Health disparities

Throughout the United States America, Indians, and Alaskan Natives face many challenges and health disparities. Health disparities facing these populations have not showed large improvements due to the lack of research and data on the healthcare of this population. Literature throughout this grant proposal will make it evident that knowledge and geographical location predisposes this population to healthcare deficits. A Telemedicine grant will help to address challenges within the American…

of my parents are political, for they are democrat individuals who raised their children to be acquainted with civil rights and social disparities. However, I do believe my identities fit into a culturally competent behavioral health plan because of cultural disparities in health care. Therefore, minorities are less likely to have access to available mental health services and often receive a poorer quality of treatment of care. I believe a lot of these issues have to do with the racial and…

Although statistical data and research shows there are healthcare disparities as it relates to minorities, much isn’t done to change negative patterns. However, researchers’ have chosen to examine the healthcare racial inequalities of African Americans. Cultural differences, and racial conscious and unconscious are factors that contribute to the gap in African American health. Therefore, collecting only medical data and physician behaviors towards certain diagnosis, is not enough to determine…

6. Racial health disparities, like racial income and wealth disparities, are clearly present in our society. Black Americans have greater risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer (lecture 10). Blacks also have far higher rates of hypertension from high blood pressure. Like other types of inequality, there is a debate over where the root of this discrepancy lies. The biological argument is one that genetics are the basis for susceptibility to disease. If this were…

Introduction Women’s health is a global problem across the world. It is extended beyond Planned Parenthood. Worldwide poverty, limited access to health services, cultural taboo and gender inequality puts women at risk for even more serious complications when it comes to their health. Two hundred million women who wish not to conceive a child do not have access to modern contraceptive. Every minute of every day a woman dies from pregnancy complications. More than 38 million worldwide are…

Disparities in health status between the American Indian minority and other groups in the United States have persisted ever since the beginning of European contact. Indians face many problems that do not affect the rest of the US population. The federal government is responsible for handling Indian affairs for the benefit of all American Indians. Nevertheless, the government has failed to live up to this responsibility. As a result, Native Americans on reservations are among the poorest and…

These issues include a high proportion of high school dropout and poverty, which share a complicated relationship with reproductive health. First, poverty is associated with increased rates of teen pregnancy (Finer & Henshaw, 2006). Secondly, teen pregnancies can disrupt an adolescent’s educational goals, ultimately leading to reduced earning and a child raised in poverty (The National…

Health care disparities within minority groups are a significant problem in the United States and have drastic effects on the individuals that compose the minority. Health care disparities are defined as “differences in access to or availability of facilities and services” (HSRIC, 2015). Race and equality have been an ongoing issue in the United States, but there has been improvement over many years. Although equality has improved in several areas, health care is still an issue. Many people…

erupted in the 1970’s, some scientists have addressed the notion that genetic variation by means of racial differences represents a form of racialization and therefore racism, in healthcare settings and within health spectrums in general. By using race as an indicator of genetic disparities we are acknowledging race as a biologically based enigma rather than a social construct. We allow discrimination to color a picture of embodied inequality among healthcare measures. Just as the…

Major problems American society is facing are health and healthcare disparities. Health and healthcare disparities refer to differences in health and healthcare between populations. A “health disparity” refers to a higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one population group relative to another (CDC, n.d.). It comes as no surprise that there is a prevalent existence of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare today as many studies have drawn a correlation…