Describe a “real life” instance of your selected social issue in a professional or a personal setting.

Describe a “real life” instance of your selected social issue in a professional or a personal setting.

Not sure if you want to use this, but we were asked to create rough draft intros and bodies for this paper please see below for the both of them.

With one of the world’s worst pandemics still lingering in today’s countries, the question that arises at this time is does wealth equal great health? With major corporations and huge salaries does that necessarily mean they are in better health than you average middle-class American? While the jobs of major corporations are filled with thousands of employees, the question is will their healthcare be able to provide the resources and assistance to make sure their employees maintain healthily? Will average Americans be given similar resources to prevent or cure the sickness of the same kind. Stress is seen more in the corporate work and considering that as a variable can contribute to these type of workers to become more exposed to catching the illness. Wealth will always be able to provide you with doors that would be closed for others, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will result in what you are hoping for. The number of foundations that provide assistance during tough times can be overwhelming but are still an avid resource to create hope in ways you can’t believe.

COVID 19 has been a pain for everyone in America. While some have benefited from this pandemic, either that means you were able to work from home, receive stimulus pay from the government, or even just being able to focus on something that they haven’t been able to focus on before due to having time on your hands. This event has changed people’s lives for the worst with the results of families catching the illness and not being able to recover. This brings me to why wealth can contribute to rectifying outcomes in your favor when you have wealth on your side. In the article ” Wealth secures health” they mention, “As you move up the socioeconomic status hierarchy, your health prospects continue to improve” (Clay, 2001, p.78). How does the social status of a major corporation employee and an average working American differ when it becomes about staying healthy? Especially during an epidemic, do the chances of the high-status corporate worker has a better chance of maintaining a healthy life with the increase of wealth? Studies have shown that “Our outcomes can’t be explained away by our diversity or blamed entirely on the poor…. high-income adults with health insurance have worse health” (Purnell, para.5). Health will always be something best seen as self-responsibility, so while you may have all the money in the world you still have to also be able to take the necessary steps in your self-care.

Also I have the link that all of this study and the two assignments required to complete the paper are already attached.

Purnell, J. Q. (2015). Financial health is public health. What It’s Worth: Strengthening the Financial Futures of Families, Communities, and the Nation. Retrieved from http://www.strongfinancialfuture.org/essays/financial-health-is-public-health/