After a semester in public health 3100, I realized that there are more factors to my father’s illness with acute bronchitis than I initially thought. After rereading the Health Narrative part 1, which was a narrative about my father’s illness, acute bronchitis. I now know that my father’s location, age and lack of governmental control all contributed to my father making the decision to smoke. What a semester in public health 3100 taught me is that, unfortunately, many of the health problems worldwide have roots in social determents and social injustices that are projected towards a certain population groups. My father is not the only one who have this problem, but he is a member of millions of people worldwide who suffer from respiratory illness …show more content…
With no governmental control on who buys and who is able to smoke cigarettes and at what specific age my father’s friend were able to buy cigarettes and through peer pressure my father started to smoke. Another concept that feeds into the pathway effects is the accumulation of disadvantages, my father starting at young age, has continued to smoke until today, along with the stress of everyday life it has been especially hard for him to quit. He has tried, and he smokes less now than when he did in the past, but nonetheless, he has been diagnosed twice with acute bronchitis. Moreover, this goes to show that how smoking when young has lead him to continue smoking until now and also to have respiratory issues. Known that my father was in the country side, a very rural area in Yemen, is also important because of the concept of where you live matters. Living there meant that it was hard for him to see what the dangerous of smoking are and what it can do to him when he is old. One of the major leading causes of Non-Communicable Disease is tobacco that is something that my father did not know, and was not told due to his geographic isolation in the country side with very limited information about what smoking can do to a person’s