Health Care Disparity Paper Revision PAPER REVISION SEE ATTACHED PAPER W/ PROF COMMENTS INSTRUCTIONS For this assessment, develop a 1–2-page summary tha

Health Care Disparity Paper Revision PAPER REVISION

SEE ATTACHED PAPER W/ PROF COMMENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

For this assessment, develop a 1–2-page summary that explains the disparity you chose in terms of predisposing, enabling, and need factors.

Make sure you answer the following questions in your summary:

What change in an enabling factor would be most likely to reduce that disparity? Why?
What impact would the change to the enabling factor have on access to care?
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Length: Paper must be 1–2 pages, typed and double-spaced, using Times New Roman, 12-point content (length excludes title page, abstract, table of contents, and reference list).
References: Cite at least two references. Your references may include both scholarly literature and practitioner sources.
Written communication: Writing must be free of errors, scholarly, and consistent with expectations for business professionals.
Writing style: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so.
APA formatting: Writing must be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting and include a title page, abstract, table of contents, and reference list. Running head: RACIAL AND ETHNICITY HEALTHCARE DISPARITY
Racial and Ethnicity Healthcare Disparity
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Racial and Ethnicity Healthcare Disparity
Introduction
Disparities in health and health care continue to be tenacious adversity in most
jurisdictions across the world. In the United States, racial and ethnic healthcare disparity is one
of the dominant forms of inequality that results in inequities, poor quality, and inaccessibility of
healthcare services among people of the color.
Thesis statement
Health disparities have been a persistent issue for several decades, thus require the
development of appropriate interventions to derive long term solutions. Even if the
implementation of regulations as the ACA has improved the situation, it is still necessary to
address and facilitate the universal access to healthcare regardless of the person’s race or age.
Analysis
55% of the 32.3 million uninsured nonelderly individuals are African Americans (Artiga,
Foutz, Cornachione & Garfield, 2016). Such a significant percentage indicates the difficulties
that people of color face in access to and utilization of healthcare. The proportion of uninsured
people is considerably larger than the percentage of people of color in American society,
suggesting that they have more difficulties in accessing appropriate healthcare than other ethnic
groups.
In principle, the existence of health discrepancies on ethics and racial lines has
been caused by numerous underlying factors which include implicit provider bias, social
determinants, biological factors and access to healthcare (Long, Liu, & Bristow, 2013). Members
of senior African Americans are often prone to severe ailments due to poor overall health and
nonexistence of preventive care (Bergmark & Sedaghat, 2017). The social determinant,
particularly the socioeconomic aspect, is, however, perceived as the primary cause of health
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disparity specific ethnic and racial groups in the US. This factor is especially critical for elder
African Americans, who experimented the health disparities for most of their lives and currently
suffer the consequences of such inequality. For example, auditory problems appear to be more
frequent among elder African Americans than in any other group even though there is not an
apparent biological reason for such higher incidence rate (Nieman et al., 2015). A more in-depth
analysis suggests that this disparity, which results in an incidence rate 1.68 times higher than for
elder white Americans, illustrates how the inability to access appropriate preventative healthcare
assistance has caused this population a health concern which can directly trace back to health
disparities among African Americans and white Americans (Nieman et al., 2015). Improved
access to preventive measures will likely alleviate this disparity in the future.
According to Sealy-Jefferson, Vickers Elam and Wilson (2015), more than 50 percent of
uninsured citizens in the USA emanate from racial and ethnic minority groups. Many of them
also faced difficulties in attempting to apply to Medicaid’s assistance before the implementation
of the ACA, implying that they did not have access to guaranteed quality healthcare as they have
scarce support and not sufficient resources to pay for private insurance (Clark et al., 2016).
Conclusions
The health of ethnic minority and people of the color in the US have consistently lagged
for several years. To address this disparity, I would propose two distinct approaches. The first
approach would be to provide this group with sufficient resources with which to be able to easily
accessing healthcare. Secondly, it would be necessary to increase their awareness about the
benefits of preventive care programs among these groups, which would ensure the rate of
preventable hospitalizations among them declines. It would include an introduction of health
awareness and training programs among the groups.
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References
Artiga, S., Foutz, J., Cornachione, E., & Garfield, R. (2016). Key facts on health and health care
by race and ethnicity. Kaiser Family Foundation, 7.
Bergmark, R. W., & Sedaghat, A. R. (2017). Disparities in health in the United States: An
overview of the social determinants of health for otolaryngologists. Laryngoscope
investigative otolaryngology, 2(4), 187-193.
Clark, C. R., Ommerborn, M. J., Coull, B., Pham, D. Q., & Haas, J. S. (2016). Income inequities
and Medicaid expansion are related to racial and ethnic disparities in delayed or forgone
care due to cost. Medical Care, 54(6), 555.
Long, B., Liu, F. W., & Bristow, R. E. (2013). Disparities in uterine cancer epidemiology,
treatment, and survival among African Americans in the United States. Gynecologic
Oncology, 130(3), 652-659.
Nieman, C. L., Marrone, N., Szanton, S. L., Thorpe Jr, R. J., & Lin, F. R. (2016). Racial/ethnic
and socioeconomic disparities in hearing health care among older Americans. Journal of
Aging and Health, 28(1), 68-94.
Sealy-Jefferson, S., Vickers, J., Elam, A., & Wilson, M. R. (2015). Racial and ethnic health
disparities and the Affordable Care Act: a status update. Journal of racial and ethnic
health disparities, 2(4), 583-588.

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