Rlt4 Task 4

One area where access to care is a problem is in the rural communities. Healthcare professionals including physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses all affect the quality and cost of care (Derksen, & Whelan, 2009). Going forward importance needs to be placed on using recourses more efficiently and effectively; these resources include but are not limited to tests, prescriptions,

The National Center for Learning Disabilities (2016) or NCLD was founded in 1977. Based on information provided by NCLD (2016) their mission is to improve the lives of children and adults with learning and attention issues. The National Center for Learning Disabilities (2016) advocates for equal rights and opportunities for the learning disabled community by providing programs and reporting on related issues. The NCLD (2016) website gives access and information on programs that cater to parents, young adults, professionals, and educators about learning disabilities.I appreciate The NCLD (2016) website provides for children and their parents as well as professionals. As a future educator, i welcome any additional resources I can use in the future for my own classroom or even aide another colleague. I especially appreciate the Get Ready to Read program(2016) “a free early Learning Resource” Intended for educators .However I believe, parents can use the Get Ready to Read program(2016) for their own kids who are not yet in school or as a extra teaching tool in conjunction with their children's

Rural areas need improved access to care. While all the solutions discussed, would be great solutions and would be able to help with increased access to care it is important to have one solution that is here to stay. With funding being a concern in many areas of government; healthcare should not depend solely on more funding. While transportation is a valid option to help in resolving the rural healthcare situation it has many pitfalls as well (Cronk, 2015). As we all know weather can cause havoc with

Our survey was designed to articulate where barriers to adequate health care derive. Questions involved identifying specific personal barriers; for example, one questions asked participants to identify and rank barriers associated with health care accessibility. Another question asked participants to identify situational factors that influence health care outcomes. Ultimately our questions, identified personal and community transportation barriers that collectively inhibit health access and

Rural residents need access to healthcare. These residents should have the ability to receive primary care in a convenient setting and do it confidently. “According to healthy People 2020, access to healthcare is

Background: Appalachia America consists of 13 states, 420 counties, and has a multicultural population of 23 million. Despite being a sizeable population and having access to health care, people of the Appalachian region do not receive regular health care. This review of the literature is to identify the obstacles Appalachian families must overcome to access health care and determine the reasons why the people of the Appalachian region do not seek health care.

One of the characteristics that exemplify rural healthcare is the lack of doctors per capita. Statistics show that there is an unequal distribution of health care; more services are targeted and provided for the urban population. According to a study in Rickett’s book, Rural Health in the United States, 20% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas; however, only 8% of doctors serve the rural community. These residents also face the challenge of finding specialized doctors for their specific needs. In some cases, patients need to travel long distances to get the health care that they need. A study was conducted in which 20,693,828 patients visited a clinic. Based on this study, Patients in the rural areas needed to travel 2 to 3 times

This research paper provides information about factors that need to be considered when providing health care for a rural village with limited access to medicine or doctors. This paper focuses on the income, culture, education, responses and views of the village on medicine. A rural village is generally far from cities, therefore, contact with medicine and doctors are limited. Each factor mentioned within the paper is further elaborated upon through each section.

Throughout this article, the author has discussed the barriers that rural communities are facing in collaboration with the solutions that may work to reduce these barriers that patients face daily. The author elaborated with unknown factors that may stand in the way of those solutions creating a more frustrated healthcare system. The author will propose a solution that may improve the resident’s that are living in rural areas the ability to receive organized healthcare services throughout the community using little to no transportation needed. The Center of Disease Control and Prevention (n.d.) has identified through changing of transportation policies that providing safe, affordable transportation to individuals will cut the cost of healthcare and help support ones’ health.

Transportation barriers are often cited as barriers to health care access (Syed, Gerber, & Sharp, 2013). A study of 200 children with a history of missed medical appointments found that transportation barriers were the primary cause of missing clinic appointments in the majority of instances (51%) (Silver et al., as cited in Syed et al., 2013). Barriers to health care are greater for poorer populations; transportation barriers only act to augment this (Syed et al., 2013). Several studies have found that transportation is a barrier to health care. This is significant, because missed appointments and an inability to reach health care providers means that important assessments of health, and opportunity for detection of diseases, both chronic and acute, are missed (Syed et al., 2013). This has a significant impact on the relatively poor health outcomes experienced by low income families, and is especially detrimental to the developing of poor families (Silver, Blustein, & Weitzman, 2012; Syed et al.,

Healthcare professionals feel as though it is a waste of their time an effort to drive so far out just to provide services to these constituents. The malaise from rural healthcare comes from many vectors which are not subject to population issues, higher advantage of uninsured and elderly patients this leads to a shortage of doctors willing to work in remote areas that creates a quality of care and staffing issues, because the travel distances are sometimes too great (Ripton &Winkler, 2016). This is turn leads to two major problems within the rural areas and they are as follows:

When one looks at the barriers that rural communities face with the issue of health care services, there are a few to discuss. First, lack of transportation is one barrier to look at. In rural areas, there are residents that may not have a car, have funds to put gas in the car, or due to distance in a rural community, have the means to travel that far due to their health condition. In a qualitative study done on barriers that patients with chronic disease face in rural areas, between the years of 2002 to 2012, geographical distance was one of the main barriers that the patients faced. This issue caused many patients to not seek healthcare increasing their vulnerability to possibly decrease their health, according to (Brundisini, Giacomini, DeJean, et al. 2013).

The reason could be that there are many patients to handle due to the amount of doctors, and the doctors know that they need more aid; but due to the population or small pay, there are a few doctors interested in helping. The goal of this performance-based assessment is to emphasize the significant factors of a health care in a rural setting with limited access to doctors and medicine. The setting will focus on rural communities of Hawaii because “On the neighbor islands, especially for the Big Island and West Hawaii, the No. 1 issue is access to health care”(E). Through local and nation resources, factors include economic, social, education, cultural and language differences, transportation, and recognition are discussed regarding health care with limited access to medicine or doctors.

Coronation, Castor and Consort are small towns in rural Alberta. All three lie along highway 12, approximately half an hour from each other. These small towns, although quite distant from each other share one very important thing—a doctor on call. This is becoming a more common trend in rural areas with a decline in health care physicians willing to work in such a secluded area far from amenities. This means that some days a physician is available in one town for as little as an hour or simply not present in the hospital at all. Health care is poor to limited for these rural areas, since there are far more people seeking medical attention than can be properly assisted in a reasonable amount of time. The availability of medical staff is crucial to the quality of health care provided in a hospital (NRHA). There is generally a lack of medical staff including physicians and nurses in rural hospitals. Even the shortage of a single physician is extremely likely to have widespread impacts in a rural community (NAC 2008).

health care for rural areas. Affordability consist of the cost towards health care. With new technologies arising, many patients rely on it. However, there is not much access to telemedicine due to the high cost. Accessibility includes the lack of doctors and supplies provided as well as the distance traveled to their health care provider. Although healthcare is still accessible, the hassle to travel long distances just for a checkup is a bit of an inconvenience. Thus, resulting in more cases of chronic diseases in rural areas.