Introduction
Despite the economic success of United States, the country still faces great challenges in the healthcare sector – especially when it comes to vulnerable and diverse populations. Individuals from all cohorts and backgrounds in America do face certain health risks, but at the same time there are health concerns unmet that are unique to certain age, gender, sexual orientation, racial, ethnic, and cultural groups (Aday 2002). Assessing and addressing the various aspects of healthcare delivery to diverse population and coming-up with effective strategies has proven an ongoing struggle – in no small part due to America’s for-profit healthcare system. Florida is the fourth most populous state in the U.S. and has a particularly large …show more content…
quality and untimely heath care service delivery, inadequate education and poor information flow can be blamed on the system and the lack of inadequate awareness and efforts to address certain fundamental health issues.
How the Florida Office of Minority Health currently serves farm workers in Immokalee
Programs and agencies like Florida’s Office of Minority Health are tasked with finding and alleviating these shortcomings and disparities but in most all areas of government services the Mexicans, Guatemalans, Haitians and other ethnic groups in Immokalee are left-out or l
the formulation of special intervention programs that seek to support and enhance access through fair plans and interventions on the basis of need and …show more content…
Intimidation and obstruction by employers. The industrial tomato farming model that uses migrant and undocumented workers has a long history of doing so in order to operate as ungoverned and unrestricted slave plantations; threats of violence and deportation are common
rights and know little of the ones that they do have. It can be depressing and demoralizing even to talk about and so actually going to Immokalee to provide primary care or to administer prevention and wellness education can be quite daunting.
Calculated denial of access to care. This calculated denial of access to care reflects the antiquated pro-slavery argument that African American slaves were actually better off owned as plantation owners were more likely to take good care of their property than these industrial
programs brought to Immokalee might face. Lack of access to primary care and these wellness and prevention programs is not always a product of previously noted obstacles but sometimes is orchestrated and intentional and if that is true of any situation and vulnerable population it is true of the migrant workers in the tomato
Despite the economic success of United States, the country still faces great challenges in the healthcare sector – especially when it comes to vulnerable and diverse populations. Individuals from all cohorts and backgrounds in America do face certain health risks, but at the same time there are health concerns unmet that are unique to certain age, gender, sexual orientation, racial, ethnic, and cultural groups (Aday 2002). Assessing and addressing the various aspects of healthcare delivery to diverse population and coming-up with effective strategies has proven an ongoing struggle – in no small part due to America’s for-profit healthcare system. Florida is the fourth most populous state in the U.S. and has a particularly large …show more content…
quality and untimely heath care service delivery, inadequate education and poor information flow can be blamed on the system and the lack of inadequate awareness and efforts to address certain fundamental health issues.
How the Florida Office of Minority Health currently serves farm workers in Immokalee
Programs and agencies like Florida’s Office of Minority Health are tasked with finding and alleviating these shortcomings and disparities but in most all areas of government services the Mexicans, Guatemalans, Haitians and other ethnic groups in Immokalee are left-out or l
the formulation of special intervention programs that seek to support and enhance access through fair plans and interventions on the basis of need and …show more content…
Intimidation and obstruction by employers. The industrial tomato farming model that uses migrant and undocumented workers has a long history of doing so in order to operate as ungoverned and unrestricted slave plantations; threats of violence and deportation are common
rights and know little of the ones that they do have. It can be depressing and demoralizing even to talk about and so actually going to Immokalee to provide primary care or to administer prevention and wellness education can be quite daunting.
Calculated denial of access to care. This calculated denial of access to care reflects the antiquated pro-slavery argument that African American slaves were actually better off owned as plantation owners were more likely to take good care of their property than these industrial
programs brought to Immokalee might face. Lack of access to primary care and these wellness and prevention programs is not always a product of previously noted obstacles but sometimes is orchestrated and intentional and if that is true of any situation and vulnerable population it is true of the migrant workers in the tomato