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This 3 page paper summarizes three articles dealing with the concept of health problems as social issues. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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considered within the total picture. This paper summarizes three articles dealing with the concept of health problems as social issues. Discussion In the first article, John Germov reveals the connection
between health and society by pointing out the disparity in the expected life span of individuals in developed and developing countries. In developed countries such as Australia, the average life
span for men is 75.9 years and for women, 81.5 years (Germov, p. 5). This is 20-30 years longer than the life span for people in some developing nations, but
when they immigrate to Australia, their life span lengthens until it corresponds to that of native Australians (Germov, p. 5). Thus it appears that it is the society in which
people life that determines how long that life will be. The connection between social conditions and disease was becoming clearer in Europe in the 1800s, when people like Friedrich Engels
found a connection between extreme poverty and illness (Germov, p. 6). Engels found that black lung, a preventable disease that afflicts miners, did not occur in mines that were well
ventilated (Germov, p. 6). "Many examples could be given of miners who moved from well-ventilated to badly ventilated mines and caught the disease" (Germov, p. 6). It was the
mine owners greed, Engels insisted, that was responsible for the disease; they didnt want to go to the expense of drilling ventilation shafts-it was easier and much less costly to
let the workers get sick (Germov, p. 6). Thus, the miners ill health was tied directly to their social class; they were workers (proletariat) while the owners were the elite
(bourgeoisie) and they were treated with contempt (Germov, p. 6). Engels also noted a large disparity in the death rates of laborers and professionals, which he attributed to the
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