Urban Inequality and Health

This paper is a modest attempt to underline the urban inequality and its impact on health. It describes the health implications of social inequalities within city.  It also describes the health problems from which low-income groups in urban areas suffer more than richer groups including those that are not linked to poor sanitary conditions and those that are more linked to relative poverty (and thus the level of inequality) than to absolute poverty. Study on the health of rich and poor households within cities show the much larger burden of disease, injury, and premature death that low-income groups face. Most of this burden is easily prevented because it is a result of their unequal access to homes which have provision for piped water, sanitation, drainage and garbage collection, and adequate health care. Thus with this we can say that health inequality never been an independent phenomenon. By using health and social impacts of urban inequality as a focal point of the discussion, the paper also intends to provoke thought on some of the fundamental issues of human development trajectories.