Health care disparities among racial and ethnic groups are well recognized as a serious problem confronting many health care system in societies with fairly large and diverse ethno-cultural populations such as in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. These disparities emerge from complex set of factors, including health systems, health care providers, patients, and utilization managers may contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health care.The term “health care disparities” normally
context of health and social care in relation to a particular health issue. The health issue that is considered in this paper is of mental illness. At first, the anti-oppressive practice and cultural barriers from the perspective of health professionals and individuals is provided along with the anti-discriminative legislation or relevant policies for mental illness. Moreover, it discusses other aspects as well which includes financial implications that are faced by professionals, impact of health and social
Culturally Appropriate Care Planning Health care providers are tasked with providing culturally sensitive patient care. This includes the obligation to perform a comprehensive cultural assessment when planning care for the patient. However, this is a challenging task for nurses with the various cultural dynamics of all the various ethnic groups in the United States. Nevertheless, the nurse will need to establish a rapport with the patient when trying to develop a cultural assessment of the patient
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
In addition, social workers have a knowledge of dealing with mental health needs, and the psychosocial issues of grief and dying. Social workers provide this service through advocacy, education, counseling and the constant evaluation of patient and family needs. As the medical field has advanced through technology and pharmacology
Nurses and other health care providers are trusted to provide holistic care to all patients regardless of cultural backgrounds. Cultures will have varying beliefs about the prevention, cause, and treatment of illness as well as life and death. For that approach to be culturally and spiritually sensitive it is essential that health care providers be empowered with the capacity, skills, and knowledge to respond to the unique needs of each patient and each family. This paper will define culture and
values, communicates the same way, has the same beliefs in health, develop the same health problems, or practice the same spirituality. The Mexican culture demonstrates differences in all of these aspects from other cultures practiced around the world. The differences among cultures make it important for nurses and healthcare providers to offer culturally competent care between each of them. Family has a different definition in
medicine and began to wonder why we had not heard about this type of practice. My sister took the time to explain key factors that distinguished osteopathic medicine from allopathic medicine, and was able to draw my attention to the holistic patient care approach used by osteopathic physicians. Although I continued to learn about osteopathic medicine during pre-medical workshops held at Rutgers University, it was not until I shadowed osteopathic physicians that I truly understood the fundamental principles
Attaining and maintaining optimal health and wellbeing in a society is a must. To attain optimal health, lifestyle that is health-oriented should be emphasized. Moreover, wellbeing has a close connection to health because it is seen to have correlation in terms of addition of life years, recovery from illnesses, having positive health behaviors and positive outcomes, and has implications toward the relationship between patients and health care providers (Smedley, Stith, & Nelson, 2002). Essentially
It is well recognized that maternal healthcare is essential for further improvement of maternal and child health. Maternal and child health services is said to play a vital role in achieving improved health outcomes. The decision to use health care is undoubtedly influence by the characteristics of the health delivery system such as the availability and accessibility of the services. However, this does not necessarily mean that where there is a good supply of services, demand is created in and of