Topic > The Pros and Cons of Health Inequality - 1718

Good health is arbitrary and means different things to different people. Realistically, people make behavioral choices that can negatively impact good health. The new approach should focus on the availability and variety of goods and resources so that people can make and personalize choices for themselves. Good health is the result of a just society and the distribution of primary social goods can serve as an indicator of health equity (Asada, 2005). We start from the abolition of the biomedical model and the adoption of a model based on social medicine. The biomedical model is based on the biological treatment of disease and does not focus on prevention. The social model differs from the biomedical model because it includes psychological and social factors. This will influence providers, policymakers and the most effective ways people communicate about their health. Economics need not be ignored to adequately address health inequalities, but must be formally assessed using cost-effectiveness analysis (Woodward & Kawachi, 2000). A society-based model is less expensive than the biomedical model because it does not rely on expensive technology. The biomedical model is profit-oriented. It has allowed pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer to sell their generic drugs like fluconazole, an antifungal used by patents against AIDS on a weekly basis, in Africa for an overly inflated price of $20.00 a pill when the average income is 120,000. 00 dollars (MacDonald, 2007, p.87). . The socially based model is open to alternative methods of medicine and practice, making it more convenient for developing nations and others in need. The desired result will be that medicine will no longer have a gender and healthcare will not be subject to the social