RESEÑA SALUD

Health injustices

Pedro Magro, Alexia Barrios ,Carlos Borja ,Camilo Villegas, Esteban Segura

1ºA Bachillerato

health injustices

It is the problem that different types of people have in accessing the different basic needs related to health. This inequality can be related to some injustices such as, for example: by gender, by nationality, which usually happens when there are no professionals in this field or when not having enough hospitals to provide it, sexual orientation or physical disabilities,

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2. Diference of the atention quality: the people of the diferent socioeconomic groups receive medical atention of unequal quality, which can affect your health outcomes.

What are the health problem?

1.limited access of health service : many communities, especially in rural areas or in areas with low resources, haven’t access of hospitals or Appropriate clinicals.

What are the health problem?

5. Discrimination and bias in the medical atention: many groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, can battle discrimination in the health system, this affect the health quality and atention whith them recived.

What are the health problems?

3. lack of health education: The lack of information and education about health and prevention can lead to risk behaviors and bad manage pf the illness.

What are the health problem?

4. economic wall: the higch cost pf the medical atention y probably prohibite for many people, this is a impediment for find a necessary treatment.

What are the health problems?

1️⃣ Limited access to healthcare services: In rural or low-resource areas, hospitals and proper clinics are often unavailable or out of reach. 2️⃣ Inequality in quality of care: The quality of medical attention varies by socioeconomic status, severely impacting health outcomes. 3️⃣ Lack of health education: Without proper health and prevention information, people engage in risky behaviors and poorly manage illnesses.4️⃣ Economic barriers: The high cost of medical care prevents many from getting the treatment they need. 5️⃣ Discrimination and bias: Vulnerable groups, like racial or ethnic minorities, face unequal treatment in healthcare systems, affecting the quality of care they receive.

Poster

If you choose to focus your work on a work of art you can nalyse works of art (paintings, films, songs, photographs) that address the issue from here Examples might include:

2. Study Works of Art:

This films talk about health inecuality

Miss evers boys

It recounts the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a real case of medical injustice against African Americans.

Sicko

A documentary that examines the U.S. healthcare system and its inequalities in comparison to other countries.

- How does social inequality affect people in their daily lives?It can limit people's way of life by limiting the resources they have and the acces to a good life

- Why is art a powerful tool to make these differences visible?Because most paintings show the real world and the situations in that moment and it would help a lot to realize the big social diferences that exist.

- What can young people do to combat social inequalities in their community?They can do public protests and campaings to fight the inequalities and, also, in the future because young people have a long lifetime ahead