Examples of Health disparities in the following topics:
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- Health disparities refer to gaps in the quality of health and healthcare across racial and ethnic groups.
- Health disparities based on race also exist.
- Health disparities refer to gaps in the quality of health and healthcare across racial and ethnic groups.
- Health disparities based on race also exist.
- Another disparity is access to health care and insurance.
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- There is debate about what causes health disparities between dominant and subordinate groups.
- Reasons for disparities in access to health care are many, but can include the following:
- Health disparities resulting from economic stratification are wide-ranging.
- Disparities in health care between the rich and poor are not inevitable - they are directly correlated with disparities in wealth.
- Health disparities based on race also exist.
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- Disparities in health services play out based on different systems of stratification, such as gender.
- Studies demonstrate the positive impact of girls' education on child and maternal health, fertility rates, poverty reduction and economic growth.
- There are a number of ways in which health disparities play out based on different systems of stratification.
- Researchers also find health disparities based on gender stratification.
- Examine the role gender plays in health care services, particularly for women
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- Racial disparities in health care often center around socioeconomic status, diet, and education.
- Health disparities refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial and ethnic groups.
- Race and health research, often done in the United States, has found both current and historical racial differences in the frequency, treatments, and availability of treatments for several diseases.
- Ethnic minorities may also have specific healthcare needs that need to be taken into consideration by health services in order to tackle health disparities.
- Discuss the role of race in terms of access to and quality of health care, especially for minorities
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- Health literacy is of continued and increasing concern for health professionals, as it is a primary factor behind health disparities.
- There are many factors that determine the health literacy level of health education materials or other health interventions.
- Health literacy skills are not only a problem in the public.
- Health care professionals (doctors, nurses, public health workers) can also have poor health literacy skills, such as a reduced ability to clearly explain health issues to patients and the public.
- Demonstrate the impact of health literacy on access to and understanding of health care issues, especially for certain social groups
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- There is evidence that black senior citizens are more likely to be abused - both physically and psychologically and suffer greater financial exploitation than do white senior citizens.Further, recent demographic profiles suggest that social aging varies across racial groups, and demonstrates that minority elders (especially Hispanic and African American identified) typically enter later life with less education, less financial resources, and less access to health care than their white counterparts.Finally, researchers have noted that minority groups' greater likelihood of facing patterns of structural disadvantage throughout the life course, such as racial discrimination, poverty, and fewer social, political, and economic resources on average, create significant racial variations in the stages or age-related trajectories of racial minorities and majorities that may be observed at all points of the life span, and contribute to disparities in health, income, self-perceived age, mortality, and morbidity.
- As a result, sociologists often explore the timing (in both subjective and objective conceptualizations of age) of varied life events within and between racial groups while exploring ways that age-related disparities influence the structural realities and bio-social outcomes of people located within different racial groups.
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- Individuals of different racial backgrounds experience aging—and the health issues associated with it—differently .
- However, these outcome disparities are not usually the result of biological determinants of health, which means that minority populations are not biologically less healthy than white populations.
- Rather, the disparity in medical outcomes is more likely attributed to social determinants of health, which are socioeconomic conditions that bear on health.
- For example, black and Hispanic populations are more likely to encounter financial hardship and therefore eat less healthy food, which potentially leads to health problems.
- Thus, while one can make generalizations about elder health by comparing racial categories, these differences are frequently caused by differences in socioeconomic status rather than race.
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- Social class position, thus, affects one's access to good public health and better living environments.
- Social determinants of health are the economic and social conditions, and their distribution among the population, that influence individual and group differences in health status.
- Health inequality is the term used in a number of countries to refer to those instances whereby the health of two demographic groups (not necessarily ethnic or racial groups) differs despite comparative access to healthcare services.
- Hurricane Katrina revealed many disparities in social class in the U.S.
- Identify the various ways social class plays a role in access to and quality of health care
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- Social determinants of health are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status.
- Much of this disparity can be explained by the tendency for middle and upper class people to work in professions that provide health insurance benefits to employees, while lower status occupations often do not provide benefits to employees.
- Health inequality refers to the unequal distribution of environmental health hazards and access to health services between demographic groups, including social classes.
- Consequently, affluent communities are likely to have better health outcomes than nearby impoverished ones.
- Describe how a low socioeconomic status (SES) can impact the health status of individuals
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- This was the explanation given for the wide disparity in Medicare spending for patients in the last two years of their lives at top teaching hospitals.
- Two types of health insurance exist in modern society, private health insurance and publicly funded health insurance.
- A premium is the amount a policy-holder or his sponsor (e.g. an employer) must pay to a health plan to purchase health coverage.
- For example, policyholders might have to pay a $500 deductible per year, before the health insurer covers any health care costs.
- Discuss the use of both private and public health insurance and the implications for society's overall health