Difficulties in measuring health It is always important to quote the source of the data, when referring to statistics and should be treated with caution. Moreover, they should be collected from official sources may not offer an accurate picture of patterns of health and illness. For instance, some people may visit the doctor even though they may not be very ill, and on the other hand some people who are actually ill may not visit the doctors. There are the same symptoms for different diagnosis, so therefore doctors may give a different diagnosis than what you actually have. Ken Browne (2006) provided a useful framework to explain this problem.
Vulnerable Populations 1 HCA430: Special Populations Chronically Ill and Disabled Chiqita Solomon Instructor: Sandra Rebeor September 3, 2012 Vulnerable Populations 2 Reducing and eradicating inequalities in the United States is a ongoing goal for the discrepancies within healthcare. Substantial discrepancies, with risk factors, healthcare access, illness, and some cases death, remain latent in these at risk populations. “Vulnerable populations are groups that are not well integrated into the health care system because of ethnic, cultural, economic, geographic, or health characteristics. This isolation puts members of these groups at risk for not obtaining necessary medical care, and thus constitutes a potential threat to their health (urban.org)”. The chronically ill and disabled is a vulnerable population that I personally work with in my healthcare career.
Materialist and structural explanation Due to data gotten from statistics, this explanation supports the idea that social factors like gender, ethnicity and class play an important role on the impact on health. It explains the level of health patterns and inequalities in the population between the social classes. However a weakness is that believes people should not be responsible for the risky lifestyle choices they make and also believe that people do not have the power to their health experience. The Materialist explanation concentrates on the hazards in society and to which some people have no choice but to be exposed eg the lower classes are exposed to more unhealthy environments because they do more dangerous work, have poorer housing, have fewer resources available to secure good health and are unable to use the health services. * -------------------------------------------------
The subjective concern is the concern that significant number of people has about the objective condition. Is society change, so do social problems, Social problems are relative what some view as social problem, other see as a solution. This is the case in the abortion dilemma. Is the fetus is not human being or the fetus is a human being. Social problems are base in four stages, pressures of change, the official response, reacting to the official response and the alternative strategies.
Cover discrimination is when you can’t tell discrimination has taken place, for example someone could not get picked for a job just because of their age, social class, gender and sexuality. This would be hard to pinpoint as discrimination because it’s hard to find out why the person did not get the job. Age discrimination is when a person is treated unfairly because of how old they are, harassed or victimised because of their age. In a hospital elderly patients might not get the best medication available because they are seen to waste resources because they are going to die. They could say that the money saved from doing this could be spent on young people who have a feature.
| | |Health Disparity And Its Victims | | | | | When one thinks of modern health care in the United States, patients receiving different quality health care than other patients because of race, gender, or age seems like something from the past. These differences, called health disparities, affect the morbidity and mortality of diseases by someone’s race, culture, environment, sex, age, socioeconomic status, etc. (AMA, 1995-2012). When speaking of health disparities, it is important to note that these differences will include not only a difference of disease according to the aforementioned list, but also a difference in regard to the type of facilities, access to care, and services available to those listed above. An example of health disparities, and how it affects the outcome of disease according to race, would be if African American males from an urban community had a higher mortality rate from cancer than a Caucasian male from a non-urban community.
For example, in Australia and New Zealand indigenous people in both countries that consistently has an experience due to very poor health condition. With the increasing of people in the population that affected by the diseases in indigenous population, it will lead to the inequalities in healthcare such as the minority groups will have an unequal access to resources for health that they need to improve their health in healthcare, such as a healthy food, a good housing, medicine and others. It also impact on health whether in psychological and social condition which can damage their health. For an example, in Australia, a low income and unemployment that occur in the aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander can lead to social isolation and exclusion that influence to their health status. According to the article (Victorian Health Promotion Foundation 2005), these situations can influence whether people
Position Statement Cultural Cultural Competency Defining Cultural Competence Health care providers may experience challenges stemming from cultural differences when treating patients of various ethnicities, and these challenges may lead to suboptimal patient care. Current data shows that despite substantial advances in the overall health of Americans, health disparities persist among US racial and ethnic groups. A recent editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that miscommunications due to language barriers with Spanish, the most common non-English language spoken in the US, lead to substandard health care. For many individuals with limited English proficiency, inability to communicate in English is the primary barrier to accessing health information and services. Elimination of health disparities must be placed at the forefront of the country’s health priorities.
The percentage of smoking in Dundee is twice as in deprived Tayside communities. There are also high teenage pregnancies in Dundee than the Scottish rate children have been failed to have dental extractions. The rate of cancer, heart disease and suicide rates are obviously high at Dundee social class will determine the health of people. The people who excluded are discriminated against on the disability, age, ethnic background and migrant status. Moreover, the place where you live can affect the health such as noise level, pollution and the maintenance of having, incidence of damp and level of crime.
In today’s economy more and more people are categorized as vulnerable. Finding oneself in a vulnerable state, such as unemployed or underemployed, ill, or homeless, can be the catalyst for positive change. In addition vulnerable populations are often victims of ethnocentric biases that are prevalent in health care, which can interfere with access to quality care. Barriers Many barriers exist that have a negative effect on an individual’s ability to access quality health care. Immigrants experience many difficulties navigating the complicated bureaucracies that interfere with obtaining health care.