...Those that do not have insurance probably cannot afford to take time off from work due to illness and wind up going to the emergency room if medical care is needed. Waiting until something is wrong and seeking emergency medicine is not the right answer but for some, this is the only option. Getting this type of last minute medical care is one of the reasons health care and insurance is so expensive. It costs more to treat pneumonia than it does a cold. If you let the cold settle into the lungs, now something simple has become complicated, potentially life-threatening, and takes much longer to recover from. Income Inequality will produce inequality in health care. As long as there are inequalities in income, there will be levels of...
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...This can impair the functions of saliva that can also lead to dental problems and infections and all these are dental concerns. There are also people that are likely to develop salivary stones and mucus plugs, although this can be prevented by drinking plenty of liquids. This is also a concern in relation to dentistry; they can even conduct a massage to the patient’s parotid glands to keep the good flow of saliva (Aetna,...
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...Experience: As a public health dental hygienist, my biggest challenge is getting clients and families to value the importance of baby teeth and to access dental treatment. In response to my identified challenge, I have handed out hundreds of our programs brochures and posters, I have discussed the value of baby teeth with parents who attend our programs, I have worked at and set up displays for various health promotion events including the annual Welcome to Kindergarten, and I have designed and presented power point presentations to various groups. Reflection: One of the main consequences to my actions is we have no way of measuring behavior change. We can educate families on the importance of oral health, but our program does not have the resources or the capacity to follow up with each family to see if what we are teaching has taken effect. A second consequence is we are having trouble reaching our target population. Our programs target families’ with many adversities who...
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...Assignment 2 Assignment 2 This article objectives are intended to promote awareness of health disparities and inequalities with people affected by learning disabilities. People with learning disabilities have poorer health status than their non-disabled peers. There are shocking disparities in the health status of people with learning disabilities compared to the non-disabled population. People with learning disabilities experience a higher incidences in morbidity and mortality to preventable diseases compared to the general population (Emerson & Baines, 2010). Approximately, 210,000 people in the United Kingdom have severe or profound learning disabilities. A further 1.2 million people have a moderate to mild learning disability (Health, Healthcare for All: Report of the Independent Inquiry into Access to Healthcare for People with Learning Disabilities, 2008). On average, 2% of people in a general practice will have some degree of learning disability (Health, Once a Day One or More People with Learning Disabilities are likely to be in Contact with Your Primary Healthcare Team. How Can You Help Them?, 1999). Since this is a small percentage primary providers lack awareness of the health needs of people with learning disabilities. The multifaceted reasons why these disparities exist, and the role of practice nurses in improving health outcomes for people with learning disabilities will also be explored (Emerson & Baines, 2010). The learning disability...
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...financial consequences of ill-health, providing equitable access to health care centers and making it possible for people to participate in decisions affecting their health and health system. In terms of cost, governments are expected to facilitate diversity and competition in the provision and functioning of health services, limiting themselves to financing a set of essential public health activities and clinical services, leaving the rest to private financing, in the form of public or private insurance plans. Governments must also regulate the private insurance market, designing incentives to increase coverage and decrease costs. Furthermore, they must encourage competition and private participation in the provision of clinical services financed with public funds. 1 Health financing can be a key policy instrument to improve health and reduce health inequalities if its primary objective is to facilitate universal coverage by removing financial barriers to access and preventing financial hardship and catastrophic expenditure. The creation of a system to raise sufficient funds for health fairly, a system to pool financial resources across population groups to share financial risks, a financing governance system supported by relevant legislation, financial audit and public expenditure reviews, and clear operational rules to ensure efficient use of funds. 2 The organizational structure of an ideal health-care system is built on the principle of equal access to services for all...
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...different qualities of living within Canada have resulted in the health inequalities among children. This article in particular gives the reader the information needed to understand how living circumstances come about as well as how they affect health. Infant mortality rate or the number of newborns who die within their first year of life is considered to be one of the best ways to judge how healthy a population is. Low birth weight is also very important because it is affiliated with a wide range of health problems throughout a person’s lifespan. While there are many circumstances that play a role in infant mortality and low birth weight, a major component is living conditions the expected mothers are exposed to. This can be linked to the financial status of the parents. In Canada, the infant mortality rate is 60% higher and the low birth rate is 43% higher in the poorest income quintile than the richest quintile (Raphael, 2010). The effects of income on health are best portrayed by the living conditions to which children are exposed to. Income not only has a direct relationship with children’s health but various developmental outcomes as well. Income is a great indicator for the quality of nutrition, clothing, and housing children receive as well as the opportunities they may have available to them when it comes to education and recreation. There is a concern rising for Canadians because income inequalities among families are increasing while the housing and food security situation...
