Inequalities In Health Care

With the increasing immigrant population a third barrier affecting access to health care is a cultural barrier. Culture barriers can include values and beliefs, language and race and ethnicity. Health beliefs and behavior can become a barrier when patients decide not to seek medical treatment and instead turn to home remedies and healers when treating illnesses. Approximately 10% of Americans speak a language other than English and can be classified ad being limited in their proficiency. For these patients language becomes a barrier and they are less likely to receive optimal medical treatment (Flores, 2006). Horton and Johnson (2010) stress the importance of communication in reducing disparities and increasing the trust of patients in the health care system. As reported by the American College of Physicians, evidence reveals that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to receive inferior care when compared with non-minorities. This occurs even when minorities have access to insurance and adequate income (Racial and ethnic disparities in health care, 2010).

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, spiritual and social wellbeing, and not just the absence of disease” (WHO, 1974). Health inequalities are the differences in health or healthcare opportunities in different societies this may be due to income,

Widening economic inequality in the United States is being accompanied by increasing health care disparity. While the health care system seeks to provide health care as a human right, it fails to do so often worsening the disparities (Dickman, Himmelstein, & Woolhandler, 2017). While health care today has made major strides, there are many people who are still suffering from health care system injustices. Of the people who are still uninsured a majority of them are in the middle-working class or those living in poverty. Poor Americans have less access to health care than wealthy Americans. The life expectancy gap between the rich and poor continues to widen. Health care in poor communities is too often neglected. This issue has been a trend in the United States for many years. In Abraham’s book, Mama might be better off dead these very same inequalities are evident for the Banes family. Because of these inequalities, preventive illness becomes life threatening causing care to then become extensive and even more expensive.

Evidence show that people from lower class backgrounds and ethnic minority’s backgrounds are more likely to suffer more health problems to the majority ethnic group this shows a pattern of inequality.

Everyday people have to deal with healthcare issues, and often time the healthcare system cannot understand the needs of these people. Considering a young adult woman, unemployed suffered from a chronic disease, has no health insurance, and unable to pay for her medication. She goes to a clinic in desperate need of help. A nurse tries to assist her, but because of healthcare barriers and lack of insurance, it takes several months to get her the help she needs. Some people could have health insurance and cannot have access to the care they needs because their insurance company does not want to pay the cost. Unfortunately, it is the reality that facing many Florida residents. Many studies have identified and addressed the factors that lead to

Ottina, we live in a country where healthcare is a profitable business for the riches. I recall in Obamacare that the government subsidized the premiums for the poor and people below the poverty guidelines. I do not agree with that at all. The government could impel health insurance providers to lower the premiums in exchange for a tax cut. Instead, The Obamacare used tax dollars to pay hundreds of dollars for each citizen and bring more customers to healthcare providers and insurance providers.It would always be repealed by another government because of health disparities in this country. Race discrimination, poverty guidelines, and health statuses are linked. Health care should have been available to everyone regardless the income and the

Thomas Piketty, an eminent economist has shot to fame because of his theories of rising global inequality in wealth. Research shows that for every $1.00 owned by the world's richest 1% in 2011, they now own $1.27. They own almost half the world's wealth. Just 70 of them own as much as 3.5 billion people.

The unequal treatment or access to health care in the United States leads to this inequity in the health care system. For example, about half or more of the Hispanics and Asian Americans with chronic conditions were not given plans to manage their conditions at home (Diamond). This means that while these Hispanic and Asian American received care by a primary or specialized physician at a hospital, they did know how to continue with their treatment or care at home. As I previously stated, health is much more than health care, and on this case education, income, and the ethnic groups of the patients are also a vital part of what their health is. As a personal experience, I know that for the Mexican culture, tortillas are an essential part of a diet, but chronic patients, such as diabetic patients, are recommended to have a low-carbs diet in which tortillas are not included. A Mexican or Mexican-American patient in the U.S. with diabetes might have to be taught about why and how to change his or her diet in

Income-related health inequalities is a significant issue which is widely spread across the globe. The issue is not limited to the developing countries, yet it has spread to the developed countries like Australia. From the beginning of the 21st century, income inequality is growing across the states of Australia and the level of inequality fluctuates rapidly. As a result of income inequality, it impacts on the factors like health, education. This cross-sectional study aims to discern the trends, and prevalence of income-related health inequalities between 2001 and 2011 among the working population of Australia, age range between 20 years to 65 years old. A 1000 sample will be used from Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey

This assignment will critique the phenomenon of suspension within the NHS and explore the inequalities in how the Department of Health (DOH) manage this process. This will focus upon the differences between how medics (doctors and dentists) and nurses are managed within the NHS. The number of those affected by the process of suspension will be highlighted and there will be a discussion of the policies and procedures available to these professionals working within the NHS. A brief description of why suspension occurs will be offered and the experience of those affected by the process of suspension will be examined which will look at stress; in particular within nursing, bullying and harassment and look at how whistleblowers are treated.

Sexual and social stigmas largely affect the health of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population. While many reports from the Institute of Medicine, Healthy People 2020 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recognize a need to improve the quality of health care, barriers still remain. LGBT patients face legal discrimination, especially with insurance, a lack of social programs, and limited access to providers competent in LGBT health care. Although the Affordable Care Act increased access to care for LGBT patients, unless these patients feel understood by providers and develop trust in the system, they are not likely to utilize care. Healthcare providers need to recognize how these vulnerabilities, as well as persistent racism and stigma linked to sexual orientation and gender identity, make the healthcare needs of LGBT patients more challenging than the general population. Healthcare providers also need to promote cultural competence within this population and broaden their clinical lens to include health promotion, in addition to addressing concerns mentioned above within the population. Additionally, medical and nursing schools need to ensure that future providers are adequately educated by including information about this population in the curriculum.

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The United States is world renowned for having the best health care if not the most accessible. Citizens have at their disposal a plethora of hospitals, physicians, and therapists to improve their well-being. Statistical data was taken back in 2010 under the Central Texas Region and studied health care coverage and income in regards to the community. The data displayed in the surveys heavily suggest that income/ health in general have a high correlation. The issue that arose with the given data imply that those who are on the lower end of the income spectrum subsequently have no health care coverage and poorer health than those with higher income. In any case with high correlation there are a number of factors influencing the statistical evidence, and in this case sociological barriers are present in regards of inequality and health care.

In the critical reflection 2, we will be recalling the term health inequality. And, find out the importance of needing a policy to answer the necessity of health disparity. In the first section of the paper, two of the policy solutions will be introduced and will also mention how these policies affect population, and the policy maker. The other section will state the pros and cons of the policies from the writer’s perspective. Finally, the conclusion emphasizes on the significance of answering health disparity by using the policies and how it helps to reduce the inequality.

The Behavioural or Cultural Explanation: places emphasis on the individuals and the consequences of their behaviour, when they choose to eat, drink and live healthily the inequalities will be reduced.