BFSS Data Analysis

1:2 Explain how multiple conditions and/or disabilities many have an additional impact on the individual’s well being and quality of life.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 49 million Americans without healthcare insurance and more than 10 million are non-U.S. citizens (http://www.census.gov). Because many people are uninsured and those that do have insurance pay high deductibles, Americans often dismiss the need for doctor’s visits for minor problems or annual physicals. As a result, health problems that can be detected at an early stage or prevented altogether become major illnesses. Individuals with disabilities hold one of the biggest weaknesses in the healthcare system because they cannot often obtain affordable health coverage.

There are others areas of healthcare disparities to look into, such as immigrants and sexual orientation but for the purpose of this paper the following types will be the main areas discussed. The types of disparities of concern in this paper will include racial or ethnicity, gender, disabilities, socioeconomic, and geographic (Promotion, 2014). When looking into the racial or ethnic disparities, the population identifies themselves as racial or ethnic minority groups. Some examples of this population could

Society often focuses on what a person lacks in terms of disability and focuses on condition or illness or a person’s lack of ability. Medical model of disability which views adults has having an impairment or lacking in some way

In Article review 3, the results showed that “associations between race, education, and IRPP are important because they were the main causes of the differences in the disability rates.” (Fuller-Thomson, 2009)

The Department of Health and Human Services and their partners continue to strive to meet the needs of all people regardless what the socioeconomic statuses are. DHHS focus is to encourage all people to become healthy. As many believe, that being healthy starts at home, schools, community and your workplace. Studies suggest that being healthy consist of one taking good care of themselves and their health needs, eating healthy, and not smoking or drinking. With the available resources that all will be able to have access to social and economic opportunities that consist of resources. Healthiness also consist of the cleanliness of your surroundings, water, air and nature. Through various partnerships of DHHS, the continuous of

Which allowed for them to get more data that was associated with Black–White differences in the rates for functional limitations and ADL limitations. They were also able to make many subcategories that allowed for data on other levels that might also contribute to the disability rates. The sample size for the survey was able to explain that the disability rates were so varied based more on education and poverty level rather than sex and race, even though both were factors. The weaknesses and the limitations of this article out way the strengths in my opinion. The article states many limitations that they have for their own survey: “Our study had several important limitations. First, the data were cross-sectional, preventing us from assessing causality and from using a life-course perspective which has proven useful for elucidating the onset of disability. Second, our measures of disability did not distinguish between onset and progression of functional and ADL limitations. Third, only self-reports of functional and ADL limitations were available, which could have resulted in some under-or overreporting, underscoring the need to supplement this study with others that include objective assessments. Fourth, we were unable to control for such behavioral risk factors as smoking and drinking behavior which were not available in this data set. However, earlier researchers have demonstrated a strong association between functional limitations and SES even when these behavioral factors were controlled. We also were unable to control for comorbidities such as obesity or health insurance status, which, as stated above, may play a role in explaining the SES/disability relationship. Fifth, our study’s reliance solely on income rather than household wealth constitutes another limitation, particularly in studies of older people, for whom wealth measures (e.g., equity in a house) often hold particular

The disabled population is the population often associated with opioid abuse and frequent emergency department utilization which are the two health concerns I would like to discuss.

the effects of a particular disability; it must be based on an individual assessment that

People with disabilities have to face more within the health care system and obtaining access to care. Disability is not the same as poor health, persons with disabilities are less likely to work or have to work less hours and many have to obtain employer-sponsored health insurance. My paper focuses on access to health care for persons with disabilities (for me it is Multiple Sclerosis). In this paper I will discuss utilization and cost of services, and health insurance coverage of persons with disabilities.

The disability community is the largest minority group in the country. It includes people of

After reading the article, “Chronic Illness Impact and Interventions, Chapter 1 – Chronicity,” I have come across multiple of topics that seems to be more of an issue, than of an individual having a chronic illness and disability. As in the article, “adults age, the healthcare system, the “healthy” predication of individuals, quality of care, health disparities, culture, social influences, and financial cost” is what is causing the longevity of chronic illness and disability (Lubkin & Larsen, 2009, pgs. 6-13).

Did you know that over a billion people, about 15% of the world’s population have some form of disability? There are three topic people with disability have less access to health care services and therefore experience unmet health care needs. Rate of disability are increasing due to the population ageing and increasing in chronic health conditions among other causes. People with disabilities may include

The National Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (NDS) came about because in a federal system where state governments have different arrangements, services depending in where people with disabilities lived were uniformly unfair or fragmented. Thus, The National Disability Strategy 2010-2020 was an attempt to create a single, nationally consistent, equitable, fair and sustainable policy so people with disabilities could live good lives. Therefore, the NDS is for the commonwealth and state governments. It guides public policy to improve access and make sure the rights of people with disability are considered.

All participants in The 90+ Study were mailed a questionnaire regarding demographics, past medical history, and medication use. Participants were asked to identify an informant, a person who would be able to provide researchers with information about their functional abilities via mail and telephone. A questionnaire was mailed to the informant asking about the participant’s functional abilities. In 57.8 % of the cases, the informant was a son/daughter or son/daughter-in-law. Other informants included siblings, neighbors or paid caregivers (18.5%), spouses (10.2%) or some other (13.5%). This questionnaire included the Katz index of ADLs25, which is one of the most widely used scale for measuring disability with well established reliability26 and