GED 407

Date: April 6, 2020

Name: Md Tanveer Hossain
ID: 191011255

Ans 1: Proximate Factor

Ans 2: Distal Factor
Ans 3: Proximate Factor
Ans 4: Distal Factor
Ans 5: Although people are provided with free healthcare services
but still a person’s income has a high effect on one’s health status.
Free healthcare is a service provided to the people after they get sick
in order to help them recover from sickness and it is also an income
related factor. There are also many other income related factors
such as one’s education, environment etc. that are also necessary for
a person to maintain a good and healthy lifestyle. Since a person
with high income has access to better education which can provide
him knowledge to prevent any health problems, and also allow him
to stay in a good neat and clean environment , but a person with less
income will usually not have access to any of these so a person with
poor income is more likely to have more health related problems or
issues than a person with high income. This is why there continues to
be significant health status differences between rich and poor
people.
Ans 6: In Bangladesh women are usually more disadvantaged than
men. Women are usually regarded to be the takecarer of the house,
children, the old and ill person of the family and are mostly
financially dependent on men. On the other hand, men are regarded
as the constructive defense of the family who has relatively higher
work participation than women and are regarded as the financial
autonomy of the family. As both women and men are poor and less
educated so both of them will be equally affected by the absence of
these factors in their lives but there is a huge difference from the
societal and cultural point of view in the roles, responsibilities
attributes and entitlements of a women and man. Womens are
always considered to be more inferior to men and also have less
access to all the income sources and less freedom compared to men
which makes them completely dependent on men so they are less
likely to get treated for the disease than men. Also the fact that men
are regarded as the income source of the family but women are only
seen to be as the takecarer of the family causes the society to
provide more importance to the health care and health facilities of
the man than that of the women and since women are financially
dependent on men and has no authority over the income sources
related to the family, it makes them even more disadvantaged than
man since they have no independent authority to take necessary
steps and treatments in order to cure their heart disease whereas
man has full authority over it. So a poor, less educated married
women with a heart disease is particularly disadvantaged than a
poor, less educated married man with a heart disease.
Ans 7: According to experts the coronavirus cannot be stopped t the
moment but in order to stop the virus from spreading they suggest
social distancing, the implementation of which can cause the
spreading to the virus to slow down. Limiting the contact of human
helps to reduce the transmission rate. Regardless the knowledge of
the corona virus a poor person is more likely to get exposed to the it
than a richer person. A poor man will face more difficulty to keep
himself under isolation during the outbreak since unlike the rich
people he has to go out to earn money in order to manage food for
his family which increases his chances of getting expose of getting
exposed to the virus and get infected by it whereas his richer brother
can rely on the savings and the food that he collected in greater
stock before the outbreak even happened so he has very less
chances to get exposed to the virus. Experts also suggests cleaning
the hand with germ killing liquids like Savlon or Hexasol can reduce
the spread of corona virus. The high demand of these anticeptics
causes their price to increase which makes it difficult for a poor
person to be able to afford to buy and use as a safety precaution
where as his rich brother can easily afford them. From earning
money to his search for food a poor man has more chances to get
exposed to a crowd gathering than his rich brother which also
increases the risk of getting infected by the virus. So a poor
educated, married man will be more disadvantaged relative to his
rich, equally educated married brother during the corona virus
outbreak.
Ans 8: Women are highly disadvantages in Bangladesh. Women are
usually regarded to be the takecarer of the house, children, the old
and ill person of the family and are mostly financially dependent on
men with no independent authority of making any sort of financial
decisions. Cancer is disease which has no cure till this date and the
only treatment for this disease is Chemotherapy which costs a lot. A
less educated, poor married women will have very less or no access
to this treatment if she has a cancer since most of the families can’t
afford to bear the cost of the treatment, also being culturally
disadvantaged in the society will make the situation even worse for
her since she wont be able to make any financial decisions by her
own so her treatment is completely depended on the decision of her
husband. On the other hand her more educated, rich married
women will have enough financial support to get the treatment for
her cancer disease due to her high family income. It is also necessary
to follow the instructions provided by the doctor in order to prevent
cancer to develop into a major stage. A less educated women is less
likely to follow the instructions provided by her doctor due to her
lack of knowledge about the consequences it might create but her
more educated sister wont have this problem because she will have
enough knowledge about the consequences that she might have to
face if she does not follow her doctors instructions.
Ans 9: A well-educated, rich man who is currently married will have
more stress and tension in his mind due to his new married life than
when he was unmarried. The sudden changes that he needs to make
in his regular life activities might increase his level of stress and
anxiety which might also cause heart disease in him. Also since he is
newly married, he will have more problems in coping up with his life
partners lifestyle and his sudden increase in responsibilities both for
his wife and their future can also boost up his stress level and anxiety
which ultimately might lead him to Heart attack. On the other hand
his equally well-educated, rich brother who is not currently married
and has enough knowledge of handling such responsibilities will not
have these problems since he has passed through these stages of
sudden changes in lifestyle and has enough experience of handling
such responsibilities and situations without panicking and getting
stressed. So a well-educated, rich man who is currently married will
be more disadvantaged than his brother who is not currently married
but is an equally well-educated rich man.
Ans 10: Social policies can have a huge positive impact on the
reduction of health disparity and improve the overall health of a
population. Policies such as providing employment to the people can
provide a source of income for the unemployed people who can then
have access to education, healthy foods and lifestyle, and all sorts of
healthcare facilities thus reducing their chances of remaining
unhealthy. Women usually are regarded as the house takecarer of a
family. Policies such as providing education to women can help
spread knowledge among the women which they can use as their
backbone to do jobs and earn money .This will help the women to
become independent enough to take any sort of financial decision
that is necessary for them in order to maintain their health which will
increase the health status in a population as well.