’ from such advances”. “Truly benefits” will be used to mean the patient will, in time, have an improved quality of life (Hickey and Montgomery, 2009).
“Many physicians say they would be clouding their roles as healers if they helped patients to die” (Buchanan 36.) Physicians even take the Hippocratic Oath, which states that “a physician promises to help the sick and never to cause harm” (Buchanan 36.) As Daniel E. Lee, a reporter for the Hastings Center, says “Meaning and hope are possible in all of life’s situations, even in the midst of suffering” (17.) If the United States were to nationally legalize assisted suicide, it would be a disaster, not only because the way it would go against our morals, but the way it would negatively effect today’s society. “Janet, Sherry , Marjorie, and Susan were not terminal by accepted medical definition…[they] were not Kevorkian’s patients in any traditional sense.
Materialist and structural explanation Due to data gotten from statistics, this explanation supports the idea that social factors like gender, ethnicity and class play an important role on the impact on health. It explains the level of health patterns and inequalities in the population between the social classes. However a weakness is that believes people should not be responsible for the risky lifestyle choices they make and also believe that people do not have the power to their health experience. The Materialist explanation concentrates on the hazards in society and to which some people have no choice but to be exposed eg the lower classes are exposed to more unhealthy environments because they do more dangerous work, have poorer housing, have fewer resources available to secure good health and are unable to use the health services. * -------------------------------------------------
The Overlooked Connection between Social Needs and Good Health summary of findings from a survey of america’s physicians December 2011 health care’s blind side Summary of FINDINGS A national survey reveals that physicians believe unmet social needs are directly leading to worse health for Americans — and that patients’ social needs are as important to address as their medical conditions. Medical care alone cannot help people achieve and maintain good health if they do not have enough to eat, live in a dilapidated apartment without heat or are unemployed. Physicians report that their patients frequently express health concerns caused by unmet social needs beyond their control. This is health care’s blind side: Within the current