Article and Poverty

After reading the articles, I wanted to introduce a new idea. I have discussed multiple times in my posts the idea of isolation and domestic violence. I think this could directly relate to health and minorities. For some Latino families, it is possible that they have moved to the United States from somewhere else. Sometimes in domestic violence situations, there is the idea of isolation and moving the woman out of her comfort zone where she does not know language, resourceful information, etc. By not properly acculturating, which typically persecutors try to avoid and to continue the isolation, women can easily become depressed or gain other mental and physical health issues. This obviously is a dominant effect towards health in our country. Domestic violence does not discriminate, but being that there is a correlation between health and minorities, I would assume domestic violence does play a role in this concept that Latinos may have poorer health.

On a separate note, today in class we discussed the difference of absolute poverty and relative poverty. Absolute poverty is the actual resources that one has, such as income or education. Whereas relative poverty is one’s poverty in relation to other people. For example, if everyone in a community makes a dollar a day, you could have a better outcome in certain situations because your relative poverty is lower. Or, in the US if you make $20,000 per year, and you live in an area where that is the average income, you will also be in a better situation with lower relative poverty than if you made $20,000 and lived in a place where everyone $100,000 the relative poverty would be very high and create a negative effect on society, creating conflict-“the haves and haves not”, being conflict theory.