Dear Chidinma,

I'll be happy to accept you in Russia. For sure it is the best place - to fish for answers to all the problems you mentioned in relation wth K. Marx & Co. 

Best Regards,           Leonid

Dear Napoleon:

With greatest pleasure I read your short essay, where every word is true .

And I would very much like you to read 2 books

1. "Moscow 2042" by Vladimir Voinovich.which  is a 1986 novel (translated into English from Russian 1987)         AND

2. "The Island of Crimea" by Vassily Aksyonov (Vintage Books, 1984 - Fiction)

which describe the development of Marx's ideas and are a brilliant illustration of the last passage of your essay.

Best Wishes,                                Leonid 

thanks a lot Napoleon, your short write up provided me with all I wanted and am glad to say I can now link it properly.

the proletariat being the subordinated class, worked hard on daily basis and yet they remain poor, this condition predisposes them to unhealthy behaviours such as smoking, alcoholism and drug abuse.

they are being paid less and can thus not afford proper diet resulting in nutritional deficiencies as well as obesity. they can barely live in good houses and thus are exposed to biological hazards to health, the present government even disburses lesser medical facilities to such slum areas thus people in this class cannot have access to proper medical treatment, which is termed "symbolic violence" by Pierre Bourdieu. (1930).

in places like Africa for instance anti-malaria and anti-biotic resistance is the order of the day because people from low social economic class cannot afford to go to the hospital, hence they practice self prescription and purchase drugs from cheap medicine shops.

the US, on the other hand practice private health care and while the bourgeoisie class as proposed by Marx,  are able to afford proper health care, the proletariat suffer and die in illness. even though the united kingdom claims to reduce inequalities by the provision of the free NHS, there is still issue of discrimination of the marginalized group as every research still reveals that the poorest health is among those from the lower class.

thanks loads for the clue.

Dear George:

No surprise.

Napoleon knows Russian language and perfectly understands Russia and other Slavic peoples and their history 

Leonid

hello George, I buy your idea as well which could make my write up a bit critical because even if Karl Marx opened our eyes to the problems  inequalities, his proposed method of tackling it which is resolution has completely failed therefore It could be suitable to say that class division is something that will always exist (Pierre Bourdieu, 1930) and even if Durkheim suggested that fuctionalism is essential because the role play (Goffman) of all strata of social class is beneficial, the todays world government should put into considerations the wider socio-economic determinants of health and make health care services affordable, accessible and available

thanks a lot George for your contribution.

Have a look at the work of Vicente Navarro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicen%C3%A7_Navarro

and this book

Lesley Doyal ( 1979) The Political Economy of Health

and this one

Nancy Krieger Epidemiology and the People's Health: Theory and Context

and the final chapter of this tries to argue for a materialist epidemiology

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234015155_Health_Disease_and_Society_A_Critical_Medical_Geography

Book Health, Disease and Society: A Critical Medical Geography

Hi Chidinma

Try a web search using the term 'critical theory health inequalities' and you should get some useful hits. For example, here is one article that came up on the first page:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4547054/

best wishes with it

Peter

Buenos días.

Estimada Chidinma. El análisis de la relación de clase social e inequidades en salud ha sido un asunto que ha preocupado al pensamiento de América Latina. Te sugiero revisar autores como Jaime Breilh quien ha intentado, desde un enfoque predominantemente estructural-marxista, proponer tanto teórica como metodológicamente la relación salud y clase social. 

Éxitos en tu trabajo,

Yadira

Breilh's work lacks empirical demonstration. It's 100% ideological point of view.

Hola, en el ámbito Lationamericano Jaime Breilh ha sido uno de los abanderados de las determinaciones sociales de la salud y ha trabajado desde la perspectiva marxista la clase social, tratando de operacionalizarla. 

Por otro lado, Erik Olin Wrigth, estadounidense ha hecho grandes contribuciones al estudio de la clase social en el capitalismo contemporáneo. Te recomiendo estos dos autores.