How important is Social Health? Social differences

We take as a main reference the children, who are more affected by the inadequate provision of food, the deficient health systems and the ineffective or deficient medical attention. At this point, countries like Sweden enjoy the lowest figures of infant mortality, because there only nine out of every thousand newborns die before reaching their first year of life.

But if we see the other side of the coin in contrast to this surprising figure, in Latin America one out of every thirteen newborns dies; one in seven in the Indian subcontinent and one in five in certain parts of Africa.

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The difference is overwhelming in terms of the chances of survival of the smallest, this clearly indicates the drastic distances between the poor and the rich in terms of health education.

The indices corresponding to income move simultaneously with what the per capita income levels express. Almost all those societies in which the averages of life are above the seventy years have an average income of thousands of dollars per year.

In contrast, the peoples whose life expectancy is below fifty years, earn on average no more than a few hundred dollars a year.

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However, by analyzing the comparisons between mortality rates worldwide, it is concluded that national wealth does not always determine the level of health.

Levels of income, social or economic discrimination, as well as differences in lifestyles often affect the health of sub-groups, ethnic or cultural. For example: North Americans of color show a tendency to die younger than whites, equally people who consume a diet devoid of meat and low in fat abhor tobacco and alcohol, suffer less cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Due to the disparity that exist in the average figures of life span of men and women, most married women have to pay as an inevitable price long years of widowhood. For biological and social reasons, women tend to live longer than men with a difference of six to eight years, which can be partially explained in relation to living habits.

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There are more chances that we men are more smokers than women, and likewise, we drink more than them, exposed to toxic substances.

Although I know women who drink and smoke more than any man haha

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From a genetic point of view, women seem destined to live longer than men, and particularly many fewer women than men suffer heart attacks before entering middle age.

The special burden borne by women belonging to the group with the least resources (maternity in a context of poor nutrition and inadequate sanitary measures, when they do not exist) partially deprive them of that hereditary advantage they enjoy in terms of health.

Mortality rates differ when comparisons are made between rich and poor countries. The biggest killers in poor nations are diseases infections: Pneumonia, tuberculosis, bronchitis, influence, measles, etc.

The figures for mortality in the most developed countries have come to reflect the presence of only two categories of infectious diseases as causes of death: cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Cardiovascular diseases are the main health problem and the main cause is death among middle-aged men and elderly people of one sex or the other. Cancer, which takes about a fifth of lives in the most advanced countries, ranks second as a health maintenance challenge.

Malnutrition, infections that spread using human excrement as a vehicle and those that spread through the air, have been qualified as a basic model of the disease of poverty.

Diets deficient in calories, proteins or some other element essential for nutrition can be the cause of death in certain cases; But chronic malnutrition, which punishes several hundred million people around the world, lives many lives indirectly as an accomplice of infectious diseases.

A cursed alliance established between malnutrition and infections is today the main cause of the frequency of deaths in early childhood, and as a consequence of this should be considered the most threatening health problem that weighs on humanity.