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Health and Illness in my Community
Miami-Dade County is a large community with a population estimated in 2015 at 2,666,776(Healthy Communities Institute, 2015). This community is made up of Blacks, Whites, Hispanic, Christians and Jews just to name a few. Upon asking several people about their health status many state “they are healthy”. Upon digging deeper into their answer, we find out that many take prescription medications for hypertension and/or diabetes. Many are smokers, have not gone to the dentist in many years, lead sedentary lifestyles and don’t eat the adequate amount of fruits and vegetable daily.
In Miami-Dade 32.7% of the population has been diagnosed with hypertension, 8.9% have been diagnosed with diabetes, and …show more content…
Everywhere one walks is noted how different everyone is. Many times you can tell where someone is from by the clothing they wear or accent that they speak in. Other times are a bit harder to determine, are they Chinese or Japanese? Are they African American or Jamaican? Everyone expresses themselves in an individual manner. Maybe by the way they dress, or perhaps the way they speak. Sometimes is the art they tattoo on their body or body piercing. Unluckily, the ability to stereotype is one we learn at an early age and one we must learn to surmount in order to be a great health care provider. Because in order to be able to take care of patients effectively, one must put aside stereotyping and …show more content…
These inequities have significant social and economic costs both to individuals and societies”.(World Health Organization, 2011) Health inequality is more common that we think. It happens around us all the time. I work in an outpatient unit. Many of the patients that come to my unit are immigrants and have no insurance. Mostly these patients come for an extended time for daily IV antibiotics and the hospital pays for the treatment, but when it 's time to follow-up with the Infectious Disease many patients have a problem getting a follow up appointment. Many times when I ask the patients why they haven’t followed up with the doctor yet they tell me the same reason. Either they can’t communicate with the office staff because they don’t speak English or in order to be seen by the doctor they need to pay and they don’t have the means to pay for
Health and Illness in my Community
Miami-Dade County is a large community with a population estimated in 2015 at 2,666,776(Healthy Communities Institute, 2015). This community is made up of Blacks, Whites, Hispanic, Christians and Jews just to name a few. Upon asking several people about their health status many state “they are healthy”. Upon digging deeper into their answer, we find out that many take prescription medications for hypertension and/or diabetes. Many are smokers, have not gone to the dentist in many years, lead sedentary lifestyles and don’t eat the adequate amount of fruits and vegetable daily.
In Miami-Dade 32.7% of the population has been diagnosed with hypertension, 8.9% have been diagnosed with diabetes, and …show more content…
Everywhere one walks is noted how different everyone is. Many times you can tell where someone is from by the clothing they wear or accent that they speak in. Other times are a bit harder to determine, are they Chinese or Japanese? Are they African American or Jamaican? Everyone expresses themselves in an individual manner. Maybe by the way they dress, or perhaps the way they speak. Sometimes is the art they tattoo on their body or body piercing. Unluckily, the ability to stereotype is one we learn at an early age and one we must learn to surmount in order to be a great health care provider. Because in order to be able to take care of patients effectively, one must put aside stereotyping and …show more content…
These inequities have significant social and economic costs both to individuals and societies”.(World Health Organization, 2011) Health inequality is more common that we think. It happens around us all the time. I work in an outpatient unit. Many of the patients that come to my unit are immigrants and have no insurance. Mostly these patients come for an extended time for daily IV antibiotics and the hospital pays for the treatment, but when it 's time to follow-up with the Infectious Disease many patients have a problem getting a follow up appointment. Many times when I ask the patients why they haven’t followed up with the doctor yet they tell me the same reason. Either they can’t communicate with the office staff because they don’t speak English or in order to be seen by the doctor they need to pay and they don’t have the means to pay for