Question

What are healthcare disparities? What types of characteristics create healthcare disparities? What healthcare disparity are you concerned about and why? How can the Affordable Care Act impact healthcare disparities?

Answer 1

When we say about the word "disparity" it really means the "differences".

Health disparity means the the differenecs that arises in health,injury.illness or mortality among two population groups. healthcare disparitiy is little different from that of health disparity. In healthcare disparity it mainly views the difference that arises in health insurence coverage,access to and use of care and also the quality of care provided ,

The main characteristics that create healthcare disparities are:

1. Race
2. ethinicity
3. culture
4. socioeconomic status
5. age
6. geographic location
7. language
8. gender
9. sexual identity
10. citizenship

Iam very much concerned about the healthcare disparities arising due to socio-economic status , In many countries the health care are provided based on the each individuals social status. thats very unfair. every individual in the society has equal rights for getting health care. This type of partiality has to be resolve soon and the health status has to be improved ,

Affordable Care Act:

According to Affordable care act (ACA) its main efforts to reduce the occurance of health and healthcare disparities and thus improve quality care among vulnerable populations. It also provide wide area coverage for health care insurence among low moderate income groups. this supports vulnerable groups in health care. and thus can reduce the healthcare disparities to a minimum.