(38) poverty as a determinant of public health /
Rodrigo Restrepo G

post from Daily Gadget on 21 March 2010 11:53:00 AM. © Daily Gadget

I've wanted to join the Blog Action Day 2008 write about poverty linked to the theme of Public Health and for that you need to start talking about the Development . But before seeking to enter an issue where economists have a large body of all variables and points of discussion. a nationwide provider of health insurance, Cinergy Health Inc. offers health coverage to families across the United States I prefer that you do your own research. However, I clarified that I can identify almost 100 with the postulates of Manfo Max-Neef, one that most economists have studied the problem of poverty in Latin America, who has defended the theory / concept of human scale development . In this sense, Max-Neef identifies different types of poverty according to different categories of human needs. And each of these types of poverty is related to a specific pathology, not just individual but collective. That is, every human need that has no corresponding satisfactor sufficient steadily and leads to problems of Public Health. I intend to develop this topic as closely as possible: Poverty Subsistence: food, housing, shelter, work, drinking water, basic sanitation, clean environments, are satisfiers of the need to work. The presence and prolonged inadequate or absence of these satisfiers, affects the physical and mental health of a community: problems of malnutrition, low birth weight, respiratory infections, intestinal and skin, depression, suicide, violence, are some of the problems of public health from coming to have a fairly high relative weight. Poverty of Protection: Social lack the protection afforded by the work, savings, insurance in general and particularly in health, access and quality of health services and a minimal social network and family impacts on the occurrence of social pathologies such as violence, alcoholism, drug addiction, social maladjustment and mental disorders. Poverty Affect: If for any reason is obstructed the ability to make friends, or non-cohabiting couple or family, mental health problems emerge, insecurity, low self-esteem, intolerance, discrimination, domestic violence. Understanding Poverty: Barriers to access to education and modern means of communication remain well oriented vicious circle that prevents the awareness of health risk factors and the consequent reaction for the search of solutions. This situation facilitates the consolidation of the myths or the exploitation by the unscrupulous. Participation Poverty: The voluntary or forced social isolation reduces the possibility of sharing the problems of the community and empowered the search of solutions, especially for populations most vulnerable life cycle. Leisure Poverty: Unable to access public spaces for recreation, entertainment, sports, or simply rest, has been instrumental in the emergence of social violence of youth gangs and drug addiction, among others. Poverty Creation: If circumstances limit the creativity, individual development can become stagnant and reduces the capacity of collective contribution to the search for solutions to the problems of Public Health. Poverty Identity: racial discrimination, political, religious or otherwise, affects self-esteem, social participation and mental health. Poverty of Freedom: If you have no awareness of equity and undermines self-determination, it falls into the risk of receiving inadequate health care and poor quality. Apart from the above, which corresponds to the dimension of having, there are variables in the dimension of being, doing and being who come to become protective factors that can help minimize some of the poverty mentioned, is in resiliency factors despite the adverse circumstances. Serious studies have shown significant epidemiological links between health and social hierarchy, which we see embodied in this concept of new forms of poverty presented by Max-Neef.