Question

Although often related, poor health outcomes are different from health disparities.

Discuss examples of specific healthcare disparities that exist for the vulnerable communicable disease and risk for infection populations.

Answer 1

The disparities and inequalities in accessing the healthcare still remain in the United States, which greatly affect the vulnerable populations. The populations without the healthcare facilities access include,

1. Undocumented immigrants
2. Individuals that are eligible for Medicaid, but not enrolled to receive the services
3. Those that are exempted from purchasing the healthcare insurance plans due to the financial burden

The following helpful measures to reduce the health care disparities:

1). Health disparities due to the economical differences, geographic region and disabilities can be effectively reduced by the implementation of the Remote Area Medical clinics (RAM clinics). Through this health care plan, people with no or less insurance can receive the medical services from a number of physicians, nurses and other medical staff members (Snyder & Milbrath, 2013).

2). Increasing health literacy among people, also promoting cultural awareness among the people and avoiding generalization.

3). Encouraging community-based participatory research to improve the health of different communities

4). Recruiting the medical staff from different regions or recruiting the bilingual medical staff