Importance of social justice.

Social justice can be defined as a view where everyone is entitled to equal political, economic, and social rights (Dollarhide, Hale, & Stone?Sabali, 2021). It helps in ensuring there is equality in many aspects of society. It’s also improving the security and safety of communities and individuals.

Psychological influences of physical health and disease

Physiological influences are factors that affect individuals psychologically or socially. These are factors that are about an individual’s environment that can affect anyone mentally or physically. They include stress, hopelessness, depression, and hostility. These factors are some of the main influences of healthcare inequalities. The influences are mostly the state of mind, environmental aspects, and psychological traits that have negative connotations.

Sociocultural influences of physical health and disease

These are influences that are mostly the state of society. One of the social-cultural influences in education. Education equips you with the knowledge required to make sound decisions that can make a difference in one’s health. Another influence is the income level. This can highly determine the kind of health care someone has access to. High-income earners tend to live longer and are healthier than low-income earners (Singh et a., 2020). Additionally, they live in safe neighborhoods. Another social-cultural influence is housing. The place of living can sometimes have effects on someone’s health since some places are exposed to risks that could hugely impact your health.

Differences in healthcare and medical delivery systems related to a health outcome that is impacted by culture differently

Healthcare delivery systems could be the stake-holding organizations, it can be the combination of employer’s groups, government agencies, providers of care, and insurance companies. The medical delivery systems and health outcomes can be impacted by culture. For example, there is a difference in hypertension between African Americans and Caucasians. There are high blood pressure levels in African Americans than in Caucasians. This is due to a fact that African Americans have low access to insurance covers than Caucasians.

Differences in healthcare systems in a large metropolitan area versus ones in a rural area.

There is a huge difference between the level of healthcare systems in urban areas and rural areas. This difference could be due to the population, accessibility, or geographic distribution of the healthcare providers. The level of healthcare evolves every day as the cities grow. It's evident how population affects the level of healthcare as most people live in the cities and the healthcare in the cities is more improved than in the rural areas.

Cultural influences contribute to different health outcomes.

Genetics

There is a lot of diseases that are indirectly related to genetics. Some could be a single gene mutation while others could be more complex. Some diseases are caused by a combination of both genes and behavior like diabetes and heart diseases.

Lifestyles and behaviors 

Another factor that impacts the outcomes of health is the behavior and lifestyle of the patients. Some behaviors risk the increased chances of contracting certain diseases. These are diseases like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and kidney disease (Achim et al., 2020).

Attitudes and beliefs

Attitudes have an impact on health care outcomes. The kind of beliefs we hold, be it positive or negative, influences our behavior, how we interpret an event, and our experience with stress is a very important aspect of different types of healthcare problems

Healthcare quality

Another issue affecting the outcomes of health is the quality of health care the patients can access. Research shows there is a 5% increase in the amount spent on medical developments. Health spending accounts for 17% of the gross domestic product (Achim et al., 2020).).

Environment

Several environmental issues affect human wellness and health. These are issues like climate change, air pollution chemical pollution, poor infrastructure, disease-causing microbes, and lack of access to quality healthcare.

Importance of culture to health overall

Culture impacts the way individuals perceives and how we experience the world. Culture influences how patients and health care providers perceive diseases. It also impacts what is perceived to be the cause of a particular disease by both the patient and the healthcare providers. An example is a patient who does not believe in the germ theory and is more rooted in fatalism.

Culture helps in understanding what different diseases signify in different cultural settings. For example, in most cultures being depressed and visiting a psychiatrist is viewed that the patient is crazy. It also helps the healthcare providers what kind of activities are accepted in different cultures. Additionally, culture explains how different diseases and pains are expressed and experienced. The degree to which pain may be examined and treated may be different depending on what culture one practices.

Value of diversity, the value of diversity of cultures, and the impact of diversity on health outcomes."

Through diversity, people develop a strong sense of identity and improve their wellbeing. People have better health care when their abilities, diverse weaknesses and strengths, and perspectives are understood. Cultural diversity and cultural understanding eradicate negative stereotypes and being biased against a certain group. It helps us understand and respect ways of living that are different from our own (Mazioti et al., 2021). Diversity of cultures improve the interaction of different groups and build bridges that improve services like in the health sector and builds respect and understanding.

Diversity has a huge impact on health care outcomes. It increases the level of services from the healthcare organization to the patients. It also improves customer satisfaction and increases innovation as well as HCAHPS scores. Leaving greater visibility into the hiring practices is the best way to increase diversity and inclusion in the healthcare organization.