Health Care Disparities

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Subject Area:Health Care

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Conversely, refers to differences between groups in health coverage, access to care, and quality of care. While disparities are commonly viewed through the lens of race and ethnicity, they occur across many dimensions, including socioeconomic status, age, location, gender, disability status, and sexual orientation. The populations most vulnerable to health and health care disparities are often referred to as priority or vulnerable populations. Vulnerable populations include groups that are not well integrated into the health care system across a variety of characteristics, including race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, geographic location, language, gender, disability status, citizenship status, and sexual identity and orientation. These groups are not mutually exclusive and often interact in important ways. It goes ahead into childhood. Children of low socioeconomic status have a greater risks of death from infectious diseases.

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Conversely, Adolescent health, Adult health all the to elderly disparities are in existence in relation to low status of socioeconomic. Implications Most of the health care provided to the urban and rural poor is delivered by safety net providers including hospitals outpatient clinics, community health centers, and non-governmental organizations. However, this safety net providers is endangered. For example, through Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) grants funded by the Centers for Disease Control, a number of states, local health departments, universities and non-profit groups have implemented community-focused interventions to reduce specific neighborhood-based disparities. These interventions are varied in scope and focus on outreach, cultural competency training, and education. A number of private foundations have also developed significant initiatives aimed at reducing disparities and providers are increasingly undertaking disparities-focused efforts.

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