Why do welfare workers, Psychologists and health professionals need to understand the relationships between class, gender and health?

Running head : Understanding Class , Gender and Health

Understanding Class , Gender and Health

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Introduction

This contributes to a discussion on how to understand class gender and health . Understanding is a sympathetic , empathetic , or tolerant in recognizing somebody 's or something 's character and situation . Differences in view on class , gender and health are social factors such as powerlessness , access to resources , and constrained roles . The social workers , psychologist and health professionals are contributor to these issues on understanding class , gender and health

(Phillips , 2005

This will differentiate class , gender and health in different view . Will also discuss the issue on why we need to understand them and how the societies respond to these . All this can be read in the next paragraph

Differentiating Class , Gender and Health

Class is a set , or collection , group , or configuration-containing members regarded as having certain attributes or traits in common : a kind or category . Another it is a social stratum whose members share certain economic , social , or cultural character (yahoo dictionary 2006

Sex is the term used to distinguish men and women on the basis of their biological

Characteristics . Gender on the other hand refers to those distinguishing features that are socially constructed . Gender influences the control men and women have over the determinants of their health , for example their economic position and social status , and their access to resources . Gender configures both the material and symbolic positions those men and women occupy

in the social hierarchy , and shapes the experiences that condition their lives . Gender is a powerful social determinant of health that interacts with other variables such as age , family structure , income , education and social support , and with a variety of behavioral factors (WHO 2004

While health , it is a metabolic efficiency . Sickness is metabolic inefficiency . Nobody is unique combination of health and sickness . And each of us has a unique combination of abilities and disabilities , both emotional and physical (organicmdorg , 2006

Another from David and Nicole Conragan , 2006

Throughout the years , the interpretations and definitions of health have changed or been distorted and confused . Today , instead of having a health care model , most of our healing professions work from a "Sick Care System

According to Psychologist Anne Vitale (1997

Gender Identity Dis is a real and serious problem . Although we don 't know all of what may be the cause or causes of the disease that these individuals feel toward their assigned sex , we can be reasonably certain that it is connected with either a congenital irregularity , an irregularity that occurs in the first few years of childhood or some combination of the two . We also know that every individual 's sense of gender , once established , is unchangeable over the individual 's lifetime

The Issue Behind the Class , Gender and Health

Stipulated by Michael Albert (2006

The issue on class and race was existed even before the earliest civilization . The movement of this inequality exist thus many of them against it . They feel...