...•Identify an area of health disparity, and find a bill/policy affecting that disparity. •State and explain your position on this bill/policy. •Identify all stakeholders. •Determine the impact of this bill/policy on each stakeholder including access, quality, and/or cost. •Create a plan of action to affect the health care disparity. Describe specific actions you propose to take in this plan of action. •How you will evaluate the effectiveness of this plan of action? An ideal health delivery plan would strive to expand physician access to rural areas. We will facilitate more recruitment for potential medical students from rural areas. "Research indicates that physician’s personal characteristics play a significant role in their practice location." (Singh, 2008, p. 132) If the medical student comes from a rural or inner city area, they are more likely to start their practice there. This will help with the This will help with the lack of physicians in these areas. There will also be rural-based training programs for medical students. "Appropriate training can help alleviate some of the preconceived deterrents to rural and inner city practice" (Singh, 2008, p. 132) There will be more incentives for medical students who choose to practice in rural areas. Also, facilitating more reimbursement opportunities so that they are comparable to physicians in suburban and metropolitan areas. Today, access is restricted to those who have health insurance...
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...health access which is the ability to obtain affordable, convenient, acceptable, and effective personal health services in a timely matter. (Singh, 2008) As it stands today, the availability of health care is not equal for all. “Certain population groups in the United State face greater challenges then than the general population in accessing timely and needed health care services.” (Singh, 2008, p. 428) Being able to have access to adequate health care is the key factor of whether a not a person is able to maintain a healthy lifestyle. We believe that by expanding access to rural areas, promoting freestanding clinics and urgent care centers, and integrating public and private sector insurance to facilitate competition are steps in the right direction to ensure adequate access to all. Over the years there has been a major increase in physicians. “Current numbers far surpass the estimated 145 to 185 physicians per 100,000 populations that the United States actually needs.” (Singh, 2008, p. 129) these physicians are not being equally distributed throughout the health care system evenly. "Although all Americans are affected by problems with our health care delivery system, an overwhelming body of evidence demonstrates that certain populations are significantly more likely to receive lower quality health care than others." (Kaiser, 2008) Since the government does not mandate how a physician should be trained, people are striving to be medical specialist instead...
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...In Cold Blood Truman Capote I. The Last to See Them Alive The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there's much to see simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Rail-road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced "Ar-kan-sas") River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields. After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign - dance - but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. Nearby is another building...
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...In Cold Blood Truman Capote I. The Last to See Them Alive The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there's much to see simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Rail-road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced "Ar-kan-sas") River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields. After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign - dance - but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. Nearby is another building...
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