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Can We Achieve Health Care Equality?
Stan Collins II
Health care organizations work to ensure that both:
* Health care equality * Health care affordability
eliminate disparities that threaten the quality of care throughout the country
U.S. health care organizations
These particular achievements may
NOT
be met
U.S. health care organizations
What is a health care disparity?
What solutions reduce and / or eliminate health care disparities?
Two major questions exist within the United States health care
system.
The differences in health care associated with:
* Economic status
* Social status
* Environmental disadvantages
Health care disparitiesdefined
The National Institutes of Health describes health care disparities in:
* Burdens
* Incidences
* Prevalence
* Mortality of ailments among certain ethnic groups or populations.
Health care disparitiesdefined
With different definitions describing health care disparities,
how can a corrective plan of action be composed and
implemented?
Health care disparitiesdefined
Health care disparities may range from an Individual’s:
* Genetic makeup
* Lack of health care insurance coverage
* Socio – economic status
* Lack of quality health care
* Lack of access to quality health care
* Lack of access to preventative care
* Lack of follow up health care when an individual is diagnosed with an ailment.
Health care disparities
causes
Federal analysis has pin pointed several areas of concern regarding health care disparities.
Diabetes: Indians / Native American females are almost 2x more likely to perish from diabetes as Caucasian females
Cardiovascular: African Americans suffer from significantly elevated rates of mortality from the ailment
Hepatitis B: Pacific Islanders and Asians account for over half of the American population from Hepatitis B
Cancer: African American females are afflicted by triple negative breast cancer
Health care disparities
causes
The aforementioned ailments are just the
TIP
of the ice burg in where data analysis distinguish disparities in
the health care of minority individuals / populations
Health care disparities
causes
The United States government has attempted to make an effort
under the Leadership of President Obama (who was fought
immensely) in an attempt to right the ship in
regards to the health care disparities within the United
States.
The Affordable Care Act
What can reduce and / or eliminate
health care disparities?
The Affordable Health Care Act was supposed to:
* Elevate health care coverage * Ensure coverage for those individuals between the ages of 19-25* Ensure coverage for ailing individuals with pre – existing health care conditions * Ensure Medicaid coverage fro those who could not afford health insurance* Reduce Health care expenditures * Reduce the national budget deficit by 143 billion dollars by the year 2019 * Elevate taxes and lower deductibles
What can reduce and / or eliminate
health care disparities?
If the
Affordable Care Act
accomplished these goals, we would indeed reduce and/or
eliminate the health care disparities that exist today.
What can reduce and / or eliminate
health care disparities?
In Conclusion
Until then, I do not feel we can achieve health care equality within
the United States.
References
Affordable Care Act: The heath care law at two years. (n.d.). The White House.
Retrieved from https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/
careact.pdfBlakely, T. & Simmers, D. (2011). Fact and action sheets on health inequities.
New Zealand Medical Association. Retrieved from http://www.pha.org.nz/documents/fact-action-health-inequalities.pdfCDC health disparities and inequalities report: United States, 2011. (2011). CDC. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/other/
su6001.pdfGlied, S.A. (2008). Health care financing, efficiency, and equity. NBER.
Retrieved from http://www.nber.org/papers/w13881.pdfLAVeist, T. Gaskin, D.J., & Richard, P. (2009). The economic burden of health inequalities in the United States. Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Retrieved from https://www.ndhealth.gov/
heo/publications/The%20Economic%20Burden%20of%20Health%20Inequalities%20in%20the%20United%20States.pdf
The paper assignment can be found here:http://collins2collins.com/uploads/CAN_WE_ACHIEVE_HEALTH_EQUALITY.pdf