Vunerable Populations and Health Inequalities

Poverty and Social Inequality To Healthcare Services

Poverty and social exclusion is a multidimensional problem that is visible in the access to health services , leading to inequality in service delivery . Due to low income of certain category of people they cannot get proper health care services to their acquired ailments Poverty which is a teething task to eradicate globally is one that has rendered people to live a life of lack and want , and this phenomenon had greatly hindered the growth and well being of the state that is highly plagued with

this social vices . Social exclusion goes hand in hand with poverty , in the sense that some people are being excluded from some services and facilities as a result of their impoverish status Social exclusion reduces the productive capacity- and rate of poverty reduction- of the society as a whole (DFID , 2005 .This exclusion comes in the following forms exclusion from adequate income or resources labour market exclusion service exclusion and exclusion from social relations (Gordon , 2000 . Also , exclusion of people from social services tends to increase the poverty level . In this view UNESCO (1995 , has it that Exclusion from organized labour markets is now one of the principle causes of poverty in the world . The growth of the informal sector , which is often viewed as an alternative to regular salaried employment , offers to millions of people wishing to work little more than unstable , subsistence- level activities that are characterized by low productivity . In to move the country forward , both economically and socially , there is the need to adequately tackle the social menace of poverty and social exclusion

Furthermore , to create equality to access to healthcare services is creating a harmonious society where productivity is enhanced and economic growth achieved through healthy populace

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Adger , W .N Kelly , P...