SOC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Universal Health Care, Gini Coefficient, Whitehall Study
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What is, why focus on the social gradient: focusing on tackling poverty by providing clean water, food, access to healthcare, etc is not enough because these resources are socially determined. Who gets resources is socially determined within class as well: a social gradient is always present. Life expectancy globally ranges from 34 to 81. 9 and within country, life expectancy can differ up to. 20 years in the us: approaches to fight this: public health, improve medical systems, reduce poverty, social determinants of health. If health of a population suffers, it is an indicator that the set of social arrangements needs to change. 62 countries had better maternal health than the us. Us matches with armenia , which is just ahead of georgia. This shows healthcare is not enough: problems with health inequities, differences within countries, differences between countries, poor social policies and programs, unfair economic arrangements and bad politics are responsible for the "unequal distribution of health-damaging experiences.
