The Importance Of Diversity In Health Care

This is a report I am writing as part of my work experience portfolio showing how individuals care needs are successfully met. This will be done by talking about equality, diversity and anti-discrimination.

APTA’s Department of Minority/ International Affairs along with the association commitment to cultural competence have presented statements toward access/equity, and advocacy. Steps toward diversity in our profession consist of a mix of multiple initiatives working together. The crescive approach encourage the “doers”, in this case minority faculty members and minority students applying for PT/PTA programs, to become the game changers. Management takes feedback from them and evaluate the proposals. One of the proposals toward the achievement of diversity and attracting faculty and students from different backgrounds is offering educational forums for domestic (i.e. the invisible Appalachian region) and international community service (Dupre, A., Goodgold, S., 2007), allowing the minority members to identify with their patients, learning first-hand about proper health cultural interactions, and receiving profound instruction of cultural mastery in the classrooms and clinical

Diversity is the process where all individuals are respected and valued the same. This means within a health and social care setting all individuals care is not obstructed or compromised by their differences whether this race, religion or gender.

This essay reviews key concepts of culture and diversity in the context of their role in causing and/or making worse disparities in health programs.

Although the United States is a leader in healthcare innovation and spends more money on health care than any other industrialized nation, not all people in the United State benefit equally from this progress as a health care disparity exists between racial and ethnic minorities and white Americans. Health care disparity is defined as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social or economic disadvantage…adversely affecting groups of people who have systematically experienced greater social and/or economic obstacles to health and/or clean environment based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion” (National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities [NPAEHD], 2011, p. 3). Overwhelming evidence shows that racial and ethnic minorities receive inferior quality health care compared to white Americans, and multiple factors contribute to these disparities, including geography, lack of access to adequate health coverage, communication difficulties between patients and providers, cultural barriers, and lack of access to providers (American College of Physicians,

Healthcare disparities have been an issue all over the world for a very long time. The purpose of this paper is to give you knowledge on disparities within the health care environment. This paper will discuss the definition of disparities, types of disparities, reasons for disparities, statistical data from trends and reports, and information on disparities elimination and improvements.

Disparities in health and health care in the United States have been a longstanding challenge resulting in some groups receiving less and lower quality health care than others and experiencing poorer health outcomes. Hispanics, Blacks, American Indians/Alaska Natives, and low-income individuals are more likely to be uninsured relative to Whites and those with higher incomes. Low-income individuals and people of color also face increased barriers to accessing care, receive poorer quality care, and experience worse health outcomes. The Department of Health and Human Services Disparities Action Plan (HHS) sets out a series of priorities, strategies, actions, and goals to achieve a vision of a nation free of disparities in health and health care.

Minority health disparities continue to be a pervasive problem within the United States.The Institute of Medicine defines disparity as, “differences in treatment provided to members of different racial or ethnic groups that are not justified by underlying health conditions or preferences” (Snowden 526). Despite adjustments made to access-related factors, insurance and income, minorities still tend receive lower-quality health care than whites (Flores, Olsen and Tomany-Korman 183). According to the Centers for Disease Control, “Relatively little progress has been made toward the goal of eliminating racial/ethnic disparities” (Gronman and Ginsburg 226). In this paper, I will describe the different health disparities that racial, ethnic and sexual minorities experience throughout their lives. I will then discuss the policies health care providers and government entities have put in place in order to eliminate the disparities between minorities and whites.

Overall this book discusses health care inequalities in America by documenting the need for the equal treatment and equal health statuses of minorities. The book was written to be a resource for students in public health and social sciences, also for the people who work with the minority populations. The book is a combination of peer reviewed research from scholars and workers in the field. These scholars give a political and historical view of healthcare through race and ethnicity, specifically focusing on inequalities of access and quality of healthcare that is provided to minorities.

Radical and Ethnic disparities continue to be a problem in America and have adversely affected the minority population health and health care. However, there has been remarkable improvement over the past centuries, but more work need to be done. Although ethnic and radical disparities exist for many complex and interacting factors, “such disparities are unacceptable.” Focusing on ways to reduce or eliminate health disparities can resolve these issues and improve the quality of care to every individual. This article provides an overview of the issues surrounding health and health care disparities, efforts to close the gaps, and recommendation for making further progress.

It has been predicted that the nation will increase its racial and ethnic diversity throughout the mid-century. Disparty in health care quality and access among minority populations, especially among African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and American Indians. By the middle of the century, racial and ethnic minority groups will comprise almost half of the US population. The barriers were recognized by Leininger and along with culturally and linguistically appropriate services, Leininger’s Culture and Diverse offers a structured approach to promoting culturally congruent care.

Demographics of the US population have changed drastically within the past three decades. These progressions specifically affect the healthcare industry with respect to the patients we serve and our workforce. By 2050, the word minority will take on a new meaning. As per the US Census Bureau, by mid-century the white, non-Hispanic population will contain fewer than 50 percent of the country's population. Intrinsically, the healthcare industry needs to change and receive better approaches to meet the diverse needs of our present, future patients and workers. Because diversity challenges faced by the healthcare industry are not constrained to quality-of-care and access-to-care issues, the third part of our exchanges will investigate how these

She has increased the reimbursement for the Center, however,due to her assertive collection techniques the patients tend to complain to the doctors. This poses two major concerns. First it ruins the relationship the Center has with the target market which are the patients in the surrounding area. This ultimately, will yield lower financial gain in the long run. Secondly, it creates a barrier between the health care providers and management. It is also stated that she has difficulty dealing with other ethnic groups, but is trying to improve upon it. According to Buchbinder & Shanks (2012) the leader who recognizes the importance of diversity and designs its acceptance into the organizational culture will be most successful. She immediately

In my opinion, some of the barriers throughout our nursing profession in regards to diversity is that we continue to ask the same question in yearly mandatory meetings and have the same conversations year after year about what diversity means to us, making it an issue rather than an advancement. We are not growing from our encounters or experiences with this word, instead we limited its definition of differences and made it an issue regarding a person’s color or gender which is profoundly dysfunctional in my opinion. We still run away from this word instead of embracing it. Diversity is a mighty and a beautiful word that means thinking differently, our differences and because we have made this word complicated with a negative meaning, diversity

Hi Michelle, I, too, work in an inner city, Newark, which is the largest city in New Jersey. The population is very diverse, e.g. African-American, Hispanic, Indian, and Asian-American. The diversity of the community is in turn reflected in the composition of the hospital’s patients’ population. However, the diversity is not only with regards to the ethnicities of the group, but is also reflective of the socio-demographics characteristics of an inner city. The findings of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) that “individuals in minority groups experience disproportionately higher rates of chronic diseases and do not receive the same quality of health care as individuals in majority groups” (Hart & Mareno, 2013, p. 2224), runs true to majority of