Health Disparity And Structural Violence: Article Analysis

it. Not everyone has access to health insurance and there are those that are underinsured. “ In

Some of the reasons some of the individuals may not want to buy health insurance the deductibles and premiums are very high and you pay way to much money for it. You also have to qualify for private health insurance.

The article Health Disparity and Structural Violence: How Fear Undermines Health Among Immigrants at Risk for Diabetes was extremely informative. The article identified “three dimensions of fear including (a) Cost; (b) Language,

Fear about health care cost is a major barrier to health care for AYA, specifically for lower-income and uninsured AYA. AYA who do have health insurance often are concerned about their confidentiality. Whether AYA are insured or not, cost may be a major factor in whether they seek medical care. It is important that clinics offer free or low-cost services whenever possible to ensure that AYA get the services they need (Advocates for Youth, 2008).

Living in the United States, there is one essential thing you need to have, which is health insurance. Health insurance is a type of insurance that can covers cost of medical and surgical expenses when you need them. Without health insurance, the cost of one single surgery would be a enormous number. But in the United States, there are about 46 million americans are uninsured. To them, the cost of health insurance is too high. In America, the average cost of health insurance per month is about $328 and the minimum wage per hour in here is $7.25(where cite from?). From here, we can conclude that it is too expensive for those people to get sick. So, is the health insurance cost unjustifiably high? The answer is the highly developed technology, waste of health care budget and the free competitor in the health insurance market, caused health insurance’s price to remain so high.

With the current healthcare system in the United States there are many people who do not have health insurance due to cost.

So why don’t these people get insurance? Well, as is so often quoted, “money makes the world go round.” When it comes to health insurance however, it is not the world, but only America that seems to have a problem with providing health care for a reasonable price to its citizens. 55 percent of uninsured people answered that the reason they are without the safety of insurance is the reason everyone expects--they cannot afford it (NRHA 1).

Diabetes  is a serious health condition that is a chronic illness for the African Americans. Diabetes preventions strategies in African American community can be a tricky task to contain and prevent for several reasons I will discuss in this paper.

     Most of the people who are uninsured are the working poor, which the overall costs of medical care can hurt them. By the means of doing their best, these people just can’t afford the insurance. Health care has become increasingly unaffordable for businesses and individuals. (Reese) Premiums grow several

It is estimated there are between 20,000 and 45,000 deaths a year due to lack of health insurance. “The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured…”, Andrew Wilper, M.D. Isn’t that sad? There shouldn’t be long hours of waiting before a patient can be treated just because he or she is uninsured. If it is an urgent matter, then we all should get equal treatment, don’t you

According to anthropologists, the impact of structural violence can be best represented by analyzing the global disparities in health and healthcare. The continuous violence employed by everyone who belong to a specific social order (Farmer, 2004: 315), structural violence, “at the root of much terrorism and bombardment, is much more likely to wither bodies slowly, very often through infectious diseases” (Farmer, 2004: 315). Furthermore, the imbalance in health and healthcare maintains a close relationship to “social inequality, including racism and gender inequality” (Farmer, 2004: 307), generating a higher impact on developing countries such as Vietnam, Haiti, Venezuela and Liberia. Although the effects upon each region might be divergent,

Someone without health coverage are less likely to receive preventative care and therefore more likely to become ill which increases medical costs, [1].

Financial burdens greatly limit the system’s accessibility; however, many in the U.S. are unable to fully utilize either option. Census estimates from 1999 indicate that 43 million Americans live without health insurance even though 75 percent of them have a full-time job or live in a household with at least one member working full-time (Mueller, , 5) In addition to the totally uninsured, census estimates also reveal that approximately 42 million other people in the U.S. are underinsured. This means that they have some insurance, but are still unable to afford all of their needed prescriptions, tests, visits to physicians, or hospital

This correlates with a higher population of women with chronic diseases, which increases mortality rates if they are uninsured and unable to pay for their medical needs. Furthermore, if the woman is insured but it costs her too much to regularly visit her doctor and a disease

In an article on the Uninsured it states that “Lack of coverage increases the unpredictability of medical expenses and the potential for financial catastrophe, including bankruptcy” (Content.healthaffairs.org). The stress that is added when trying to plan financially can become overwhelming, “even for the majority of Americans who have coverage, maintaining it is not a sure thing, and the prospect of losing it can cause anxiety