Discrimination is one of the major factors affecting health and quality of life environmentally, globally, and socially. By definition, discrimination is the deprivation of basic privileges or other forms of maltreatment based on a category in which one falls. For instance, single mothers from Appalachian, a rural center in America, have difficulties accessing quality foods from open markets. The discrimination toward these residents increases their risk of depression and other mental instabilities (Snell-Rood & Carpenter-Song, 2018). Depression and deprived access to quality care or good food are interrelated and limit the success of single mothers’ interaction with other community members. Accordingly, uncompounded mothers reimbursing in the Appalachian have cooped up access to general support.
Due to discrimination against single parenthood, quality healthcare access remains unmet. In most cases, single women are depressed by their inability to provide their children with quality education. In light of this struggle, some of them sacrifice their easy access to healthcare and prefer using alternatives of cheaper over-the-counter drugs, even when suffering major illnesses (Luque et al., 2018). For instance, parents who have asthma could use aspirin and buy over-the-counter to afford food for the entire. Precluding behind all, partiality is disposed to partnerless mothers against securing decent jobs that could afford healthy lifestyles.
Several interventions have been suggested, given the severity of depression resulting from single mothers’ discrimination. Predominantly, the multiplied target used as an intervention to resultant issues is believed to be constrictive as interventions to social determinants of health. Indeed, policymakers have used these challenges to develop new approaches, rules, and meditated guidelines to manage how people access and use anti-depressants (Godman et al., 2021). The majority of the health policies preventing alcohol and other substances are generated from observed data related to the population resolving to use them for solace.
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Luque, J. S., Soulen, G., Davila, C. B., & Cartmell, K. (2018). Access to health care for uninsured Latina immigrants in South Carolina. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), 1-12.
Snell-Rood, C., & Carpenter-Song, E. (2018). Depression in a depressed area: Deservingness, mental illness, and treatment in the contemporary rural US. Social Science & Medicine, 219, 78-86.