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...George promised the soldiers returning from the battlegrounds of Europe 'homes fit for heroes'. The government set itself a target of building half-a-million decent homes by 1933. Beveridge report 1942 fAn important report with reguards to public health was the Beveridge report Beveridge believed there were ‘five giants’ that had to be identified in society. These were ‘want’ – poverty was seen as the main problem in society . In 1946 the ‘national insurance act was passed which provided sickness and unemployment benefit, retirement pension, maternity benefits and widow benefits. This was essentially the start of the benefit system we have today ‘disease’ – In 46’ the ‘national health service act’ was passed and everyone was entitled to dental, optical and medical services for free. ‘squalor’ - Most of Britain still had slum areas and overcrowding was a serious problem made worse by bomb damage during the war. To deal with the problem of squalor the government concentrated on the building of decent homes for the working class after the war. ‘ignorance’ – in 1944 the war time coalation government passed the education act, The act made secondary education compulsory until the age of 15 years and provided meals, milk and medical services at every school. ‘idleness’ - After the war, there seemed to be work for everyone as Britain rebuilt itself. The Labour Government...
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...1. Gender refers to the socially learned attitudes and behaviors associated with biological differences. Gender determines the expression of masculinity and femininity. People reinforce those gender expressions through social interaction. Social and culture shape gender roles and what is considered appropriate behavior for a “man” and “women”. For example, men are expected to be a leader and protector for family while women focus on home such as taking care of the house, cooking, raising children, being emotionally supportive of the husband. 2. Feminism is the belief in social, economic, and political equality for women. The first wave was the fight for women’s rights for legal and political equality. This effort of women led to the passage of women’s right to vote in 1920. The second wave focused on social and cultural inequalities. The book “Feminine Mystique” by Betty Freidan argues women were unhappy because of the feminine mystique. This was a damaging ideal of femininity and it restricted women to the role of housewife and mother, giving up on work and education. Feminists fought to provide opportunities and to ensure that women would have a choice in areas such as education, working, relationships or marriage, and control of their reproductive rights. The third wave reacted to the second wave. The third-wave feminists tended to be more global and multicultural, and its ideas beyond middle class, white women, addressing the different disadvantages women experience because...
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...price. Great Britain represents all that is good and bad with a centralized single-payer health care system. Health care spending is fairly low. Long waitlists for treatments are horrendous, and rationing pervades the system. Patients have the choice of providers with little access to specialists. Under Great Britain’s healthcare everyone is covered. Great Britain has a single-payer system funded by general revenues. With this centralized system, avoiding deficits is difficult. Great Britain’s deficit in 2006 was 700 million pounds despite healthcare spending increases over 43 billion pounds in 5 years. They pay through government taxation that is protected under the National Health Services (NHS). The people who are a part of the NHS bear the benefits while the people who opt out of the NHS will receive the burdens. You can’t defect from enrolling or you’re not covered. That being said, only 11.5% of the people opt out of the NHS. Private health insurance replicates the coverage provided by the NHS, but gives patients access to higher quality care and reduced waiting times. The general mission of Great Britain is to live and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Great Britain’s way of healthcare would fall under the utilitarian theory of justice. Which states, benefits and burdens should be distributed in a way that maximizes the net good (utility) of society. Great Britain’s health care in my opinion is just, yet it has to be a good policy for people to agree. Government subsidized...
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...Kristie Parker, December 19, 2012 | 1. Select three to four main aspects that you discovered in your research to highlight. The first thing that I would like to highlight in my research of Canadian universal healthcare vs. US healthcare is that Canadian health care is federally funded and covers mostly all of the medical services used by the residents. The US has healthcare for the people but is covered at the citizens’ expense via an insurance company. The citizens are responsible for maintaining the premiums set by the insurance companies via the employer of the citizens or privately attained. However, this could explain why nearly 50 million people are uninsured because a lot of Americans cannot afford the premiums set by the insurance companies or quoted to them privately. The issue without healthcare is that the premiums are many times to expensive. The insurer will not pay because the conditions the patient may have could be pre-existing and will cause the company to pay for many expenses that are acquired before they are insured. Unlike the US, Canadian is federally funded so those issues are not of a concern, only finding when the care can be provided is the concern. Next, even though universal care for the Canadians appear to be ideal and a dream come true, the Canadians still have longer waiting lines and longer times for the services to be carried out than the US. The Canadian are much slower to adopt expensive technology to perform certain procedures. Universal...
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...ABSTRACT OCCUPY WALLSTREET 2 The Occupy Wall St. movement started off slow around Sepember 2011. Just as shy as a few short weeks, movements started to appear at countless locations. This movement seemed to come hurdling in kantian stlye. This movement has a great deal to offer the careful observer. By looking at the history of the Occupy Movement and its emergence out of a chaotic and complex enviroment, it exposes the unethnical practices for business and decision making.It starts to grab ones attention when they learn so much from a complexity science that can be applied to this movement. With unethnical stock broking and the federal reserve managing to tilt state policy, capitalism has failed to serve the whole of society. It exposed our corrupt corporations and influenced the 99 percent to start with change within. This is the flame that burned everyone up and out to attend the Occupy Wallstreet movement. 1 OCCUPY WALL STREET Damon Mathis 10-25-2012 Professor Lia , Business Ethnics , Strayer University. OCCUPY WALLSTREET 3 Massive demonstrations have a place in society: many people get more attention than a few. And if you want to make a point make a splash. The more people the more splash. But they’re ethically troublesome. Which brings me to my next point. Kantian ethnics I feel- was used in this type of ethnical behavior. I feel like the people involved based there judgement on this type of ethnicity. Motive was the most important...
