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  1. Social Issues in Healthcare

    Social issues in healthcare are also known as social determinants of health. Social determinants of health are the circumstances of the places where people reside, work, learn, and engage in recreation.These circumstances are the result of the distribution of money, resources, and power across international, national, and regional levels. Systemic health inequities can often be attributed to ...

  2. DISPARITIES IN HEALTHCARE

    A healthcare disparity is a difference between population groups in the way they access, experience, and receive healthcare. Factors that influence healthcare disparities include social, economic, environmental, and other disadvantages, 1, 2 some of which are explored in this report. Unfortunately, Americans too often do not receive care they ...

  3. Addressing Social Issues Affecting Health to Improve US Health Outcomes

    When so much attention has been focused on the health care system these past 7 years—an understandable preoccupation when 15% to 16% of the population is without health insurance—it is easy to forget how much more effective focusing on the social determinants can be for improving health outcomes, especially for children.

  4. Access to Healthcare and Disparities in Access

    Access to healthcare means having "the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes."1 Access to comprehensive, quality healthcare services is important for promoting and maintaining health, preventing and managing disease, reducing unnecessary disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all Americans.2 Attaining good access to care means ...

  5. The Role of Social Determinants of Health in Promoting Health Equality

    The most significant health factors include government policy, medical availability, individual behavioral choices, and biological and genetic features [].Examples of SDH include occupation, job status, workplace safety, level of income, opportunities for education, job and place of work protection, inequity between men and women, and segregation based on race.

  6. Access to Health Services

    Health insurance alone cannot remove every barrier to care. 3 Limited availability of health care resources is another barrier that may reduce access to health services and increase the risk of poor health outcomes. 20, 21 For example, ... Race and Social Problems, 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12552-021-09320-9. 24.

  7. PDF Essays on Health Care and Inequality

    observed health inequities. In the first chapter, I measure how differences in neighborhood environments contribute to Black-white disparities in primary care outcomes. I study this question in the context of preventive health care take-up among Medicare enrollees, a setting with full insurance and yet persistent racial gaps in recommended care.

  8. Health Equity Is Pursuing Social Justice in Health

    Radiology is playing an important role in achieving health equity with the newly formed health equity coalition, which aims to build the community effort needed to make a meaningful impact in addressing health disparities. This special issue of JACR on health equity brings together a diversity of topics and authors and will serve as a ...

  9. The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We Still

    Data increasingly showed that social, economic, environmental, and community conditions—together known as social determinants of health—may substantially influence the population's health more than care delivered by practitioners and healthcare systems. We know that healthcare organizations will increasingly need to address the social needs ...

  10. Five key barriers to healthcare access in the United States

    Some health systems have also developed shuttle systems and after-hours services to expand access. 5. Patient language barriers. 1 in 5 US households speaks a language other than English at home; meeting patients' language needs is a growing concern for health systems. When patients and clinicians don't speak the same language, it can ...

  11. 5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System

    They include: focus on prevention, not just treating sickness; tackle racial disparities; expand telehealth and in-home services; build integrated systems; and adopt value-based care. Since early ...

  12. Why Racial Inequities Still Persist in Health Care

    The ensuing criticism led to the resignation of the top editor and culminated with a pledge to increase staff diversity and publish a more inclusive array of papers. "The topics of racial and ...

  13. Covid-19

    A Crisis in Public Health. The United States has 4% of the world's population but, as of July 16, approximately 26% of its Covid-19 cases and 24% of its Covid-19 deaths. 17 These startling ...

  14. Social Issues in Healthcare

    Also known as the " social determinants of health ," social issues in healthcare describe the factors that make it easier or harder for someone to get access to quality care and wellness opportunities. Typically, people with more resources and power have a much easier time getting the treatment and advice they need to stay healthy.

  15. Health Care 2030: The Coming Transformation

    They also assess the future evolution of payment systems leading toward sustainable health, changes in provider roles, and the entrance of new nontraditional players. For more on this topic, watch Health Systems in 2030, a free NEJM Catalyst virtual event held on March 4, 2021.

  16. Barriers to healthcare access among U.S. adults with mental health

    Mental health issues can occur along a wide spectrum and include formal illness/diagnostic disease but also comprise problems related to moral injury and distress. ... Items 2 through 8 in Table 1 highlight specific characteristics of access as they relate to availability (the ability to reach healthcare services both physically and in a timely ...

  17. 13.4 Problems of Health Care in the United States

    Private Health Insurance and the Lack of Insurance. Medicine in the United States is big business. Expenditures for health care, health research, and other health items and services have risen sharply in recent decades, having increased tenfold since 1980, and now costs the nation more than $2.6 trillion annually (see Figure 13.6 "US Health-Care Expenditure, 1980-2010 (in Billions of ...

  18. Health Care Is Long Overdue for a Social Justice Reckoning

    This article was originally published with the title " Health Care Is Long Overdue for a Social Justice Reckoning " in SA Health & Medicine Vol. 2 No. 5 (October 2020) doi:10.1038 ...

  19. Essay: Rediscovering The Social Determinants Of Health

    The social determinants of health that typically make up this field of study are social class, sex, age, race, and ethnicity. In this essay I focus mainly on social class but note that there is a ...

  20. Health Care Access and Quality

    Healthy People 2030 focuses on improving health by helping people get timely, high-quality health care services. About 1 in 10 people in the United States don't have health insurance.1 People without insurance are less likely to have a primary care provider, and they may not be able to afford the health care services and medications they need.

  21. Health Care

    Health Care - Social Issues, Research Paper Example. Pages: 6. Words: 1556. Research Paper. Hire a Writer for Custom Research Paper. Use 10% Off Discount: "custom10" in 1 Click 👇. HIRE A WRITER! You are free to use it as an inspiration or a source for your own work. Health is a crucial aspect of complete well-being, composed of overall ...

  22. Social Problem In Health Care

    The United States healthcare crisis is a social problem. A social problem is some aspect of society that people are concerned about and would like changed. A social problem is not a natural disaster like hurricanes and tornados. The two essential components of a social problem are an objective condition, which is a condition of society that can ...

  23. What to Know About New Covid Variants, 'FLiRT': Symptoms, Vaccines and

    Still, the shot does provide some protection, especially against severe disease, doctors said, as do previous infections. At this point, there isn't reason to believe that KP.2 would cause more ...

  24. Australia's housing crisis in 10 graphs, from the federal budget

    $423m in additional funding (over five years from 2024-25) to the National Agreement on Social Housing and Homelessness to boost support for social housing and homelessness services.

  25. Challenges to Healthcare in India

    A 2002 paper speaks of access being a complex concept and speaks of aspects of availability, supply, and utilization of healthcare services as being factors in determining access. Barriers to access in the financial, organizational, social, and cultural domains can limit the utilization of services, even in places where they are "available."