ENGL 140 Signature Assignment (Argumentative Essay) The Argumentative Essay assignment is broken into two key parts: Part A: Argumentative Essay Components (due each week on Sunday): Part B: Argument

Running Head: LINK BETWEEN BAD HEALTH AND POVERTY 0

Link between Bad Health and Poverty

Daniel Placeres

West Coast University

Poor health for many people across the world is closely associated with social, economic and political injustices. We can argue but it’s highly plausible that we’ll never have the right answer to what links good and evil. Providing education is one of the effective ways to reduce poverty in communities (Wickham et al., 2016). We’ve found concrete evidence that to break the link is this missing yet valuable point. The main control behind this link is governments. Some governments make a facade that promotes “Free Health Care” (Prior & Manley, 2017). While this appreciated, their agenda is being helped. Poverty increases the risk of poor health because poor people cannot access balanced diets, cannot access medical covers and have poor access to healthcare facilities.

Poverty increases the chances of poor health. People from poor communities are unable to access a well-balanced diet (Gill, 2017). Mostly, if not always a person who’s in poverty will have insufficient food supply to sustain a normal life. Furthermore, people from poor communities cannot be able to access a well-balanced diet because their primary objective is to poor something on the table. In turn this type of condition leads to erratic decisions and behavior. Some of these behaviors can significantly affect their health. Poor health can mean bad hygiene physically. Poor interpersonal skills leave them poor socially.

In addition, people from poor communities are unable to acquire medical covers which have increasingly become too expensive. As a result, when they fall sick, they are unable to seek medical help. It is also very expensive to seek medical health services when one does not have health covers. This is because the costs associated with such treatments are significantly high for people in poor communities. The government treats all people equally when it comes to access of medical covers. This is however not fair as poverty-stricken people cannot afford them. For people with higher socioeconomic status, such medical covers are not expensive (Beatty et al., 2020).

Poverty stricken people are unable to access healthcare services due to the long distance between their homes and healthcare facilities. Most people in poor communities’ work for long hours with very low pay (Bosch et al., 2019). As a result, the wages they earn are all directed to buying food. They therefore lack enough money to travel to far places where hospitals are located. In addition, the government has not subsidized the cost of travel for people who have low income. Such people stay at home and hope their disease will heal naturally because the cost associated with seeking medical help in unbearable for them. Additionally, those healthcare facilities that are accessible to people from poor communities are not well equipped to provide quality healthcare services.

In conclusion, Poverty increases the risk of poor health because poor people cannot access balanced diets, cannot access medical covers and have poor access to healthcare facilities. When people are unable to access balanced diet, they tend to develop health issues. In addition, medical covers are way too expensive for poverty-stricken individuals making it impossible for them to access healthcare services. Finally, the long distance between the homes of low-income earners and the healthcare facilities makes it difficult for such individuals to seek medical attention whenever they develop health issues.

References

Beatty, K., Egen, O., Dreyzehner, J., & Wykoff, R. (2020). Poverty and Health in Tennessee. Southern Medical Journal, 113(1), 1-7. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kate_Beatty/publication/338365726_Poverty_and_Health_in_Tennessee/links/5e172fbb4585159aa4c0807e/Poverty-and-Health-in-Tennessee.pdf

Bosch, J., Palència, L., Malmusi, D., Marí-Dell'Olmo, M., & Borrell, C. (2019). The impact of fuel poverty upon self-reported health status among the low-income population in Europe. Housing Studies, 34(9), 1377-1403. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02673037.2019.1577954

Gill, H. (2017). Health Outcomes and their Connection to Poverty Levels. Stanford Journal of Public Health, 6, 31-31.Retrieved from http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/sjph/article/view/1236

Prior, L., & Manley, D. (2017). Poverty and health: thirty years of progress? Poverty and social exclusion in the UK: Vol. 2: Volume 2-The dimensions of disadvantage, 2, 203. Retrieved from https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YFI8DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA203&dq=does+poverty+cause+poor+health&ots=OhMvuZVN2N&sig=gDqFqUnq89GzDMSwnby62A2ohXI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=does%20poverty%20cause%20poor%20health&f=false

Wickham, S., Anwar, E., Barr, B., Law, C., & Taylor-Robinson, D. (2016). Poverty and child health in the UK: using evidence for action. Archives of disease in childhood, 101(8), 759-766. Retrieved from https://adc.bmj.com/content/101/8/759.short