Health disparities

Medical Students Without Borders: Aiming to Increase Benefits of Short Term Experiences in Global Health (STEGHs) “In fact, we never saw any of our patients for a second time. Not one of the 1,427 patients was ever seen for follow-up of their diagnoses. I worry that they did not consider it important to finish the full course of their antibiotic, that their children ate too many sweet gummy vitamins, or that they simply did not see their transient dizziness as the serious medical concern…

THE INCREASED BIOPOLITICAL CONTROL OF WOMEN’S BODIES THROUGH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE REGULATION; AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS. Recently proposed laws that enact abortion and reproductive health care regulation have been marked as safety precautions in order to protect the health of women. However, these laws do not consider which groups are most often impacted by their enactment, and what the consequences of said enactment may be. If clinics in low income neighborhoods cannot meet…

Community health workers(CHWs) are trained frontline public health workers who are responsible for a variety of roles in New Zealand(NZ) health system. This paper will first state their roles and responsibilities, where and how they work, besides whom they might work with. Secondly, key challenges they address in their work and their contributions towards an integrated health system will be described. Lastly, key criteria for evaluating web-based information applied in data researching for this…

Medicare Part C is considered the advantage plan because it has its own private health plans which includes Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). The advantage plan still provides coverage of part A and Part B and sometimes the advantage plan will cover prescription costs, but this plan has restrictions…

research and health policy are not separate entities. As a research assistant, I like to think of myself as an unsung hero of the healthcare industry. Research is a meaningful yet overlooked component of healthcare that has allowed me to make a substantive difference in patient’s health and welfare. For example, I am currently working on a project to improve the discharge process at BMC for patients with depressive- like symptoms. Working at BMC has sparked my interest in becoming a health…

Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) received the name after many years of evolving through various roles and responsibilities of public health. In 1877 a bill was signed into law that created a State Board of Health to assist in organizing and improving the current health concerns during that time (“TDH”, 2016). In the 1800s, Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis and many smaller towns experienced life-threatening diseases that caused death and economic loss. The State Board of Health had…

my understanding has come from my service in Dr. Amy Waterman’s lab at the UCLA Transplant Research and Education Center. The research lab aims to reduce racial disparities in transplant. An example of our discoveries during research was results showing that minorities, especially African Americans, are less likely to pursue living…

However, opportunities around the globe prevent many from doing so. In the United States, poor health is strongly correlated with being poor and health and income tend to have an inverse relationship. The main cause of this unfairness and negativity is materialism. This is an ideal that Gandhi detested years ago, and needs to be rejected now if the United States wants to improve the health of its citizens and recognize the humanity of those that are marginalized by its institution. There are…

one area that seems to have received low attention was quality of healthcare and/or access to it. This articles seeks to explicate the reasons why African Americans and other colored people are not insured in the health care. Most of the African American people do not have access to health care because of their economic situation. Most insurance companies require a substantial investment in the insurance something that most African Americans are unable to achieve. After the reduction of…

of care, we must explore health disparities and why it exists. This discussion will include situational factors behind what most professionals encounter. So, to create a holistic assessment or narrative of patients' situations there are simple actions every hospital and health system can take within their institutions. For example, UPMC could tie the elimination of health care disparities to the organization’s mission. Neighborhoods clinics could utilize community health assessments, forums, and…