Population Health: Health Inequities/Disparities
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America’s health care system. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the health care system and help Americans, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions.
Healthcare disparities are differences in access to or availability of medical facilities and services and variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between population groups defined by socioeconomic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, economic resources, or gender and populations identified geographically. AHRQ has reports and data on disparities in health care related to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
According to Healthy People 2020: Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion. Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and health care disparities. Press the following link to access THE SECRETARY’S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION OBJECTIVES FOR 2020 http://www.healthyp (Links to an external site.)
Over the years, efforts to eliminate disparities and achieve health equity have focused primarily on diseases or illnesses and on health care services. However, the absence of disease does not automatically equate to good health. Powerful, complex relationships exist between health and biology, genetics, and individual behavior, and between health and health services, socioeconomic status, the physical environment, discrimination, racism, literacy levels, and legislative policies. These factors, which influence an individual’s or population’s health, are known as determinants of health.
For all Americans, other influences on health include the availability of and access to:
- Access to quality education
- Nutritious food
- Decent and safe housing
- Affordable, reliable public transportation
- Culturally sensitive health care providers
- Health insurance
- Clean water and non-polluted air
- Access to Healthcare
Throughout the next decade, Healthy People 2020 will assess health disparities in the U.S. population by tracking rates of illness, death, chronic conditions, behaviors, and other types of outcomes in relation to demographic factors including:
- Race and ethnicity
- Gender
- Sexual identity and orientation
- Disability status or special health care needs
- Geographic location (rural and urban)
Project Guidance:
Your assigned faculty will determine your group members. All members will receive the same grade.
- Please read the assigned three articles (see attached)
Assigned Articles
Bar J Cohen G Galea S 2017 America equality and equity and equality in health5, population in an era of rising income and inequality: USA. 1980-2015.Bar, J., Cohen, G., & Galea, S. (2017). America equality and equity and equality in health5, population in an era of rising income and inequality: USA. 1980-2015., Retrieved from http://thelancetEricksonandAndrews (2011).
Click on article: Bar, Cohen, &Galea.pdf
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Erickson D Andrews N 2011 Partnerships among community development. Public health, and healthcare could improve the well-being of low-income people.Erickson, D., & Andrews, N. (2011). Partnerships among community development. Public health, and healthcare could improve the well-being of low-income people. Health Affairs, 30(11), 2056-2063.
Click on article: Erickson & Andrews-1.pdf
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Gottlieb, L., & Alderwick, H. (2019). Integrating social and medical care: Could it worsen health and increase equity. Annals of Family Medicine, 17(1).
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- Select a group topic from below to present in seminar to your colleagues which should approved by assigned faculty.
Selected Topic
Malnutrition in Underprivileged Communities
For Seminar II, your group is to prepare a slide show presentation (6-8 slides) (1 or 2 slides for my order) on your selected topic integrating the theme of health disparities/inequalities. As a group you can use the resources and articles provided to address the theme. You need to find 3 additional articles that address your topic as it relates to the theme of health disparities and inequities. Your group will present to your assigned faculty and peers. The slides should follow the outline below:
- Introduction/Background
- Review of the Literature
- Theoretical reflection on salient points
- Recommendation for nursing, i.e.: What resources are available? (The only part you’re responsible for.
- References –APA format
Read the articles above that have the pdf attached to it, but if you can use the articles I attached below to cite information’s that’ll be great
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33792612/
- https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.120.018900
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785470/
Population Health: Health Inequities/Disparities
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