The Disparities that need to be addressed are, cardiovascular disease and cancer in minority groups. Stress is a major factor when it comes to minority groups and their health disparities. Typically minority groups also have a lower income, and that will also contribute to the health disparity. People with more money tend to be less stressed, and minority groups are also stressed by socioeconomic factors. To address the health disparities in Fort Bend several different strategies will have to be accomplished in order to eliminate the health disparities.…
1. How will you contribute to the mission of the NURSE Corps Scholarship Program in providing care to underserved communities? Health illiteracy and lack of healthcare access in low income areas are well documented by my studies. This population is also known to have many comorbidities and a shortage of primary care providers. I want to make a difference in low income communities because they are underserved and improvised.…
Make suggestions for an effective approach: Michelle, the audience you selected is appropriate in reaching many members of the nursing profession who could impact reducing healthcare disparity. In your policy brief, with the audience that you selected, it will be important to present evidenced-based information to support that the problem of healthcare disparities do exist among breast cancer patients and how your goals will assist in reducing disparities among minorities. Include questions that challenge the person to be more targeted in their approach: How does the Affordable Care Act influence healthcare disparities? Why do health disparities matter?…
If I had the opportunity to revise the readings, my proposed new article would be “Implicit bias and its relation to health disparities: a teaching program and survey of medical students” by Christina Gonzalez, Mimi Kim and Paul Marantz, published in 2014. I believe this article fits will with the overall goal of Sociology 146 to study health differences between social groups through thorough examination of the extent to which health is unevenly distributed across groups and potential pathways that link factors to health status. The paper seeks to elucidate provider disparities which is when a physician has varying treatment of different patients, an act that contributes to health disparities. This practice is thought to stem from implicit bias from unintentional and unconscious assumptions.…
Health disparities means a great difference between different regions of the country. It is considered as a universal concern. Many people are suffering of health disparities. Sometime health disparities cause a serious cases that people could die from it. Minority group is usually a group of people that are similar to each other in there, language, believes, and religion.…
Medical researchers have made significant advancement over the past century. These advances in medical research and technology have resulted in better outcomes for life expectancy and reduced the burden of disease. One thing medical researchers fail to foresee is improving high school dropout rates is a public health concern, especially the populations most at risk. Yet, health professionals decline to take the opportunity to look at their approach to systematically improving health and reducing health disparities (Freudenberg & Ruglis, 2007). Public health professionals should make reducing high school dropout rates a public health priority.…
Assessment Undoubtedly, the causality of infant mortality disparity seen among African American soon-to-be mothers is a major public health concern. It may not be one that can simply be measured by disparities in adulthood but shaped across an individual’s lifetime and potentially across generations as Freire (2000) eluded to in Pedagogy of the oppressed. In Orange County, FL whether the concerns streamed from Oppression or Residential Segregation or other additional factors, focusing on Communities and increasing collective efficacy mechanisms are vital and will be assessed. People & Place…
Health disparities is a profound difference in healthcare opportunities and services available to the general public. It can be based on certain factors such as, race, social class, economics, and or environmental disadvantages, (Kotch, 2010). Health disparities usually affect people that have experienced obstacles in life because of those certain factors mentioned earlier, and those who have always been discriminated against. Whether it was because of color, gender, sexual preference, or geographic disadvantages, they stepped outside of the norm accepted by society and have to suffer inequalities in health care. 2.Which racial/ethnic groups are more likely to be affected by health disparities?…
Man’s greatest fear is death. For centuries, it has been the most dominant terror sitting at the forefront of every decision. Any form of death is dreaded, regardless of whether it be your death or the death of a companion. For me, the jobs that help individuals recover from encounters that brought them so close to death are the most rewarding. The desire to help people and their families inspires me to become a surgeon; it is not only a job, but a way to become a lifesaver and a hero.…
Health or health professionals can improve trust between themselves and people who have historically been mistrustful of medical professionals by concentrating on patient-centered care. The best way that health professionals can eliminate health disparities is by improving their delivered care to each patient by emphasizing patient dignity and empowerment. Communication between patient and health professional is key. According to the National Adult Literacy Survey almost 90 million U.S. adults have difficulty reading written text. Of this 90 million the patients with limited health literacy and chronic illness have less knowledge of disease management.…
The purpose of this response is to discuss the how personal bias can skew the way health care providers may view their patients. One type of bias is known as implicit bias. This type of bias refers to the feelings or stereotypes that impact our understanding, actions and choices in an unconscious way (jointcommissoin.org). The preconceived ideas we harbor in our mind that have been created over our lifetime, from various experiences, can control outcomes in the healthcare setting, in both desirable and undesirable ways. Being that education on a subject such as this is usually geared towards correcting undesirable outcomes, here are some examples of how biases can affect patient care negatively.…
Public health concerns involve communities within populations that experience certain health disparities and focus on specific health issues or illnesses. Community-acquired pneumonia or CAP for short is a common infectious disease in elderly (and communities with specific health disparities) that is responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality (Thiem et al, 2011). Health disparities are preventable illnesses that are common in some socially and economically disadvantaged communities (CDC, 2015). Within these disparities are specific health determinants that are also factors to be considered when evaluating from the public health perspective. Contributors to these disparities are often poverty, environmental issues/threats; lack of…
Flores, & Tomany-Korman (2007) introduced this study because of the lack of answers about the racial and ethnic disparity that are present when it comes to health care as well as its access. The National Survey of Children’s Health was conducted using a random sampling population of parents and guardians totaling to 102,353 with children zero to 17. This study included backgrounds from African Americans, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native Americans, and multiracial children. Overall the results from this study conclude that there were multiple disparities including insurance, behavioral and speech problems, transportation limitations, and receiving prescriptions medications.…
There is a problem in healthcare where racial and ethnic disparities exist. Despite the abundance of healthcare facilities, technology and pharmacology and other aspects to which the U.S. is envied by others, something that should be accessible to everyone, is not. The quality and improvement of health care have been a long- standing and persistent issue of national discussions in the United States for years. This problem has negatively impacted African American women because there is a disparity of access and quality of care that they are receiving. Poor outcomes in health care, based on race or ethnic background exist in every level of the American health care system.…
Conclusion This final section of the paper intends to briefly suggest solutions to the specific problems addressed throughout the paper. While some of the proposals have already been implemented and experienced high rates of success, most of them are strictly theoretical and require further research to explore their validity, as well as applicability. First, there must be a reform in maternity leave policies for women within the medical profession.…