Social Inequality In A Wealthier Community

Social inequality has a drastic effect on the community’s access to good quality healthcare, or health care access at all. Whether it be access to their primary care physician or access to mental health services, their resources are automatically reduced due to their communities social standing and less so, the geographical distance. First, I will look at both a wealthy community as well as a financially struggling community and compare their access to health education as a direct impact on the community’s social environment. I will propose that their lack of knowledge of health and their lack of education directly impacts their standard of living. Second, I will look at a community 's social environment - the violence and the resources available

Wealthier communities tend to buy foods that are expensive and those that are healthier for them to eat. Eating nutritious foods makes them reduce the risk of getting a chronic disease. Wealthier communities are more surrounded by organic, healthier whole foods. Families in low-income households tend to buy foods from fast food restaurants and more processed foods because the neighborhoods they live in tend to not have fresh produce available to them due to the poor community that they live in. Grocery stores containing fresh produce are not available to those living in poor communities. Steven H. Woolf and Paula Braveman say that, “Poor and minority neighborhoods are often ‘food deserts’ with limited access to healthy foods but numerous fast-food outlets” (Woolf & Braveman, 2011, p. 1854). Food deserts means that fresh produce is not available to those low-income households, only processed ones. Young children coming from low income households tend to buy foods in vending machines at school’s due to only being able to afford cheap snacks rather than buying healthier meals like salad. When these poor community households tend to buy processed foods, they are not informed on the bad effects this can lead to the human body. These foods will eventually cause health problems like different chronic diseases and they are unaware of the symptoms of such diseases due to the lack of education, so they are unable

The two, the wealthy community and the low-income community, live very different lifestyles. One, the wealthy community, comes into an advantage where their education and higher incomes help them in maintaining a healthy body and being able to live in safer environments and have access to a better healthcare system. Whereas, households living in poor communities tend to live in a disadvantage where their lack of education and lower incomes harms their body in not being able to know what’s good and bad for their health and also living in a harmful environment and not being able to have access to healthcare or having a minimal understanding of healthcare, putting these individuals in a