Assignment task: Whether one lives in an urban city, a gated suburban community, or a small town in rural America, the presence and realities of vulnerable populations are prevalent and their access to health care is limited. The lives of people in these populations are interwoven into communities and neighborhoods. They are homeless veterans that you see sleeping on park benches, a single mother of three who just lost her job and insurance benefits, a young man diagnosed with HIV who is in college, the neighbor's daughter who dropped out of high school and has been abusing drugs to self-medicate her untreated bipolar depression, or a retired police officer who is living on a fixed income and who had both lower legs amputated due to complications of diabetes.
Problem 1: Choose three vulnerable populations from the readings.
Problem 2: Identify the barriers to accessing health care for your population.
Problem 3: Which of the three populations you selected has the largest barriers to health care access?
Why? This should be validated by research.
Problem 4: Identify one thing you think could be done to further reduce barriers to access to health care for the population you chose in question #3 and explain