Editing Social class (section)

===Health and nutrition===
{{main|Social determinants of health}}
A person's social class often affects their physical health, their ability to receive adequate [[medical care]] and [[nutrition]] and their [[life expectancy]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Barr, Donald A.|title=Health disparities in the United States: social class, race, ethnicity, and health|publisher=JHU Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-8018-8821-2|pages=1–2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=US21MlGw3-IC&pg=PA1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Gulliford, Martin|chapter=Equity and access to health care|editor1=Gulliford, Martin |editor2=Morgan, Myfanwy|title=Access to health care|publisher=Psychology Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-415-27546-0|page=39|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mOXP05u5alAC&pg=PA39}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Budrys, Grace|title=Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health Or Illness|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7425-6507-4|pages=183–184|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUSM_kCNsSAC&pg=PA183}}</ref>

Lower-class people experience a wide array of health problems as a result of their economic status. They are unable to use health care as often and when they do it is of lower quality, even though they generally tend to experience a much higher rate of health issues. Lower-class families have higher rates of [[infant mortality]], [[cancer]], [[cardiovascular disease]] and disabling physical injuries. Additionally, poor people tend to work in much more hazardous conditions, yet generally have much less (if any) health insurance provided for them, as compared to middle- and upper-class workers.<ref>{{cite book|author=Liu, William Ming|title=Social Class and Classism in the Helping Professions: Research, Theory, and Practice|publisher=Sage|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4129-7251-2|page=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4IbVbxXisUgC&pg=PA29}}</ref>