Are Hispanics: Positive Or Negative Attitudes In Health Care?

“Americans can take come pride in the fact that attaining what the medical profession calls “cultural competency” is a goal of most health care institutions. However, achieving this goal in today’s health care environment, filled with diverse patient and provider populations, is no easy task. American hospitals are increasingly being staffed by and serving diverse populations. This creates the ideal breeding ground for conflict and misunderstanding among the staff and inferior patient care” (Galanti, 2011). To gain a more thorough understanding of this concept, I will be giving four examples or viewpoints that are completely different, when looking at the Hispanic belief against the Native American point of view.

A lack of cultural competency by physicians in the U.S. that fail to take into account sociocultural differences between themselves and their patients, produces many barriers to health that are negatively affecting Hispanics and their families (including immigrants and their American born children). These cultural barriers caused by differences in language or culture lead to miscommunications, noncompliance/partial compliance to medications and health promotion strategies, and misunderstandings that can lead to a misdiagnosis or inadequate treatments that fail to meet Hispanics unique needs. Consequently, the barriers Hispanics face in the U.S. health care system is forcing them to seek dangerous alternative forms of treatment (e.g., folk medicine),

The Institute of Medicine’s Report on Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial/Ethical Disparities in Health Care states that cultural bias is one contributor to racial and ethnic minorities having higher rates of poor health outcomes than Whites in the case of disease; even when income, employment

In a perfect world, race, ethnicity and culture would have no negative effect on the medical care we receive, yet problems do arise and it affects the quality of care the patient receives. Language barrier, poor socioeconomic status, and poor health literacy also contribute to health care disparity. For Lia, it was more than her skin color, it was all of the above, her parents did not speak English and they were illiterate. They had trouble understanding the American healthcare system, had trouble or little interest in adjusting to or understanding the American culture. They didn’t work, which in addition to cross cultural misunderstanding, helped contribute to animosity between the Hmong and the host community, because some in the Merced area did not like or appreciate the fact that some Hmong did not work and relied on welfare to make ends meet. All these factors, contributed to the poor quality of

Iannotta, Joah G. Emerging Issues in Hispanic Health: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, D.C.: National Academies, 2002. Print.

Immigrants are faced with a lot of barriers when it comes to taking full advantage of basic preventive care services available to them. Of the diverse population of immigrants coming to the United States, over half (53%) of them are older Hispanics from Latin America (Strunk, Townsend-Rocchiccioli, & Sanford, 2013). This paper focuses on US-dwelling Hispanics, aged 65 years old and above. This paper will depict how failing to acculturate, lacking financial resources, and having limited ability to communicate in English pose a challenge for the older Hispanic population to obtain high quality and cost-effective patient care.

It is important to understand how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also know as the Affordable Care Act and usually referred to as the Obamacare affordable care act works and the functionality of it. The Affordable Care Act has insured over 20 million people, which was signed back in law in 2010 and signed by the 44th President Barack Obama. This paper will discuss various aspect of the Affordable Care Act, cultural assessment of the Hispanic group, and chapter six case study.

There are vulnerable groups that have significant problems in the health care system, due to this population being made vulnerable because of their financial circumstances or place of residence, health, age, race, mental or physical state. Access to health care across different populations are the main reason for current disparities in the United States health care system. Moreover, with a large amount attention being given to racial disparities in health, the meaning of race has come under increased scientific examination. (Sondik, 1997) Consequently, race remains to be one of the most politically charged topics in American life, because it's linked to sociocultural element often has led to classifications that have been ambiguous and improperly

There continues to be racial and ethnic disparities in the United States, and these problems need to be addressed since the rate of racial/ethnic populations in the country are steadily rising. According to the 2001 United States Census, “racial/ethnic minority populations are growing at such a fast rate that by 2050 more than 50% of the population will belong to a minority group” (Weech-Maldonado, Al-Amin, Nishimi, Salam, 2011). Race and ethnicity should not determine the levels of health care people receive. Certain races have genetic predispositions for certain diseases and that fact cannot be changed. However, the differences among race for things such as treatment, access to health care, and availability of medicine should not be as great as they are. One of the most important disparities that exists between racial/ethnic groups is access to care, specifically how access to care is limited due to treatment not being tailored to the needs of different minorities.

