Video Reflection
14 years ago
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Socioeconomic inequalities and technology and their affect on health
I recently came across an article that attributed more health mortalities to the less educated. People with less financial resources, including being restricted from technology, unstable employment, and with little or no health insurance, and do not have a high school education have a profound increase in the mortality rate of all death causes. Meanwhile, a contrary study was conducted among "educated" men and women in which the mortality rate was significantly lower. I thought this related to what we have discussed in class not only on a community level, but a global level.
2 comments:
in that first sentence health insurance is the real key. people without health insurance will just not go to a hospital when they are sick because they feel like they will get turned away. they wait and wait as their condition gets worse until they ultimately have no choice but to go to the hospital but by then its too late. Also, do you know where these studies were conducted? I think location would definetely play a part in this study.
I am sure health insurance does play a major role in the mortality rate. The article also went on to describe that educating people about various illnesses such as HIV has reduced the mortality rate. I think for this study to be valid and effective, a single location would not be used. It was not stated in the article, which makes me think that there was no central location and that a variety of places/people were studied.
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