INEQUALITY IN CHILD HEALTH

Inequality in Child Health



Inequality in Child Health

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to describe that the main problem in the children's health care is the inequalities in the healthcare provisions. This paper discusses that how this inequality in provision can have an impact on the diabetes. Health inequality is a term of differences in health status across individuals in a population (Silberfeld, 2009, p. 12). It presents a conceptual framework for the measurement of health inequality, influenced by the long tradition of measurement of income inequality. Researchers suggest that the ideal for a population would be to achieve equality in individual healthy life expectancy. Healthy life expectancy is the number of years in full health that an individual born today can expect to live.

Discuss the relationship between health beliefs and health behavior

Health belief is mainly a belief regarding your health. It is a belief of a person which he has for his health problems. On the other hand, health behavior is the act and attitude which a person has towards his health. The example of health behaviors is when a person quits smoking, decrease the alcohol consumption, starts taking healthy diets and increasing the physical activities. There is a great relationship between the health belief and health behavior. If a person, has the belief that he is healthy then his health behavior will be moderate. On the other hand, if a person has the belief that he is not healthy enough then he will give more concentration on the health and will take all the possible measures to improve and maintain his health (Jones, 2008, p. 67).

The Health Belief Model (HBM or Health Belief Model) showed interest in the areas of asthma, hypertension, diabetes and diabetes. It captures the reasons a person can have or not to follow his treatment. It is based on four beliefs: the first 2 on disease and health, on the other 2 treatments. The model assumes that for the patient to accept treatment four beliefs must be favorable:

be persuaded to be affected by the disease

believe that the disease and its consequences are serious

believe that treatment is beneficial

believe that the benefits of treatment outweigh its disadvantages (side effects, constraints, costs ...)

In the case of some chronic diseases, the disease shows few signs.

Demonstrate an awareness of alternative theories regarding the development of children's concepts of health and illness

There had been two theoretical approaches on the children's concepts of health and illness. The first approach is about the explanation of qualitative changes related to age in children's concepts of health and illness and then making the interpretation based on these changes within a Piagetian framework. Expectancy theory is the base in the second approach, and this approach has its main emphasis on the children's opinion regarding the vulnerability to the problems related to health, also to the with the health behavior relationships.

The main theory that comes under the development of children's concept of health and illness is the Piaget's theory of development (James, ...