Health Disparities among Underserved in the United States

Annotated Bibliography Health Disparities among Underserved in United State Thesis Statement Health disparity has been an issue of concern among the underserved in the United States as well as across the world. A high rate of difference in health and health care between different populations groups have been recorded over the years in the healthcare system. The challenge has greatly affected the ability of the larger population to access quality care and health either due to the increasing cost of accessing health care or unavailability of healthcare resources. Lack of or insufficient access to health care among the underserved and discriminated special and ethnic groups is leading to increasing of worsening of health outcomes. Disparities in health care occur across different dimensions which mainly include the difference in ethnic groups, social-economic status, location, age, gender, disability status, and sexual orientations among other factors. This paper provides literature work which explains deeply on the current status of health disparities while providing an appropriate approach for control and management of the issue thus enabling equity in health care access among all people. Accessing health resources for all is an appropriate social approach that provides guideline toward utilization of available limited resources for the benefit of all. Group Name Institutional Affiliation Summary of the Peer-reviewed Journals on Health Disparity National Academies of Sciences; Engineering; and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, & Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States. (2017). Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. /books/NBK425844/ This journal entails the reviewed work of the United States health committee on the current state of health disparities and the associated cause roots in United State. The committee focusses on the interdependent nature of the factors that leads to inequalities in the provision of healthcare services in the United States. Among the factors that are addressed in this material as the major cause of disparities and inequalities in the healthcare sector include Race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity, the disparity in economic status, and age (National Academic of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017). The research conducted herein highlights the population that is highly affected by health care disparity with a comparison between health care provisions among veterans and rural versus urban population. The findings of the conducted research as presented in this material indicates a high rate of disparities in health provision especially with reference to ethnicity and race. For instance, Native Americans are at high risk for chronic disease like cardiovascular diseases than the other group. The whites are considered to access high-quality health care with minimal spread of diseases, especially chronic disorders. Native Americans are however receiving communities, and community partners support in improving their health status toward health equity among them. This article is relevant in the research to indicate how the underserved strain to access the limited resources in the health sector and the efforts made for attaining equity in healthcare resource distribution. CHDIR. (2019, January 22). Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities. Retrieved from /minorityhealth/strategies2016/index.html This article at first provides the understanding of Health equity and health disparity through definition before addressing the detailed part of the issue of concern. From the authors perspective, health equity is achieved when everyone gets an opportunity to access quality and affordable health. On the other side, health disparity is the state of differences in the health outcomes among different groups. This article discusses the major goal of public health with reference to Healthy People 2020, which is to reduce disparities in the healthcare system. The major outlined goals for all stakeholders in the healthcare system is to ensure the achievement of health equity, eliminating disparities, and general improvement of health standards for all in the United States (CHDIR, 2019). This target is to be achieved through the sponsored initiatives like the Center for Disease Control (CDC) interventions and collective effort of all stakeholders in ensuring the attainment of equity in the health sector. The strategies reached through the findings of this article as reported in the CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report involves the establishment of effective public health programs which focuses on disparities reduction. Approaches involve addressing issues concerning a wide range of diseases, behavior risk factors, exposure to environmental risk factors, health determinants and accessibility of health care, especially for the underserved population. Approaches involve the provision of supplements by community health workers aiming at reducing the hospitalization rate of the affected population with chronic diseases like asthma. This article is relevant in providing required information on necessary interventions for the eradication of disparities in the health system especially for the minorities and the underserved in the United States. Implementation of the evidence-based program in health equity advancement is figured out as the appropriate approach for ensuring the provision of long and healthy lives for all. Vanderbilt, A., Dail, M., & Jaberi, P. (2015). Reducing health disparities in underserved communities via interprofessional collaboration across health care professions. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 205. doi:10.2147/jmdh.s74129 /reducing-health-disparities-in-underserved-communities-via-interprofes-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JMDH This article addresses how health disparity is formed in United States and provides appropriate interventions that would ensure a reduction of the problem among the U.S. population. The author has provided the factors that contribute to the disparity in United State and how they can be addressed. The major focus of this article is to provide successful inter-professional health care programs that ensure every individual can access quality and affordable health care in the United States. Provision of quality and affordable health care among the underserved requires the combined effort of the health care professionals, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social and community health w...