Health Issues and Society Essay
For this assignment, you will write a two-page essay discussing a social problem connected to health or health care.
Examples of paper topics are as follows: unequal access to health care, universal health care, work-life balance, smoking, substance abuse, obesity, COVID-19, mental health, veteran’s health care, affordability of health care, planned parenthood, and eldercare.
Your essay should address the prompts below.
Provide some background on the social problem. Discuss how socioeconomic inequality connects to the problem. Discuss how one of the sociological perspectives applies to the issue. Apply the concept of sociological imagination to the problem.
Discuss at least one solution to help alleviate the problem.
Discuss how the social problem you discussed impacts you. What steps can you take to help address the social problem discussed in your paper?