Vulnerable population, according to (Galen, 2017), is an umbrella term for all the individuals who, due to a variety of factors, are at greater risk for poor health status and poor health access. There are several risk factors for vulnerability, such as: a person demographics, environment, socioeconomics of area, which makes these individuals have a greater risk for developing health problems because of challenges that include limited access to resources, poverty, marginalized sociocultural status, limited education, chronic mental illness, incarceration, age, or homelessness. (Knickman & Kovner, 2015).
Two examples will be low economic population and incarcerated population.
The low economic population has difficult accessing healthcare due to not able to …show more content…
usually the only time these individuals get a health checkup is when they are in jail. Usually once they are release from jail they don’t continue to check up with there health due to not able to afford and not having access to health care, causing the problem to reoccur. Just as (Kulkarni, 2010) stated, upon release from prison or jail, ex-offenders face interruptions in their medical care stemming from the limited availability of health care, a lack of health insurance, and lack of adequate discharge planning. Most of these diseases are communicable disease that should be monitored and requires follow up. I think these individuals should be provided with the appropriate resources, so they can continue to get the appropriate treatment they need to be healthy, when they are released from jail/prison. If they don’t have insurance, we can always provide them with low/free income clinics and provide them with additional resources to get cheap/free medication if
Two examples will be low economic population and incarcerated population.
The low economic population has difficult accessing healthcare due to not able to …show more content…
usually the only time these individuals get a health checkup is when they are in jail. Usually once they are release from jail they don’t continue to check up with there health due to not able to afford and not having access to health care, causing the problem to reoccur. Just as (Kulkarni, 2010) stated, upon release from prison or jail, ex-offenders face interruptions in their medical care stemming from the limited availability of health care, a lack of health insurance, and lack of adequate discharge planning. Most of these diseases are communicable disease that should be monitored and requires follow up. I think these individuals should be provided with the appropriate resources, so they can continue to get the appropriate treatment they need to be healthy, when they are released from jail/prison. If they don’t have insurance, we can always provide them with low/free income clinics and provide them with additional resources to get cheap/free medication if