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...health status of aboriginals in Ontario is very poor. There are a lot of health care needs for aboriginals that live in Northwest Ontario, also because the population is so high. The first nations population is the largest (958,000) Followed by the Metis (266,000) and the Inuit (51,000). Every year the population of aboriginals increases. The health status, diseases and life style of these people should be monitored and taken care of to an extent. Aboriginal population is relatively young in Ontario. The birth rate is two times the rate of the Canadian population, which is very high. Aboriginals seem to rank lower education, have higher rates of unemployment, along with higher rates of smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, which can lead to needing a lot of health care. (Dr. Chandrakant P. Shah. 2005, page. 3) Some may argue that the health issues are genetic, but health means more than the absence of disease. A look at the history of colonization and the creation of the reservation system that forced removal of children to far away communities and institutions, relocation to unfamiliar lands and tortured relations caused suffering from inequality. This directly affected the health and well being of the Aboriginal communities. The aboriginal population experiences a lot of infectious diseases. The First Nations in Ontario believe that it is because they don’t receive the same level of health care services as the rest of the...
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...AND HEALTH CARE Health Status and Health Care Services in Canada with Comparison to the United States Bonny Tiley DeVry University, HSM 310 In the following literature, the Canadian health care system will be compared in detail to the United States health care system. There are two very different health care systems between Canada and the United states. They each have their own difficulties within their own systems and are currently trying to find ways to improve these particular issues. The Universal Health Care system is used in Canada; this provides coverage to all the citizens of Canada (Canadian Health Care, 2007). It is executed on either a territorial or provincial basis, staying within the guidelines that have been made by the federal government (Canadian Health Care, 2007). The United States on the other hand has a hugely private system, with multiple payers, leaving the US citizens no choice other than to pay out of one’s own pocket in order to obtain health insurance, also Americans are not fully insured or even partially insured like the citizens of Canada are (Canadian Health Care, 2007). Each country spends a large amount of funding for their health care systems. Canada had spent over eleven percent of its overall GDP on health care, the United States on the other hand had spent 17.4 percent of its overall GDP this year (United North America, 2013). On the other hand, Canada has been shown to spend much less of the GDP on their health care, but it still...
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...Econ Economic Issues Lindsay Honea HCS/440 June 7, 2016 Christopher Clarke Economic Issues Health care economics provides theories of production, inequalities, effectiveness, regulation and competition to help keep health care running smoothly and efficiently (Getzen, 2013, p. 2-15). One key factor that health care economist are watching is medical plans provided to help cover the cost of care for individuals. These plans are put in place to help take some of the burdens off of the person while helping find affordable, reliable, quality care. Castor Collins is a health insurance group that provides insurance plans to companies to help cover their employees. In the University of Phoenix simulation (n.d.), two large organizations have come to Castor Collins to determine the right plan for their employees. As the VP of Castor Collins, it is my job to help them find the plan that fits their budget, one that is cost effective, and provides quality care. Castor Collins Health Plan is a regional HMO plan that started in 1999. This plan provides coverage to 100,000 people in its state. They are looking to increase the number of individuals that it covers. My colleagues (Helen Feuerman CEO, Jonathan Wilkes, MD, Chief Medical Officer, and Adam Hunter Executive Vice President of Planning and development) and I will be looking at options of the best way to provide this coverage for the individual, the companies who employ them, and Castro Collins (University of Phoenix, n.d...
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...Name: Elise Perkins Phone: 773-241-**** E-mail: *********@rocketmail.com Health Status and Health Care Services in the United Kingdom with comparison to the United States HSM310 Introduction to Health Services Management Course Project Date submitted: 11/29/2015 Table of Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Population and Health Status………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 3 Demographic characteristics of population Mortality, Infant mortality data, causes of death Other data of health status Related information (such as on quality if life); analysis Availability of Health Services………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Basic organization/general description of services institutions, providers of care Issues related to access Utilization of services (data, if available) Other related information/analysis Expenditures………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5 How are health services paid for; any roles for the government here Data on total expenditures Other related information/analysis Macroenvironmental influences on the health care system……………………………………………… 6 Political Socioeconomic Cultural Technological/Other relevant influences Summary comments…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7 Problems Opportunities Other related comments regarding this country's health care services Comparison to the United States: what works better, what is not working as well Concluding comments: Lessons...
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