3. Allan Bakke was a 35-year-old white male who after serving in the Marine Corps in Vietnam and working as an engineer for NASA, developed an interest in medicine. Bakke applied to UC Davis and was rejected even though he had attained a GPA and MCAT grade above the school’s average. Along with excellent academic recognition, he also had very good credentials beyond the classroom and was even interviewed by UC Davis’s Dr. Theodore West who stated that Bakke was, “a…
The major points concerning the challenges to using a business case for addressing health disparities begins with the challenge of quantifying both the business case and the social case for addressing disparities. Sound business and quality improvement principles can guide health care organizations seeking to reduce disparities. Interventions may help focus resources and engage health care and community partners who can share in the costs of, and the gains from such efforts.…
Minority Association of Pre-Health Students is an organization on campus that joins pre-health students from many ethnic and cultural backgrounds with a focus on serving the Omaha community. Also, celebrating and appreciating diversity on campus and in our community. I was provided a mentor through this program who helped me navigate being a minority and also being a pre-health student.…
My application to the Navy Health Professions Scholarship Program follows the time-period I previously believed would be the best of my adult life: after I was confirmed a place in a U.S. medical degree program. While I was and continue to be extremely pleased with achieving the goal which inspired incredible hard work throughout the last five exhausting years, I would be diminishing myself to claim that this achievement was enough. Long before beginning my applications to medical school, I had been introduced to the benefits of Navy medicine – mainly through its contributions to pre-hospital emergency medical care. I was particularity impressed with the significant influence Navy research had on medical techniques that were so standard to…
Those in the healthcare profession are respected, hardworking individuals who went above and beyond to prove themselves capable of helping others in the greatest way possible. My career goals are very straightforward. I’ve taken several steps in high school to accomplish these goals by being well disciplined in my studies, and participating in a Health Careers Internship Program. This program offers me a variety of opportunities that make me a more applicable in a healthcare setting. I’ve learned how to build a strong résumé and cover letter, and how do professional interviews well. We also get the chance to observe and participate in a medical environment. I’ll be shadowing with Dr. Steve Carr at Northern Star Therapy and learn the basics of physical therapy. I’ve done also done volunteer work in a Geriatric setting, at the St. Benedict nursing home in St. Cloud. My plans following high school are to attend the University of Minnesota in the College of Biological Sciences. My hopes are to complete my undergraduate in there in the Pre-Medicine program, attend graduate school, and specialize in a currently undecided field of…
I am confident that acceptance in this program will help me to nurture my dedication towards satisfying my patients' quality of life. Acknowledging that medical school will be difficult and an arduous learning process, I anticipate the opportunity to utilize my intrinsic traits of selflessness, curiosity, and being thorough in order to emerge victorious. If accepted, I am confident that the guidance, teaching, and training I receive will enable me to continue contributing towards the medical profession. It will also enable me to achieve my ultimate dream of becoming an exceptional medical…
Question 1): How do past and present experiences influence gene expression susceptibility to health disparities? Give an example.…
Healthy People 2010 was sent off in January 2000 by the Department of Health and Human Services. This program intended to tackle nationwide promotions and disease preventions in the communities in which they sever form social disparities in health. Social disparities generally specify as the difference in health status that are consistently correlated with various levels of latent social advantages and position in the social ladder (Braveman & Gruskin, 2003.) these social disparities in health are mirrored by ethnicity, sexual orientation, education and occupation. Moreover, there are other distinctive reasons linked with preeminent resources, prestige, influence and social incorporation (Braveman & Gruskin, 2003.)…
Over the past decade a rapidly expanding body of literature has demonstrated the existence of healthcare disparities. While consensus has not emerged regarding the causes of disparities, they are generally thought to be related to provider, patient, and healthcare system factors. On the one hand, the current US healthcare system is oriented toward individualized acute care. Yet healthcare disparities by definition are a population level phenomenon. Individuals do not have disparities, groups and populations do.…
The best way for the medical profession to overcome disparities in healthcare is to enhance treatment outcomes by improving equality of care. As a child, I relied on government funded healthcare programs for medical treatment. Currently, I am insured through my employer’s health insurance policy and am able to enjoy the luxuries of having private insurance. Experiencing treatment from both channels I realized a gap in the quality of care. The medical profession can fill this gap by focusing on teaching compassion and equality in the classroom. Muhammad Ali once said, “It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” If medical programs continue to emphasize the…
In what way does the lack of racial and ethnic diversity among health care providers influence health care delivery?…
It is not enough to merely partake in conversations regarding health disparities, inequities, and social injustices, there needs to be movement toward changing the systems that gave birth to them. Therefore, to better appreciate diverse informal elder caregivers and their care recipients, aging organizations and health care providers need a better understanding of their values, belief systems, ways of thinking and behaving, so they are better equipped to identify cultural influences that act as barriers (Goodenough, 1981), while acknowledging social injustices in their communities, influence on health disparities and inequities. Goodenough defines (as cited in Dilworth-Anderson et al., 2012, p. 30-31) culture as a set of “shared symbols,…
Health disparities from no access to healthcare lopsidedly influence a developing fragment of a population. Clear differences exist in rates of medical coverage scope. The outcomes of being uninsured are vital and contain utilization of lesser preventive administrations, poorer well-being result, an expansion of death and incapacity rates, bring down yearly wages due to illness and disease, and the exceedingly created phase of sicknesses. Therefore, the uninsured gathering shelter being slightly poor, youthful, and from racial and additionally ethnic minority. Disparities in health and health care does not only affect the groups facing disparities, but also limit overall improvements in quality of care and health for the broader population…
Reducing and eliminating health status disparities by providing access to appropriate health care is a goal of most health delivery systems. As advanced health care providers employed at the retail clinic, we attempt to reduce or eliminate health care disparities by providing high quality, affordable care to the uninsured, low-income minority populations. This group of populations are less likely to have access to medical care by way of primary care. As a result, these populations tend to use more costly services and are not reached by early preventive care or intervention services. In a general sense, the retail clinics ease the primary care burden by providing low cost affordable care. Retail-based convenient care clinics are small health…
Health disparities has always been the nation’s major issue. One of the main factors that lead to this issue is the high cost of care. Many U.S. citizen are uninsured because they can’t afford to buy insurance. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was enacted to address this issue. Its goals to lower the uninsured rate by expanding both public and private insurance coverage, and at the same time reducing the costs of health insurance and increase the quality of care.…