Assignment:
Factors Contributing to Health Disparities and Ways to Address Them.
"Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations" (CDC, 2015). Often, health disparities are thought to deal with ethnicity or racial differences, but there are more factors involved than just those two things like age, gender, geographical location, or disability, to name a few. Health disparities are considered to occur anywhere a difference between health outcomes exists.
The Healthy People 2020 objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals are two ambitious approaches to addressing the disparities found in vulnerable populations. In this Assignment, you will determine factors that contribute to health disparities, how culture impacts treatment in healthcare, and how the goals and objectives plan to reduce or eliminate health disparities.
Reference:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015). Health disparities.
To prepare for this Assignment, review the following with your Healthy People 2020 assigned focus area in mind:(Mental health)
• Review the definition of culture and articles relating to how culture impacts treatment in healthcare.
• The Sustainable Development Goals Report
• Healthy People 2020 Goals
• Focus your attention on the second Overarching Goal: "Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups."
To complete this Assignment, write a 4 to 5 page paper that addresses the following questions.
• Part 1: Social Ecological Factors and Culture
• What social ecological factors contribute to the existence of health disparities? (Examples include socioeconomics and education.)
• How might one's culture serve as a barrier to equal treatment when it comes to healthcare? Give an example. ( Note: Please remember that culture is not just skin color or ethnicity. Culture can be about gender, age, generation, religion, or any other characteristic that can lead to differences in social behavior or norms.)
• Give two examples of how populations experience unequal treatment and disparity in healthcare. Provide some statistics to help illustrate this point from the CDC, the textbook, this week's Learning Resources, or another reliable source.
• How do the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals address such health disparities?
• Part 2: Application to Healthy People 2020 Focus Area
• Discuss two to three Healthy People 2020 objectives that provide a framework for addressing health disparities, based on your Healthy People assigned focus area.
• Support your answers with statistical information about your Healthy People assigned focus area. The following are a few websites that provide a wealth of data regarding specific populations and the Healthy People 2020 assigned focus area:
• State Health Facts, Kaiser Family Foundation www.statehealthfacts.org
• Statistical Information System, World Health Organization
• Interactive Map: AIDS in the U.S.
Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week's Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Also, since this is your only Assignment, you may want to submit this the Writing Center tutor first.
Required reading resources
Attachment:- The Social Ecology of Health Model.rar