Health Inequality Activities
Testing your Knowledge about Health Disparities
This activity works in class if your students have access to computers. If they do not, you can do this as an at-home assignment. Do not tell students which of these are true or false.
Directions: Research the following statements to establish if they are true or false.
In groups discuss the reasons behind the patterns you have found.
1. Statistically, men are more likely to suffer from mental illness than women. (false)
2. Among children, there is no class difference in rates of mental disorders (false)
3. Children from social class I and II eat more fruit and fewer sweets than children from social class IV and V (true)
4. Ethnic minority groups from Caribbean backgrounds have particularly high levels of strokes (true)
5. Ethnic minority groups from the Indian subcontinent have the highest level of heart disease (true)
6. The New Right believe that the working classes have worse health than the middle classes because of their lifestyles (true)
7. Men in professional careers are more likely to suffer coronary heart disease than unskilled manual male workers (false)
8. Males in the lowest social classes are around three times more likely to suffer from schizophrenia than in the highest social classes (true)
From NGFL CYMRY
Directions: Research the following statements to establish if they are true or false.
In groups discuss the reasons behind the patterns you have found.
1. Statistically, men are more likely to suffer from mental illness than women. (false)
2. Among children, there is no class difference in rates of mental disorders (false)
3. Children from social class I and II eat more fruit and fewer sweets than children from social class IV and V (true)
4. Ethnic minority groups from Caribbean backgrounds have particularly high levels of strokes (true)
5. Ethnic minority groups from the Indian subcontinent have the highest level of heart disease (true)
6. The New Right believe that the working classes have worse health than the middle classes because of their lifestyles (true)
7. Men in professional careers are more likely to suffer coronary heart disease than unskilled manual male workers (false)
8. Males in the lowest social classes are around three times more likely to suffer from schizophrenia than in the highest social classes (true)
From NGFL CYMRY
Comparing the Health Across time
Explain to your students that obesity is becoming an epidemic in this country. So many people are overweight. Ask the students to work in groups of three to brainstorm how they think our lifestyle is contributing to the overall weight gain in America. Talk as a class about some of the ideas the students thought of.
Using the ideas your students came up with, have them research how that aspect of American life compares to how it was fifty years ago. For example, if one group said that Americans watch too much TV, have them compare the amount of time spent watching TV today and fifty years ago. Come back together and discuss the results.
Sample Worksheet:
Using the ideas your students came up with, have them research how that aspect of American life compares to how it was fifty years ago. For example, if one group said that Americans watch too much TV, have them compare the amount of time spent watching TV today and fifty years ago. Come back together and discuss the results.
Sample Worksheet: