Primary health care

roof over their head or obtaining the medical services they desperately need. This is true of both medical and mental health services. Due to the fact hospitals are required to provide care, regardless of whether or not a person has insurance, many lower and middle income families utilize the emergency room for basic healthcare, as opposed to a primary care physician or urgent care. For those who have insurance, many illnesses occur later in the evening or on…

field. During the Crimean War, Florence provided care to the soliders and improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base Hospital. With her actions, she was able to reduce the death of many people by two-thirds. She had started the field of nursing and her job has changed the view of many health care workers. In the nursing field, there are many different types of nurses and levels of education. Licensed Vocational Nurse is an entry level health nurse that requires a certificate or…

Medical and scientific research have been the cornerstones of innovation and discovery for centuries. The development of anesthesia, surgical techniques, and the basic flu vaccination were conceived through decades of experimentation and research. There are always ethical implications concerning research, especially when involving human subjects. Though in our current time there are legal regulations enforced to ensure that trials are being conducted ethically, this was not always the case; the…

While they have allowed for much advancement in medical care, they have also been highly successful in patient care. However, specialization has also had an inefficient impact on our health care delivery system. Currently, there are far more physicians choosing to be specialist, there happens to be a shortage in primary physicians. Due to this, more patients are seeing specialty physicians. In my opinion, this may be due to the lack of primary care physicians, or patient’s preference to see a…

Gender Wage Gap in the Health Care Field Women are now pursuing occupations that were traditionally dominated by males and offered a higher pay. The pay disparity is more prominent within such jobs, possibly because of the fact that they are less flexible and more demanding. As a result, employees, mainly women, who seek alternative arrangements face a disadvantage due to such requests. This theory is further explored by investigating the trends found within the healthcare sector. The path…

My journey with Public Health started with a bad luck: when I was small, I often got sick. Every such time, my mother took me to the city hospital, which was three kilometers far from my house. I still remember we wriggled through a horde of patients and their relatives in the lobby and waited for hours just for a quick check-up. By that time, I used to ask my mom why we would not go to the Community Health Station (CHS) – a primary healthcare facility – located just a few steps from my house?…

Discussion Providing exceptional care to U.S. veterans ought to be a priority for our nation and its health care providers. The VHA is approaching the 50-year mark of utilizing the nurse practitioner as a vital provider of primary care. With an increasing number of veterans, at home and abroad, now is the time to set up a universal scope of practice for providers throughout the system. It does not go unnoticed how difficult the creation of a national standard will be. While the VHA is a federal…

There are number of potential key factors linked to the underutilization of mental health services. The lack of access to mental health services continues and it is the most serious problem within the Latino community. Numerous Latino families leave their country of origin, to find better opportunities in the United States since the opportunities for employment in their own country are scarce and the violence has made it unsafe to raise their families. As Latino immigrant families transition and…

On March 23, 2010 United States President Barack Obama signed the law currently known as “Obamacare” or to be even more definite, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”. Now for a little over 6 years, the ACA has perpetually been in control of the healthcare system for United States individuals. According to Senator Ted Cruz, “What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.” This system of healthcare…

there are social and spatial inequalities in health in Great Britain and that have been widening since the mid 1800’s to late 1900’s, and even currently worldwide. These increasing inequalities in health can be observed in socio-economic trends. Observations can be made on different parts of Great Britain, European countries, and around other places around the world as well. I believe social class, economic, and political differences affect the trends of health inequality negatively from 1940 to…