Vulnerable Population and Self Awareness One of the most common vulnerable populations are those individuals with a cognitive disorder such as Alzheimer’s disease. People with advanced AD are more challenging to assist in a health care setting because of their difficulty with expressing their needs. Health care professionals must use their strong assessment skills to determine what the persons needs are. My personal experience in working with patients with AD has rarely been the best. When
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Substance Abuse Vulnerability and Healthcare Implications Abstract Those with mental and substance abuse illnesses have often been identified as vulnerable populations. The following essay discusses the physical‚ psychological‚ and social factors that predispose these individuals to vulnerability. In regards to health care‚ potential disparities are then identified based on the theoretical components of Aday’s framework regarding access‚ cost and quality of care. Historically speaking
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Disparities in Health Care Thanks to medical advances and advanced preventative care‚ Americans are living longer and healthier than ever. However‚ these benefits don ’t seem to apply to everyone equally because a great disparity exists. Not a disparity based on access or clinical needs‚ preferences‚ or appropriateness of intervention‚ but a racial and ethnic disparity that divides on socioeconomic lines. When all medical care being accessed and administered is considered equal‚ the poor and racial
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Population health is the aggregation of various approach to health care that determines the health outcome of a group of individuals (Nash‚ JoAnne‚ Fabius‚ & Pracilio‚ 2011). Population health brings together the total quality of health of individuals in the community‚ considering the disparities in cultures‚ socioeconomical status‚ demographics‚ etc. The outcome of health of individuals in a giving population is highly determined by the policies that govern the healthcare delivery and care interventions
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Problems of Disparities in Health Care Insurance The United States leads the world in spending on health care. Yet ‚ other countries spending substantially less than the United States have healthier populations. America’s performance is marred by deep inequalities linked to income‚ health insurance coverage‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ geography‚ and – critically – access to care. Employer-based Insurance plans Income The United States is the only wealthy country with no universal health insurance
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Vulnerable Population in the Workplace Ronya Bentz NUR/440 February 27‚ 2010 Pauline Rogers Vulnerable Population in the Workplace Most staff members become anxious when asked to speak with a group of teachers about educating children with Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder
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far exactly did we come in attempting to achieve health equality and equity? Measures to reduce health disparities focuses on several key themes: (1) How persistent health disparities are (2) The economic condition (3) Race and discrimination (4) Geographic location (5) Raising awareness on the issue of health disparities (6) Shaping or integrating better health policies (7) The function of a community in developing plans to tackle health disparities (8) The promising Patient Protection and Affordable
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Reformation for the Health of the Population Population health is an ever progressing branch of medicine that is fundamentally concerned with improving the health of a population as opposed to the sole health of the individual. Advances in technology continue to improve the average life expectancy‚ yet the American healthcare system is failing to evolve. Insurance companies routinely collect huge profits‚ yet a significant portion of the American population remains subject to poor health care. Reconstructions
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Health disparities are a continuing issue‚ especially in America where there are many different socioeconomic hierarchies that can affect the level of health care. These health disparities refer to the different groups of people and how diseases affect each group. There have been many studies done to identify the health disparities driven by socioeconomic status (SES). Most all of the studies have provided evidence that racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive lower quality health care than
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A health disparity is defined by the Surgeon General as “a difference in health outcomes across subgroups of the population . . . that are often linked to social‚ economic‚ or environmental disadvantages”(n.d.). Healthy People has been trying to decrease the amount of health disparities since Healthy People 2000. They started with want to reduce the amount of disparities. Then for Healthy People 2010 the want to eliminate health disparities. Now for Health People 2020 the goal is to “to achieve
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