Health inequities are preventable‚ socially produced disparities in the health of groups of people that are systematic in their unequal and unfair distribution across the population (1). This is unlike the similar and often inaccurately substituted word “inequality” which merely refers to the uneven distribution of health status or health resources. Equitable health care ensures equal access and utilisation of services for equal need. To achieve this it must be recognised that different populations
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The ACA’s progress in expanding the health care industry to include various incomes levels comes leaves room for errors. For the purpose of this paper I have chosen to focus on the poor working class gap left due to the federal decision to leave states with the option to expand Medicaid. When the expansion was initially announced in 2010 24 of the 50 states opted out of the Medicaid expansion. As of September 2015‚ 20 states were not expanding their programs. Individuals and families that fall within
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Health Care Communication Methods Terrin Brown Health Care Communication Methods Customer Service also known as communication‚ now days almost always involves several people‚ especially when it involves an elderly loved one. Having an elderly family member is a very sensitive topic believe it or not and although very common is still something that most still do not know how to deal with and do not quite understand. It is hard to have to face that fact that your Grandparents‚ parents‚ aunts‚ uncles
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Does drinking coffee increase heart rate? Gracie Arreola Introduction to Statistics Professor Blaga-Romero A healthcare facility is trying to determine whether or not to serve coffee in the waiting rooms for their patients. Since many similar facilities do serve coffee‚ tea‚ and water‚ they want to determine if there is sufficient evidence to show that coffee increases their heart rate. 15 patients in the waiting room one day are tested to see if their heart rate increases. The healthcare facility
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Introduction The need for health care utilization arises from the divergence of actual health status from what individual consider as normal state of health. Even though the structural reasons for these discrepancies are routed in to the socio economic condition of the individual‚ through the provisioning of medical and related services these can greatly reduced. As health care is a unique good unlike any other goods and services in the market its utilization varies from one individual to another
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Programs from real life. Why were these programs successful? Can they be replicated in other settings? What are the challenges to replication? According to the Academy of managed care pharmacy‚ disease management programs are designed to improve the health of persons with chronic conditions and reduce associated costs from avoidable complications by identifying and treating chronic conditions more quickly and more effectively‚ thus slowing the progression of those diseases. Nevertheless‚ the Centers
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Whether we know it or not‚ culture affects our lives in countless ways. The culture that people grow up in is‚ most of the time‚ what their beliefs are based on. This includes beliefs about health care‚ how we treat‚ view‚ and recover from illness. The culture around us also can limit our access to health care or can broaden the types of treatment we receive. In the United States‚ we are blessed to have so much scientific knowledge. We understand a large number of diseases enough to know the cause
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Health care policies are rules and guideline to cover health related issues. Public health‚ preventative health and long term health such as an organ transplant are major factors in healthcare policy. According to healthcare law health policy is defined as “The aggregate of principles‚ stated or unstated that……….characterize the distribution of resources services and political influences that impact that health of the population.”(SHI@Singh‚ 2008 p.534). Healthcare law involves rules and regulations
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for themselves. The affordable care act made it possible for 12 million low in-come adults to receive healthcare that they otherwise would not have. This study‚ which was a “mixed-methods study involved 574 low-income adults and included data from an in-person survey and follow-up interviews” (PG 1). Many of these same people who were either on Medicaid or did not have insurance were afraid that they were going to be treated badly because they do not have health care. One interesting‚ finding in
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or operating statement. i. Fixed costs are costs that don’t change based on volume of product or in this case patient influx. This includes expenses related to rent‚ electric‚ and administrative salaries to name a few. ii. Variable costs are costs that change on a regular day-to-day basis. In the case of this hospital it would include variable number of nursing staff‚ supplies‚ and medications. These items directly relate to the possible profit‚
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