Question

Reducing Health Disparities

In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the first CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report (CHDIR). This report examined health disparities in the United States associated with various characteristics, including race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, disability status, and geography.

Among other recommendations, the 2011 CHDIR emphasized the need to address health disparities with a dual intervention strategy that focuses on populations at greatest need and improves the health of the general population by making interventions available to everyone.

Review the following PDF to learn more:

MMWR: Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities—Selected CDC-Sponsored Interventions, United States, 2014

Create a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document that addresses the following:

Compare the patterns of the major diseases of Hispanic/Latino groups and their rates and health effects between the other racial or ethnic groups living in the United States.

Identify at least one consequence that a lack of access to healthcare has on Hispanics/Latinos.

Explain why access to care issues will need to be monitored even more closely within the U.S. healthcare system beginning 2014.

Find at least two scholarly journal articles that discuss all or at least one of the topic areas related to Hispanic/Latino health disparities in the United States. Provide a synopsis of each article.

Explain what type of barrier(s) (structural, financial, or socio-cultural) each article examines? Describe at least two policies or strategies that can be implemented to improve access to healthcare services as they relate to the articles you reviewed.

Answer 1

The health is the important components of the individual's life. Health of the population is affected by various factors such as socioeconomic status and physical factors etc,

Hispanic is one of the community in the United States they face lots of disparities for getting health care services .The socioeconomic status is lower in Hispanics compared to non Hispanics.the reason for disparities are

:low family income

:low educational status

:occupational charecterestics

:asset accumulation.

23%hispanics are lived in poverty. The main work of Hispanics are agriculture work, construction ,domestic and food service and other low wage occupation .

Lack of access to health care services is main problems of health maintenance of hispanics. The consequences of poor access of health care is serious that include ,

:decreased health status in Hispanics and decreased life expectancy .

Due to decreased access to health care services it Will result in inadequate health care services at correct time. If health services are not  get at adequate time it will harm the life of person and decrease the total quality of health and total expectancy of life in Hispanics.

2)the health care system in the US is changing by year and year. Day by day the cost of health care is increased. Due to increasing of cost of health care services it Will result in disparities in health care. The disparities is based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status etc. The low socioeconomic status people are seems to less affordable to increased cost of health care. So they received poor quality health care status.

Due to increased disparities in health care system in the US the government aim to adopt strategies to prevent this types of disparities .the aim of healthy people 2020 is that the elimination disparities, promote equity and provide best health care services to populations inorder to improve overall health status of people in the US. Since 2011 itself start the intervention to decrease Disparity in health care services.

3)scholarly journal articles related to topic related to disparities in Latino.

A) health disparities in the Latino population by William a wage.

This is one of the study that investigate the disparities in the Latino populations and evaluated by determining the overall mortality rate in the US population. This study find out that the disparities and mortality is high among the Latino populations.

B)in focus:identifying and addressing health disparities among Hispanics (Martha Hostetter and Sarah klein:2018)

This study try to find out the health disparities among Hispanics. They find now a days the importance of health disparities is common and evaluate the various cause for disparities among Hispanics.

C) Hispanic health in the US by Edward velusco-Mondragon

This study find health of Hispanics population and factors influencing the health and disparities in the health care system in Hispanics.

The authors suggest strategies to over come this disparities include avail health insurance to all and implement healthy people 2020 policies.