Health Disperity

Health Disparities
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HEALTH DISPARITIES
Health disparities is well understood as the specific differences of a population in the existence of health outcomes, disease, health care access and value of health care services which exist across ethnic and racial groups. Disparities may stand for inefficiency within the system of health care and thus accounting for avoidable costs (Douglas & Marilyn & Pacquiao & Dula, 2011). Numerous factors lead to ethnic, socioeconomic, and racial disparities that include insufficient access to care, community features like violence and poverty, reduced quality of care and individual behaviors.
The personal status can be termed as interesting in the sense that is determined by the primitive living of my community. Based on a personal belief, education is very important in the lives of human beings because every individual have their role to play in the betterment of the society and world at large. Thus, I cherish knowledge a lot and this has added my sense of reasoning and living. Through attainment of education, my social status quite elevated because of shunning some primitive mentality and embracing modernity. In addition, I have attained various assets through income generated from employment after finishing my career course. My social status has attracted most associates of the same caliber and has helped in gaining respect and preference in our society costs (Douglas & Marilyn & Pacquiao & Dula, 2011). In the set up of our cultural group, most people are still hold on the primitive lifestyle of religion that hinders them from modernity and yet they are learning to appreciate the contemporary gifts from their learned children. This is evidenced by the fact that regardless of being quite different from our original culture in terms of behavior and some practices, I hold an important position in the community leadership and decision making. The important elderly meetings cannot be held without my approval and presence, irrespective of my young age. The elders also look upon me to mentor their young sons and daughters through motivational speaking that encourages them to embrace learning. The success of my hard work is considered their success and every time the community holds a fund-raiser, they count on me to help them gather a reasonable amount of funds from friends of my own class.
Having come from an Amish culture, one can simply understand the extent of backwardness involved especially in the aspect of medication. Our culture originated from Christianity beliefs that existed in Europe immediately after the reformation of protestant. This community is based on a unique culture that doesn’t match with any other in the United States. The members of the group are religious as well as hard-working and they value humility and primarily focus on maintaining family as well as community values. Most of the members of our community are farmers, which they derive from their religion. For instance, the farming part is derived from the bible where God told Adam and Eve to cultivate and dress the garden. In addition, some of the members of our community work as carpenters, laborers, carriage makers as well as craftsmen. This indicates their creativity and hard-work that existed within the community (Barr, 2008). They however had the perception of working on their own farms and home yards rather than working for outsiders. The level of formal education of the Amish people reaches up to the eighth grade and they are not allowed to have certificates for their education. This is because they believe in simplicity as per their religious teachings (Barrett, 2001). The religious reservations of this culture are brought about by their doubtfulness of the government offer of sponsorship in religion and baptism of infants. This is because they believed that the practice was against the Christ’s teachings from the Ne...