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1. What are hotspots? Hot spots are locations where there is a small group of people or a subset of a community that make up a large percentage of the health care expenses in that given city or town. The reasons these pockets come to exist is because these individuals are unable to afford basic medical care or maintain a healthy lifestyle. The result of not being able to meet what most people consider basic needs, hotspots locations are forced to ignore certain aspects of their lives that most of us would more closely monitor. As a result, what would could be a could situation expands into larger problems and more expensive forms of medical care. When coupled with the inability to access basic care it forces people to turn to more expensive measures.
2. Why do you think poverty is so closely associated with increased health care costs? I think that poverty is associated with increased health care costs because they are unable to afford the basic measures that prevent more expensive health care trips. Examples of this are the ability to access to healthy foods or living in a clean household environment. People who are …show more content…
Additionally, this system can be used to see what specific health care needs are in greatest demand. Is it access to healthier foods? Could there be no access to health care within their local community? A simple fix maybe providing access to basic health food that are not available currently to the community. Or it may show locations to where there is a need for a health care office n that can be accessed at extended hours so people in a local community have a place that they can go to that is not the emergency room. This could serve as a place that is within the community so people are able to access. The real benefit of this system is making that people can get to affordable care before major problems
1. What are hotspots? Hot spots are locations where there is a small group of people or a subset of a community that make up a large percentage of the health care expenses in that given city or town. The reasons these pockets come to exist is because these individuals are unable to afford basic medical care or maintain a healthy lifestyle. The result of not being able to meet what most people consider basic needs, hotspots locations are forced to ignore certain aspects of their lives that most of us would more closely monitor. As a result, what would could be a could situation expands into larger problems and more expensive forms of medical care. When coupled with the inability to access basic care it forces people to turn to more expensive measures.
2. Why do you think poverty is so closely associated with increased health care costs? I think that poverty is associated with increased health care costs because they are unable to afford the basic measures that prevent more expensive health care trips. Examples of this are the ability to access to healthy foods or living in a clean household environment. People who are …show more content…
Additionally, this system can be used to see what specific health care needs are in greatest demand. Is it access to healthier foods? Could there be no access to health care within their local community? A simple fix maybe providing access to basic health food that are not available currently to the community. Or it may show locations to where there is a need for a health care office n that can be accessed at extended hours so people in a local community have a place that they can go to that is not the emergency room. This could serve as a place that is within the community so people are able to access. The real benefit of this system is making that people can get to affordable care before major problems