Week 5 Reading

I found this reading especially interesting because I always think that socioeconomic status plays a very important role in the disparity in women health. Especially, as the writer says, almost half of all minority children are growing in poverty. This results in the inevitable disparity in these next generations. The socioeconomic status is really a broad idea and this is always a problem because it requires many elements to be considered in the same if the government want to solve it. These elements include historical, social, economic, political, and cultural element. The hardest part I believe is probably the cultural part. I mean, sometimes even the government provides free services to these groups, if this service is contradicting to their religious belief, those people will definitely reject. I remembered one of the readings i did during the summer. It is story about a hmong girl. In this story, there is a wall between hmong's traditional understanding of medicine and treatment and western countries' advanced technology. This barrier somewhat caused the death of that girl. As a result, it is clear to see how important to deal with cultural and religious belief.