1. Great post -----------. One of the mission of the Healthy People initiatives for 2020, is to identify ways in which to improve on health care priorities, while at the same time, utilize resources to increase public awareness, ensuring appropriate understanding with regards to the determinants of the health care they seek ( US Department of Health and Human Services 2000).In so doing, the goal is to manage and teach about the disease process with the aim of preventative medicine, rather than curative.
As you talk about disparity, though we cannot overlook the statistical reports of the National Health Interview Survey, we must be mindful that we are a nation of nations. In as much as changes in the Health Care Act, we cannot afford to overlook …show more content…
I agree with you that the Healthy People initiative seeks to improve the lives of people and envisions a health care system that gives achievable goals noted to be Evidence based practices. However, barriers do exist and not all sick people falls in the category of being eligible. The disparity in a different sense falls into the fact that all illnesses becomes reported so are deaths, but consideration is not taken into statistical reports that many are really not followed for disease prevention and control of illnesses, and not much can be done, most times to prevent deaths. Take the Hispanic population that has the percentage you quoted, this is because, they are many who may distort the statistics, because many patients enter the system using 1 credential. In other words, there may be 3-5 Maria Hernadez, even using the same address. This brings confusion, because with each person, their assessment is different, but to you the caregiver, it is the same person. Many errors happens because of this, and though deaths get reported, it is no fault of the medical team, because they are not privilege to the fact that they are treating different people. Puzzles in outcome of tests may lead towards a clue, but by the time it is caught, it may be too late, or the person because of fear, elopes from the hospital. After care, for this reason, becomes impossible; and to add insult to injury, many give false addresses because their abode is illegal, in the sense that the person listed to live in that home, is rent subsidized and no other person must list that address as theirs; many times, there are multiple people living in the home who has no “business” being
As you talk about disparity, though we cannot overlook the statistical reports of the National Health Interview Survey, we must be mindful that we are a nation of nations. In as much as changes in the Health Care Act, we cannot afford to overlook …show more content…
I agree with you that the Healthy People initiative seeks to improve the lives of people and envisions a health care system that gives achievable goals noted to be Evidence based practices. However, barriers do exist and not all sick people falls in the category of being eligible. The disparity in a different sense falls into the fact that all illnesses becomes reported so are deaths, but consideration is not taken into statistical reports that many are really not followed for disease prevention and control of illnesses, and not much can be done, most times to prevent deaths. Take the Hispanic population that has the percentage you quoted, this is because, they are many who may distort the statistics, because many patients enter the system using 1 credential. In other words, there may be 3-5 Maria Hernadez, even using the same address. This brings confusion, because with each person, their assessment is different, but to you the caregiver, it is the same person. Many errors happens because of this, and though deaths get reported, it is no fault of the medical team, because they are not privilege to the fact that they are treating different people. Puzzles in outcome of tests may lead towards a clue, but by the time it is caught, it may be too late, or the person because of fear, elopes from the hospital. After care, for this reason, becomes impossible; and to add insult to injury, many give false addresses because their abode is illegal, in the sense that the person listed to live in that home, is rent subsidized and no other person must list that address as theirs; many times, there are multiple people living in the home who has no “business” being