SOCIOL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Maternal Death, Infant Mortality
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In poor urban neighborhoods and rural areas, ppl may not have access to grocery stores, and may lack transportation to dress that have them. In poor urban neighborhoods, often the only sources of accessible food are convenience stores and fast food restaurants, which are unlikely to have fresh and healthy food. Lack of fresh and healthy food can lead to nutritional deficiences as well as health problems. #erts e health limited access to food are called "food deserts". Unhealthy many jobs come w/ health risks such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. First health insurance companies formed in the 1930s. During will, most companies could not raise wages, so they offered health many ppl have become ill. insurance as a tax-free benefit instead. Nail salons have recently been identified as a workplace that leads to severe health. In 2014, the affordable care act brought many changes: problems such as lung diseases, skin diseases, miscarriages and birth defects.
