Public Health is the science and art of protecting and improving the health of the communities through education‚ promotion of healthy life styles and research for disease and injury prevention. Public Health helps improve the health and well being of people in local communities around the world also works to prevent problems before they occur. Public health nursing is a specialized form of registered nursing that combines nursing and public health principles. According to the American Public
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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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For this discussion post‚ I have chosen the Appalachians. I will discuss the disparities associated with this culture. I will also discuss how these disparities affect their health status‚ employment‚ and education. I will identify two nursing interventions that will help decrease health disparities on the Appalachians. I will also identify the biggest nursing challenge when implementing the nursing interventions. The Appalachian region spans across 410 counties in 13 states (Newman Giger‚
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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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• 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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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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The article addresses the health care disparities and the health disparities patients experience when accessing care. However‚ the aim of the article is to inform nurses on how they can close the gap by being culturally competent and by demonstrating effective communication (Beard‚ Gwanmesia & Miranda-Diaz‚ 2015‚ p. 58). Although this article is in perspective of US citizens‚ however I learned the importance of having cultural competence‚ which will assist me in providing care for each individual
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Health Disparities Improving the health of the socially and economically disadvantaged is a major task. Many Americans are living with poor health because of their socioeconomic statuses and it has many negative effects on their long term health. Improving access to health care is not enough to help fix the lower death rates among low income families. Our social status in our economy has large effect on our lives including how we are able to live our lives and in tern it has large measurable effects
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from contemporary health care than other Americans. In this reading there is also evidence that the disparity between the health characteristics of economies dominated by family based farming (LaVeist & Isaac‚ 2013). Therefore the large number of children rises the possibility that at least some of the children will survive (LaVeist & Isaac‚ 2013). In order word‚ this suggested that the average person and other ethnic minorities from a low income family is more likely to have health problems than a
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