The Health of today’s Indigenous Australians is burdened with chronic and communicable disease‚ infant mortality and morbidity‚ substance misuse‚ poor nutrition‚ emotional distress‚ increased hospitalization‚ lower levels of access to health care‚ and are at a greater socio-economic disadvantage than other Australians. This has become a national health priority as the decline in health in Indigenous Australians has led to a more than seventeen year gap in life expectancy than other Australians.
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Asian Influences on the Filipino Culture Hindu Pre-contact period Before the Spanish period‚ the archipelagoes of Southeast Asia were under the influence of traders from the Hindu-Malayan culture‚ such as theMajapahit Empire‚ which was then supplanted by Islamic :D teaching by Muslims traders from Gujarat‚ India. Influences from the Indian subcontinent may be traced earlier to before the arrival of the Arabs and the Europeans during the 15th and 16th centuries respectively. The rulers of many
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“The Filipinos love to talk and to interact‚ thus the penchant for gossip‚ telebabad (the habit of engaging in long‚ often senseless conversations over the telephone) and‚ this time‚ text messaging. The Filipinos are heavy users‚ not due to big businesses‚ but because it is one form of entertainment. Filipinos love talking. Filipinos love interacting so much he is using text messaging as a medium" ( 2000). It would be an understatement to say that text messaging‚ or texting‚ has revolutionized
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Q1. Health Disparities Health disparities refer to the glaring differences in the distribution of the burden of diseases‚ injuries and opportunities to access the available healthcare services from the facilities in a given society. Each of these differences‚ as Flores & Lin (2013‚ p. 10) observe‚ is preventable and almost always affects the segments of the society that are at the most disadvantage. These obstacles to healthcare access are brought about by among others racial or ethnic origin‚
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Eliminating Health Disparities Despite major advances in the fields of medicine and healthcare services over the past years‚ a significant health gap between rich and poor remains. As populations grow‚ so apparently do health disparities. The poor continue to shoulder a particularly disproportionate social burden in terms of inequitable access to decent healthcare‚ rising costs and higher rates of morbidity and mortality. People of color are receiving special attention in medical‚ social‚ and
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• According to Dr. Fernandez‚ she defined health disparities as potentially avoidable differences in health between groups of people. She then defined health care disparities as a different access‚ process‚ and quality of health care among specific populations that are not attributable to clinical needs‚ or to the patient’s preferences. • From my understanding of health disparities and health care disparities it has been an issue for a while and it does exist. This issue mostly occurs among racial
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How can we define health care disparity? In a world in which we have set parameters‚ measurements and numbers‚ health care disparity is one of those concepts that are not easy to explain or to define‚ unless you have experienced it. As a minority myself‚ I have always wondered if this is a reality in our current health care system or just merely a difference in outcomes between races. The reality is that‚ there is a difference‚ as I have experienced it many times as a patient myself and in the work
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It is important that one addresses health disparities in medically underserved communities because it can most importantly‚ improve quality of life as well as decrease health care cost nationwide. The decrease in health care cost will have an exponential effect on the economy by allowing more governmental funding opportunities to other important issues such as education‚ social security and other community services. By addressing health disparities within these communities it can allow for social
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Disparities in health care access in the US Multiple studies had shown that racial and ethnic minorities experience a lower quality of health care services and are less likely to receive routine medical procedures than are white Americans. Minorities are also more likely to be uninsured‚ live in poverty‚ and be exposed to environmental hazards at home and on the job. Although the gap in health services and health outcomes is not as wide as it was 10 years ago; there are still major blocks to overcome
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the correlation between social status and overall health. It focuses on two categories of social status that influence overall health‚ economic status and race. These two categories are examples of health disparities. According to Paula Braveman a health disparity is‚ “a difference in which disadvantaged social groups who have persistently experienced social disadvantage or discrimination- systematically experience worse health or greater health risks than more advantaged social groups” (Braveman
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