Address Health Disparities: A Speech Analysis

Among minorities such as Asians, Hispanics, Indians, Native Americans, and Middle Easterners, the African American race has been affected tremendously by the health disparities in the United States. Currently, African Americans have significantly higher mortality rates from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, HIV, unintentional injuries, pregnancy, sudden infant death syndrome, and homicide than do whites Americans (Fiscella & Williams, 2004). While African Americans may lead in these categories, other minorities are not far behind in experiencing health disparities.

According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (Kassandra, A., 2015), the issue of health disparities have impacted many people’s lives in the community where the minority groups do not have equal access to the quality health care. These

Through the weekly courses, lectures and readings, I have learnt a lot about racial and ethnic disparities, racism amongst minorities (Hispanics, African American-Black, Asians, Latinos). America is a nation of immigrants and their health and healthcare consists of multi-ethnic immigrant stories. I want to share some thoughts on racial and ethnic health disparities, on why I think that America is still a racist nation and racism is so insidious and pervasive. Health disparity is defined as a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial

APTA’s Department of Minority/ International Affairs along with the association commitment to cultural competence have presented statements toward access/equity, and advocacy. Steps toward diversity in our profession consist of a mix of multiple initiatives working together. The crescive approach encourage the “doers”, in this case minority faculty members and minority students applying for PT/PTA programs, to become the game changers. Management takes feedback from them and evaluate the proposals. One of the proposals toward the achievement of diversity and attracting faculty and students from different backgrounds is offering educational forums for domestic (i.e. the invisible Appalachian region) and international community service (Dupre, A., Goodgold, S., 2007), allowing the minority members to identify with their patients, learning first-hand about proper health cultural interactions, and receiving profound instruction of cultural mastery in the classrooms and clinical

Once again his overall posture and confident level was excellent. The speaker shows passion for the subject he is speaking on from the hand movements when he speaks on poverty and domestic abuse as being trivial (a means to an end). The speakers volume was just right he spoke high enough for the back of the room could here, and the speech was easy to understand. When given a speech a speaker should consider his audience in the wording of his speech, is he giving a speech to children for educational purposes or a group of college students, this is call no one left behind so the entire audience is on track.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged racial, ethnic, and other population groups, and communities” (CDC, 2017).  It  is easy to believe that control on overall health relies solely on making  a firm decision (the “right” decision" to lead a healthy lifestyle— by being active and eating a balanced-diet. There are other factors to be considered in evaluating and understanding health disparities: why people seem to be noncompliant? Or why people aren’t seeking medical attention in a timely manner?  In reading

Healthcare plays a crucial part in our lives. Health disparities “phrase references black-white differences as well health disadvantages characteristic of other ethnic groups “of color,” such as Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans” (Coreil, 2010 p. 167). Many socio-ecological factors that contribute to the existence of health disparities when it comes immunizations. An individual ability to have access to health care, insurance status, income level, provider and patient knowledge have a significant impact on vaccination rates.

The United States is a melting pot of cultural diversity. For a country that was founded by individuals fleeing persecution, it has taken us many years to grant African-Americans equal rights, and even longer for those rights to be recognized. Despite all the effort to eliminate inequality in this country, health disparity among this minority group remains a significant issue. Research in this area has pointed to several key reasons for this gap that center on differences in culture, socioeconomics, and lack of health literacy.

April is National Minority Health Month. Despite major advances in medicine, ever-evolving technology and more noteworthy access to medicinal services over the past century, there are tenacious disparities in health that disproportionally influence racial and ethnic minorities and other helpless populations.

The African American Health coalition is a group under the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, newly redesigned as the Common Ground Health. Their focus is to create a community response that would eliminate health disparities that affect African Americans within the community (Common Ground Health). The creation of a coalition is due to a need for “different sectors of the community, state or nation” to join together “to create opportunities” to benefit all parties involved (Butterfoss, 157). As well the “strategies for addressing the initial problem” are not a one time solution, but are “sustained” over a long period of time (Korfmacher, 436). The African American Health coalition has done a considerable job at not only creating opportunities

COLUMBUS—State Rep. Emilia Sykes recently gave the keynote address during The Ohio Commission of Minority Health’s (OCMH) Kick - off Event for Minority Health Month. The keynote address touched on various topics including, the promotion of healthy lifestyles and the need for crucial information to allow individuals to practice disease prevention. Most notably, Rep. Sykes highlighted the inequities in health outcomes between Ohio’s minority and non-minority populations.

Endres did a very good job with Pronuntiatio, getting a ⅘. Dr. Endres did a great job of speaking clearly, never mummering or speaking in a way that her audience might not be able to understand what she was saying. Furthermore, she did a good job of also staying concise and on her topic, never wandering too far off of the topic of the use of the northern Ute name and symbols. Furthermore, she had very few grammatical mistakes during her presentation. Lastly, while she was restricted from being able to move too much as a result of the microphone being attached to a stand at the front of the auditorium, she made use of what movement she could, and made lot of expressive hand gestures to keep attention and to aid with the more important details of the presentation. All of these things were very important as they made it obvious that this was a topic that she actually cared deeply about, not just some topic that was pushed onto her by someone else to complete. This made a big difference in how interesting the lecture was to the audience as generally when the presenter shows that they actually care about the topic that they are presenting, it makes it much more personal and interesting for those listening to the lecture. The only thing that could have been improved on by Dr. Endres in the category of Pronuntiatio was that she spent a decent amount of the presentation reading off of papers that she had at the stand instead of having committed most of the information to

Large disparities exist between minorities and the rest of Americans in major areas of health. Even though the overall health of the nation is improving, minorities suffer from certain diseases up to five times more than the rest of the nation. President Clinton has committed the nation to eliminating the disparities in six areas of health by the Year 2010, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be jumping in on this huge battle. The six areas are: Infant Mortality, Cancer Screening and Management, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, HIV Infection and AIDS, and Child and Adult Immunizations.

3. Was the speech well-organized? Did it have a robust introduction, a solid body with specific main points, and a conclusion? How was the time allotment for each section (too long, too short?) Were the times dedicated to each section appropriate? (Introduction and Conclusion: between 45 seconds to1 minute; Body: main points each 1:15 – 1:30)

The speaker made direct eye contact at all times unless his head was moving to place emphasis on what he was saying. Further, the speaker spoke loud enough to be heard and did not require me to turn my volume up super high while struggling to hear him. Additionally, the speaker utilized a good pace. He moved slow enough for me to comprehend everything he was telling me but fast enough so that I did not get bored and distracted. Finally, the speaker alternated his pitch throughout the speech which kept my attention. Overall, besides the previously addressed issues, the delivery of the speech was great! I would, however, suggest having more time of the speech spent face to face with the speaker for a more powerful speech.