Community Health
Poverty and Health in community
For this discussion, address the following points based on the reading assigned for this week. In your initial post:
- Analyze whether poverty is a cause of poor health in a community or whether poor health is a cause of poverty.
- Analyze some of the health issues found in a community of lower-socioeconomic status as well as the health issues found in communities of higher socioeconomic status.
- Discuss the differences and similarities between the issues found in both communities.
- Utilize at least two scholarly sources, in addition to the course text, to support your points.
For this discussion, address the following points based on the reading assigned for this week. In your initial post:
- Analyze whether poverty is a cause of poor health in a community or whether poor health is a cause of poverty.
- Analyze some of the health issues found in a community of lower-socioeconomic status as well as the health issues found in communities of higher socioeconomic status.
- Discuss the differences and similarities between the issues found in both communities.
- Utilize at least two scholarly sources, in addition to the course text, to support your points.
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Poverty causes poor health in community because people feed on unbalanced. That is. The diet lacks proteins, vitamins, carbohydrates, fruits, fats and oils which are necessary for body growth. Therefore, they may end up suffering from diseases like malnutrition. This is because poverty draws the accessory of those people living in lower socioeconomic status from visiting hospitals regularly after they are sick. Therefore, poverty leads to poor health in a community because people do not have enough money to spend in both home and at hospital (Holtz, 2010).
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