Health Care Model 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.

Disparity in health may be referring to the differences in health outcomes and health outcome reception by different people within a given population. These differences are depicted in ethnical/ racial, social, geographical, cultural and economic contexts. This is seen in the issues of mortality and morbidity among people from different ethnical backgrounds. It is clear that individuals belong to the minor groups, with respect to race, are more affected by high blood pressure. The Asian American subgroup and the African Americans are the leading groups that record high mortality rates because of high blood pressure. Study shows that among the adults between the years of 65 and 92 suffering from hypertension; only half of them have their blood pressure under

Healthy People 2020 discusses a number of special population’s that have barriers to care including; race, age sex, sexual identity, age, disability, socioeconomic, and location; this post will discuss race (ethnic) group.  There are a number of races mentioned in healthy people 2020, such as, Asian, American Indian, Alaskan, Latino and African American (Healthy People 2020, n.d.). Access to health care in an ethnic group is multifaceted from the lack of trust, lack of health care education, discrimination and cost of care including health insurance. According to Howard, Peace, & Howard (2014), African Americans have a greater risk of three preventable diseases, hypertension, renal failure and bacterial infections stating; “no other disease

In today’s society, there are many different factors that can contribute to one’s overall health and well-being. Since there are so many different factors that can affect one’s health, there are inequalities that exist among people and this is knows as health disparity. "Health disparities are differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups in the United States” (Nhlbi.nih.gov, 2015). Health disparities can be associated with factors such as: socioeconomic status, education, gender, race, ethnicity, age, mental health, and religion. There are certain health problems that can affect different groups more than others, such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS (Surgeongeneral.gov, 2015). One example of a specific population in the United States that is affected by health disparities is the African American Population. While African Americans are affected by various health disparities, one that affects this population more prominently is heart disease.

Health disparities are not based on income but on location. In Chicago, health disparities are a major problem because of segregation. While, on the Northside, someone is less likely to experience health disparities, it’s different on the South and West Sides. When someone looks at a map, they do not see how segregated a city is, but when someone is analyzing a certain neighborhood in Chicago, they will be able to see how segregated the city is. A study shows how neighborhoods in

One issue with underserved populations is an increase in health disparities, not only race and ethnicity, but also gender and age. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (2014) list a number of key findings from a report on underserved populations and health care. Mortality rates from certain diseases and different types of death were higher in different racial groups than Caucasians (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Morbidity of asthma, oral disease, tuberculosis, obesity, and diabetes were also higher in minority groups (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Preventive screening for the over-50 population was just over 60%

Bibbins-Domingo et al. (2009) conducted an empirical examination into rates of heart failure among young adults. The article outlines the unfortunate fact that there is little empirical knowledge regarding the rates of heart failure within the young adult populations. This knowledge is even worse when it comes to examining minority populations, especially within the African American community that is increasingly vulnerable to heart conditions. With heart failure and other cardio conditions being such a prevalent problem in the United States, it is imperative that current discourse understand it much more than we do now. Thus, the purpose of this study was to better document and analyzes the incidences of heart failure in young adults, as to better describe any patterns or correlations within the group that would help provide better information. The overall hypothesis of the study was that African American populations were more likely to be vulnerable at this younger stage than their white counterparts. To meet this purpose, the study implemented an empirical study that examined heart failures of 5115 African American and white young adults, ages 18-30, over a period of 20 years. Results clearly showed that African American youth were at a much higher rate of early heart failure, as the study showed that out of the participants 27 had heart failure and 26 of those individuals were African American. This lead the study to

In the United States, the 1990 death rates for stroke were 28% for White males and 56% for Black males, 24% for White females, and 43% for Black females. In 1990, coronary heart disease death rates were 1.3% higher for Black males than White males and 29.4% higher for Black females than White females. It is important to note, however, that of those with coronary heart disease, 88.2% are White, 9.5% are Black, and 2.4% are of other races (American Heart Association, 1993).

In the United States (U.S.) 117 million adults have chronic diseases, approximately 24.3% of this population has at least one chronic disease and 26% has multiple chronic diseases (Ward, Schiller et al. 2014). Seven of the top 10 causes of deaths in the U.S. are chronic diseases (Statistics 2016). Incidence and mortality rates are different for different racial groups (CDC MMWR, 2013); African Americans (AA) particularly experience higher incidence and mortality rates for chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease (CDC, 2013). Furthermore, African Americans in South Carolina (SC) have some of the largest health disparities in the nation (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and

The cornerstone of the care model presented in this article is partnership. The partnership among HIV Alliance, LCC, and Community Health Centers of Lane County was based on the recognition that no one entity could effectively tackle the problem of inadequate access to dental care. The partners built on existing strengths to bring to the table key resources, such as expertise in oral health-care delivery, training, and case management, as well as clinical infrastruc- ture, providers, and access to liability insurance. This collaboration experienced some challenges early on, underestimating the time needed to identify and assign roles and responsibilities. Extensive discussion and effort were needed to reach a consensus on key issues, but in the end, these challenges helped to strengthen the collaboration.

One of the many global health issues that interests me is heart disease. Heart disease has been a major issue for many of the patient’s that I come across in the hospital. It seems to have become an epidemic. At one point heart disease was an uncommon cause of death until about the 21st century which it now has become the leading cause of death (CDC 2013).

In this section, I will propose my solutions to making the American health care system more effective. Although the causes section of this paper introduces five topics, I will only be addressing the lack of primary care physicians and the inefficient payment system. The others are very important causes of the low health status, however, the solutions to these are far too extensive and can each be detailed in papers of their own. Moreover, it is in my belief that my plan of altering the health care legislation and infrastructure will reduce the effect of those causes.

This talk about the chronic care model describes the chronic care model itself. One of the most important aspects that can be taken from the video is that of the description of chronic illness. This talk describes it “very broadly to include any condition that requires ongoing activities and responses from patients and their caregivers as well as a response from the medical care system.” It is important to note this so that you are aware of what is included in their description of chronic care. Another important take away from this talk was that of the fact that most providers did provide accurate care “some of the time”, but not all of the time. This was not what was originally thought. Before this realization, it was believed that there

The salient aim of the health care system is to provide patients with superlative care and medical treatment. However, it has been established that healthcare workers often have to subsist with poorly designed equipment, which hinders their ability to provide optimum care for patients and often leads to life threatening medical errors (West et al. 2014). To combat this problem, the design team, West et al., employed an interdisciplinary, evidence based approach to “Design out Medical Error” (DOME) from health care systems. One of the areas arising from this tasks included redesigning five high risk processes defined by hospital staff and patients. The advantage of addressing multiple processes at once, is that an integrated solution could

Throughout the history of the United States, two things have always afflicted this great nation: inequality and disease. They have always had an effect on each other, as diseases have affected those from lower classes differently from those from upper classes. In our modern U.S. society, we face a specific disease, heart disease, which is now the leading cause of death in the United States and is part of a complex system of social problems (Center for Disease Control).