When reading anything about public health, it’s almost impossible for me not to get absolutely livid reading about not only all the natural obstacles epidemiologists face but also all the the social and political obstacles they face from people trying to maintain the shape of the current social ladder.
With the introduction of public health in society there has been significant improvement in health for all but social inequalities remain. Yet it seems as science modernized there has grown a significant need from certain groups of people to separate health and socioeconomic and political reform. This in result, leads to a focus on personal responsibility in health. It becomes your own fault if you cannot maintain your health.
If it’s your own fault you are unhealthy, why is there so much inequality in health among the different socioeconomic classes? Are they implying one can determine how responsible a person is by their place on the socioeconomic ladder? Ludicrous.
