Describe how a disparity in the built environment may contri

Describe how a disparity in the built environment may contribute to disparities in health. Provide at least two examples (200 word minimum)

Solution

A disparity in the built environment may contribute to disparities in health because physical design of an environment using specific residential use at industrial place due to variable human social-economic status have meticulous effects on the indiviual health aspects. For example, sometimes people who have built their living physical environment at the industrial areas may influence people to become \"obesogenic\" with obesity in populations, result in health disparity compare to the people who are leaving in countryside & healthy environment. Another aspect of built environment is on population aging mainly occurs in urban population compared to rural population due demographic transitions. These disparities are mainly occurring in differences of economic status to get their health care, inability to afford for getting access to health care & in hospitals compared to rich communities

Theories of healthy lifestyle:

Max Weber has meticulously produced theories regarding healthy lifestyle followed by good health. He concluded that lifestyles are predominantly based on the people’s habits instead of people what they produce. These habits are based on socioeconomic statuses that are featured by individual life styles. Economics has prominent effect on the family dietary habits & food choices to the people in living in communities. Especially, low income families have specific influence on their dietary habits result in low nutritional status within the family members. High income families often prefer higher level of food choices including products containing high & balanced nutritional values. Therefore, low income families often relies upon vegetables as their major food choices in their daily lives compared to high income family members. Normally families with higher economy often eat high fat content and protein content food compared of low income families where higher carbohydrate and fruit content food is major preference. Therefore, public health efforts significantly in order to overcome economic deficits in the families, the major programs include The Food Stamp Program provides coupons to buy nutritious foods & provides specific dietary habits to those families with low income below certain levels.