illustrates how a public health practitioner when presented with a problem‚ issue‚ or situation in the community can use a quantitative‚ qualitative‚ or mixed methods approach strategy of inquiry to investigate not only possible solutions‚ but to explore direction to determine a specific treatment or intervention and influence an outcome. Three abbreviated research plans are proposed in this paper as possible solutions to the growing concern in the U.S. on health disparities targeting a community
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In spite of exceptional improvements in the oral health of the people in the United States‚ not everyone in the nation has benefitted equally. Grant funds provide opportunities and resources that can be used to support studies that provide a better understanding of health disparities‚ it can also be used to develop interventions targeted to underserved and explore approaches that can make a change in the existing oral health disparity. A successful grant application occurs in stages and involves
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People often take the glories of modern medicine for granted‚ particularly those in the United States privileged enough to have health insurance. But though we have the technology and proper medicines‚ there are still large groups of people who do not benefit from them. A health disparity is “a statistically significant difference in health indicators that persists over time” (Holtz‚ 2013‚ p.10). While humankind has achieved many scientific advances‚ adequately sharing them with the whole population
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NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion The Heritage Assessment device is considered to “give nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and practices so that culturally appropriate interventions can be initiated. The tool is a series of twenty nine questions. These twenty nine questions are designed to determine a patient’s ethnic‚ cultural‚ and religious background‚ “For example‚ “Hispanic culture combines religion with a strong belief
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The results from FIG. 5. and FIG.6.‚ further explore the effects of the Hispanic health paradox. In FIG.5.‚ constant with all other tables about exploring percentages of diagnosis‚ the percentage of non-citizen’s vs citizen Hispanics who have been diagnosed with liver conditions is fairly equal‚ although citizens have a slightly higher chance of getting diagnosed. The surprising aspects about the association between Hispanics and liver conditions comes in the rates of recovery. Unlike the general
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Control and Prevention‚ Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease‚ injury‚ violence‚ or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. Health disparities are inequitable and are directly related to the historical and current unequal distribution of social‚ political‚ economic‚ and environmental resources (Health Disparities‚ 2015). There are multiple factors that contribute to health disparities such as‚ poverty‚ inadequate
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Issue Paper: Disparities in Access to Healthcare According to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)‚ health disparities are defined as “population-specific differences in the presence of disease‚ health outcomes‚ or access to healthcare” (2013). In the United States‚ health disparities are a well-known problem among ethnic minorities such as African Americans‚ Asian Americans‚ Native Americans‚ and Latinos. Studies have shown that these groups have a higher prevalence of chronic
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County being 62 per 1000 residents and a death rate of 32 per 1000 residents along with immigration and population relocation (“Kootenai County‚ Idaho”). 95% of the population being Caucasian with the second most prevalent race at 4% being of Latin/Hispanic dissent currently occupy Kootenai County and there are slightly more females than males (“State & County QuickFacts‚”). Median household income is $56‚808 annually with 12.8% of households at or below the poverty level (“Kootenai County‚ Idaho”)
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beliefs. Culture is a‚ “Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people‚ defined by everything from language‚ religion‚ cuisine‚ social habits‚ music and arts‚” (Zimmerman‚ 2012). According to the National Institute of Health‚ “cultural competency is often described as the combination of a body of knowledge‚ a body of belief and a body of behavior”. Cultural competency affects the outcomes of healthcare and the delivery of healthcare‚ by helping providers to deliver care
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the African origin‚ Hispanics and Latinos. Some of the housing units are a really deplorable condition and need fixing. The community has three parks that are maintained by county officials for the residents. One of the parks has been installed with a skateboard ramp and it is right in the public library. The parks are well secured. One of the main public libraries that stand out is the Prendergast free lib which boosts of
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