Answer to Question #251227 in Sociology for Holi

Question

What factors do you think contribute to the disparities in health among ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender groups in your country? What diseases are the most stigmatized? Which are the least? Is this different in different cultures or social classes.

Answer 1

White Americans have better overall health than racial and ethnic minorities. Economic determinants, education, location and neighborhood, environment, inferior quality care, insufficient access to care, inability to navigate the system, provider ignorance or bias, and stress can all contribute to health disparities.

The socioeconomic level and race or ethnicity have been linked to unnecessary surgeries, avoidable hospitalizations, and untreated diseases.

Mental problems, AIDS, sexual diseases, leprosy, and some skin ailments are among the diseases that are stigmatized.

Culture has a significant impact on health. It has an impact on people's conceptions of health, illness, and mortality, as well as their ideas about disease origins, health promotion strategies, how illness and pain are experienced and expressed, where patients seek care, and the forms of therapy they prefer.