How culture and ethnicity may affect a person's physical and psychological health? Nurses often work with diverse populations with complexity in health and psychosocial problems, assisting them to promote wellness, whether regarding their mental or physical states, their environments, or their social habits, lifestyles, and choices. Nurses need to examine ways their cultural background may influence nursing care when working with patients from different cultural and ethnic groups. The article of Jackson et al., (2010) in their great work titled, "Women Health Centers and Minority Women: Addressing Barriers to Care" discussed the three barriers to identified and recognized access to health care of minority women. The barriers include policy,
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"Health equity is achieved when every person can attain his or her health potential, and no one is disadvantaged" (Lewis, et al., 2014, p, 20). The fact there is the higher percentage of minority women who are underinsured or uninsured than majority women, and if they do have medical insurance, it will usually fall into the category of lower paying wages, high cost or lack of insurance, and inaccessible services. Likewise, the policy barrier evidently causes minority women often are not able to find sufficient resources to cover expenses due to low-income wages and unable to sustain comprehensive health care due to cost reimbursement that offset to access primary care. Institutional barrier refers to creating or maintaining care delivery that are or is not perceived to be insensitive, unfriendly, or even hostile to minorities as conceived of their possible culture sensitivity. The interpersonal barrier can conclude to be their education differences or limitations, high-cost health care, inaccessible services, lack of insurances, transportation, and inconvenience locations and refusal by clinicians create nearly insuperable obstacles to …show more content…
In the process of minorities, despite the dramatic improvements in treating or access to health care to enhanced quality of life for most individuals, racial and ethnic minorities have benefited far less from these advances. Disparities are determined by comparing population groups. "The percentage of the minority groups is expected to increase in the coming decades" (Lewis et al., 2014, p. 21). "Consequences are those events or incidents that can occur as a result of the occurrence of a concept and that can often stimulate new ideas or avenues for research about certain concepts" (Walker and Avant, 2011). Possible consequences of minority include an individual's return to their country of origin, finding hope and meaning in life in other places, and moving beyond a difficult situation or circumstance toward a healthier and more satisfactory future; this is an encouraging process producing positive outcomes. Finally, empirical referents are measurable ways to demonstrate the occurrence of the concept (Walker and Avant, 2011). There are no calculations of a minority, and they can be decreasing but more on increasing. These population may or may not outnumbered the majority, but due to the existence of migrant workers, and other possible occurrences that make them settle their living in the country may escalate
"Health equity is achieved when every person can attain his or her health potential, and no one is disadvantaged" (Lewis, et al., 2014, p, 20). The fact there is the higher percentage of minority women who are underinsured or uninsured than majority women, and if they do have medical insurance, it will usually fall into the category of lower paying wages, high cost or lack of insurance, and inaccessible services. Likewise, the policy barrier evidently causes minority women often are not able to find sufficient resources to cover expenses due to low-income wages and unable to sustain comprehensive health care due to cost reimbursement that offset to access primary care. Institutional barrier refers to creating or maintaining care delivery that are or is not perceived to be insensitive, unfriendly, or even hostile to minorities as conceived of their possible culture sensitivity. The interpersonal barrier can conclude to be their education differences or limitations, high-cost health care, inaccessible services, lack of insurances, transportation, and inconvenience locations and refusal by clinicians create nearly insuperable obstacles to …show more content…
In the process of minorities, despite the dramatic improvements in treating or access to health care to enhanced quality of life for most individuals, racial and ethnic minorities have benefited far less from these advances. Disparities are determined by comparing population groups. "The percentage of the minority groups is expected to increase in the coming decades" (Lewis et al., 2014, p. 21). "Consequences are those events or incidents that can occur as a result of the occurrence of a concept and that can often stimulate new ideas or avenues for research about certain concepts" (Walker and Avant, 2011). Possible consequences of minority include an individual's return to their country of origin, finding hope and meaning in life in other places, and moving beyond a difficult situation or circumstance toward a healthier and more satisfactory future; this is an encouraging process producing positive outcomes. Finally, empirical referents are measurable ways to demonstrate the occurrence of the concept (Walker and Avant, 2011). There are no calculations of a minority, and they can be decreasing but more on increasing. These population may or may not outnumbered the majority, but due to the existence of migrant workers, and other possible occurrences that make them settle their living in the country may escalate