section_path: Consequences of class position/Health and nutrition
section_name: Health and nutrition
paragraph_text: Health and nutrition
  
  A person's social class often affects their physical health, their ability to receive adequate medical care and nutrition and their life expectancy.
  
  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.