jor causes of death including chronic diseases, communicable diseases and injuries. There are several factors that account for differences between socioeconomic and racial and ethnic groups. These factors include a lower sedentary life style, cigarette smoking and less likely to have health insurance coverage or receive preventive care among these groups. Those who live more sedentary life styles are at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure, all things that effect lower-socioeconomic groups more often than those in higher income brackets. Those who are less educated are also twice as likely to smoke cigarettes as the most educated. Everybody knows the risks of cigarette smoking nowadays, such as lung cancer, emphysema, higher Sudden Infant Death Syndrome rates among children whose mothers smokes while pregnant, etc, etc.The socioeconomic status of children is definitely a determinant of their health, according to the HHS report (1998). A less-educated mother is more likely to have children with low birth-weight and infant mortality than a more educated mother. Mothers who dropped out of high school are 50% more likely to have low birth-weight babies than those mothers who finished college. Lead poisoning is much higher, seven times, in children from poor families and non-White families than high-income White families, especially among blacks. Insurance coverage and access care for preventive services and regular doctor visits vary according to socioeconomic status as well. According to HHS (1998), insurance coverage made a real difference for poor children in terms of access to health care. Among all poor children under six years of age, 21% of those without health insurance had no usual source of care compared with 4% of poor children covered by insurance.All of these factors are bound to have an impact on the health and thus, education of children who come from low socioeconomic and non-White groups. Chil...
