Income is power

It is clear that good health is associated with having a good job, having a higher level of education, having more income and living in good neighborhoods where there are amenities such as hospitals, clinics, food marts with fresh and good produce, walk ways and trails, tennis courts, swimming pools, golf course etc. Thus access to these amenities enables or help one to live a better life style as compare to people with no access to these amenities. In developing countries, just a few people are able to afford good health care. They use other alternatives such as local herbal medicines for their health which might not be the best to use in this modern era and its mainly due to the fact that they do not have enough income to even buy food to eat let alone use their income for hospital visits and check-up routines, etc.
In developing countries such as Ghana, health care professionals can come together with the government to help educate the general public on the importance of sanitation for example because lack of education has cause most of the people with lower SES to live a lifestyle that does not value the importance of good sanitation for example and due to that has cause a lot of some preventable diseases in their community where as this same issue of poor sanitation is not a problem at communities where people with higher SES live.
Availability of jobs are very important since it’s the most and common way to earn income, therefore lack of it raises a major problem such that, even if there is enough infrastructure and the people in the community have a lower SES due to unemployment, they still will not be able to afford for all the use of the amenities available let alone be able to maintain the amenities.
In developed countries such as the US, there are available amenities such as hospitals and clinics for example in areas with lower income but due to lack of enough capital most of the people living in lower SES area are not able to afford for all the necessary care and services to be able to live a healthy lifestyle. A major problem is having access to get affordable healthy food staffs to eat. It is quiet expensive to buy healthy produce as compared to buying junk food and visiting a fast food restaurant and a healthy choice restaurant.
The system to me is able to drain a lot on families who are in the middle and lower class because there are so much bills to pay leaving just a small portion for health care, that is unless there is a situation regarding one’s health before there is a need to visit the hospital.
Transportation in a country can play a major role in having access to health care because if there is not the means to get to the hospital due to lack of accessible roads, lack of affordable public transportation then how then will these people with low SES who can’t afford for a car on their own let alone pay their monthly insurance, property taxes on the car and all the maintenance that comes along when using the car for instance.
SES has a big toll on health care. Education, availability of jobs, access to haelth care, healthy foodstuffs, physical activity options, access to affordable transportation system can help in reducing the problem that comes along with having low SES. If there is an equal distribution of access to good paying jobs for example it will help raise the income level of people who are in the lower-income class to increase their purchasing power on choosing to have a better health care and living a better life style that is if they even know how to choose what is better. Being able to have high level of education to me can help solve a lot of problem associated with SES in both developed and now developing countries.
Money is power and we all have to be able to enjoy that power to live a better lifestyle by choosing what is best for us all.