Findings in a report with dates from 1975-2003 reported “data on socioeconomic status (SES), behavioral risk factors, and cancer screening by race, ethnicity, and Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban groups”2. Not having access to healthcare is one of the leading factors of why cancer rates among the Hispanic/Latino population is so high. In fact, “Latinos are less likely than non-Latinos to have health care coverage, especially when they are younger than 65 years”2 because of their income. And “Hispanic persons are much less likely to have a regular source of medical care than are non-Hispanic populations, with Latino men being the least likely”2. “Access to state-of-the-art, quality cancer care is known to be unequal and to exacerbate existing disparities in cancer outcomes”2 which is unfair and

This program will help to bring healthcare education services closer to the people in my community. Personally, I encountered many challenges in my childhood due to poor health care services in the community. The idea of having access to a good healthcare provider was unheard of in the Latino circle because they were unreachable and expensive. Secondly, affordability of the healthcare due to high costs of having health insurance was also popular among the Latino community. For those who could access medical facilities, the challenge was related to the health insurances did not cover all their needs. These challenges were too pronounced. They influence my desire to enroll in this program because I seek to change the situation back at home. Through

The United States is a melting pot of ethnicity, in which, the healthcare system and its benefits vary widely. Those who are able to obtain primary care insurance via a full time employer, typically have the benefits of full coverage care. However, for many minority groups, full time work alone is hard to acquire, along with the health benefits full time employment provides. Culturally competent care among the diverse populations helps increase health promotion and gain a cultural perspective. One of these mentioned groups is the Hispanic population which is steadily increasing within the United States.

At the present time, approximately 70% of our workforce is white and 30 % comprising of Blacks, Hispanics and non-Caucasians. In addition, these percentages appear to mimic the population that we serve. According to the US Census (2010), the community in which services are provided is comprised of 80.9% Whites, 14.9% Black and 12.1% Hispanic. These figures alone may lead one to believe that the occurrence of healthcare disparities is low, but

The studies established that racial and ethnic minorities mostly receive poor quality care, have poor access to healthcare, and experience greater health deficits compared to their white counterparts. The predisposing features, taken from the same data, further indicate that Blacks, Alaska Natives, and American Indians receive poor quality care when compared with the Whites within the core measures of 40 percent. The Hispanics were the recipients of poorer quality of care in comparison with the non-Hispanic whites, on 60 percent of the core measures (BPHC, 2015). The disparity figures keep on rising every day. Further, there is an estimated 40 million poor people who live in the United States. This number is contributed to by 24% of blacks; Hispanics contributes to 21% of the poor people, 10 for Asians as whites constitute 8% percent of the poor population (BPHC, 2015). Notably, poor people record worse access to healthcare services compared to the high income population segments on all core measures. Quantitatively, poor people access lower quality of care on about 80% of all the core measures (Bureau of Primary Health Care, 2015). Questions are therefore asked of whether the healthcare industry should be segmented based on some criteria that favor some segments over the other. By taking a look at the different nursing theories below, the healthcare industry may learn a

Currently, there is an incidence of patient safety events in hospitals, and sadly these events occur more often in the care for immigrant patients in comparison with patients born in the United States. Although this data proposes a drawback in the medical community, I believe the first step in reducing this disparity is elimination of cultural barriers in health care. Patients are not as homogenous as they used to be in the past, as the United States has incorporated diverse immigrant and cultural groups and continues to attract people from around the globe. Population experts predict the United States will become a majority “minority” nation by 2050 (Johnson, 2016), which is indicative of the nation’s altering demographics. These statistics