Challenges That Affect Health And Access To Care

Barriers to healthcare include factors that restrict or hinder people from receiving adequate and quality health care service. Health care disparities are those differences that negatively affects less advantaged group (Mehta, 2014). Health care barriers play a significant role in comprehending causes of disparities. This paper will discuss the obstacles and disparities that exist and affects healthcare.

Conclusively, low socioeconomic disparities, lack of proper access to health care services, grievous historical medical experiences, lack of awareness along with distrust are some of the leading setbacks within the Black American sectors relationship with the health care system. Thereupon, it is in the hands of the medical community and the hands of the vulnerable population to gain a common ground for productive trust. Hopefully, through new studies, with the reduction of distrust towards the health care system, the Black American can assuredly facilitate services to accessing health care and a developed foundation of trust from the health care

Even when access-associated factors, such as insurance and income are considered, minorities continue to have higher rates of disease with shorter life expectancy. They tend to have a poorer quality of health care than non-minorities, increasing the demand and importance of culturally competent health care in the United States. The ability of the healthcare provider to communicate with his or her patient's aides in discouraging barriers to accessing healthcare.

Health disparities among African-Americans is a continuing problem that has been seen over many years. African-Americans have higher poverty rates, have lower rates of insurance coverage, and are more likely to be covered by Medicaid, than the White population (Copeland, 2005). This lack of insurance has led many of these individuals, to not seek treatment for illness, due to problem accessing health care (Kennedy, 2013). This leaves African-Americans with little to no treatment, which causes an increase of medical care that will be needed further on in their life or a sooner than expected death, caused by illness (Copeland, 2005).

After analysis of some contributing factors to health care disparities, this section will now discuss some implementations and interventions that may be able to narrow the gap of disparities amongst African American and their counterparts. A few of these interventions have been implemented already and have shown promising data and others are suggestions that may be able to display vast improvement and advances in today’s health care system. HAVING MORE AFRICAN AMERICAN PHYSICIANS: Research has shown that African American physicians tend to hold practices in underserved communities with the highest amount of African American residents. For example, Komaromy et al conducted a study to exaimine the role of Black and Hispanic physicians’

The United States (US) health care system is changing dramatically. The Affordable Care Act is a catalyst that is spurring change by the promotion of two drivers: access and primary preventative care. Before the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, over 47 million Americans were uninsured thus denying them access to basic health care (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2012). Increasing access and increasing the availability of primary care services (pre-natal care, preventative care, primary disease prevention, and secondary disease

Diversification continues to rise in the United States which results in an increase in poverty level living and lower levels of educational achievement. The mixture of low education and an increase in poverty effects individual and population health. Additionally, health disparities are growing and impacting the health care field. Cultural competency and communication across language barriers are influential in producing quality care for socioeconomically challenged minorities. However, educational attainment and health literacy are the most influential factors for minorities’ well-being. Better quality of care for minorities ultimately results in an improvement in population health.

When it comes to healthcare racial disparities continue to be an ongoing issue. In fact racial disparities have been a topic of discussion since desegregation. The US Department of Health and Human Services, in 1984 published a report that called attention to the healthcare disparities. The report was called Heath, United States 1983(Dougher, 2015). Within the context of the report there lies a passage that describes the major disparities that are within the burden of illness and death that is experienced by African Americans and other minorities, “despite significant progress in the overall health of the nation” (Dougher, 2015). It was evident that there was a serious lack of health care minorities.

Improving access to care is imperative to seeing healthcare costs decrease. The cost that could be saved with increased patient access could be as high as $5.2 million (Hamlin, 2015). Access to care affects many aspects of healthcare that are not obvious. For example, patient experience, outcomes, and compliance are all better because of increased access to care.

My understanding of major forces affecting the delivery of health services. There is an ongoing obstruction in communication within our communities and our healthcare system. Which has affected Health Care Costs, Access to Care and a growing distrust toward the health care organizations.

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

The health care industry exist to provide preventative measures, diagnose health conditions, repair, and provide services to improve the quality of life. The cost of health care continues to rise each year. Health care fraud is a factor that continues to plague the health care industry. The affect health care fraud has on hospitals, is the increasing cost of medical services. The following research will examine and evaluate how organizational structure and governance, culture and the lack of focus on social responsibility affects on health care fraud. The following research will also include recommendations for prevention of health care fraud, recommendations for

As stated in the “Overview,” eligible Hispanics compose a considerable percentage of California’s uninsured population, even post-ACA rollout. The remainder of this section will discuss the specific barriers to health care shared by ineligible, undocumented Hispanic Californian immigrants and eligible, yet uninsured Hispanic Californians.

A simple internet search indicates that Hawai'i is one of the most beautiful places on earth. There are six major islands and over 1.4 million people living in Hawai'i. Approximately 70% of the population live on the island of Oahu (US Census Bureau 2017) and it is the heart of government and business. In 2017, the State hosted visitors totaling more than six times the population (Hawai'i Tourism Authority 2017). These visitors are doubtlessly delighted to visit Hawai'i and take part in any number of activities while being completely unaware of the danger they face. The beaches of Hawai'i are famous, drawing millions to their shores. These same beaches are also the most deadly in the United States. The

Health care costs in America have been on the rise for quite some time. Majority of employees obtain some level of health care insurance through their employees. Despite 15.7% of the U.S. population not having any source of health care, accessibility and accessibility continues to rise due to soaring health care costs (Cole & McCullough, 2006). Private sector company’s, such as GMFC, are faced with making harsh financial decisions on benefits impacting their employees.