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SOCW04 week 1 return to my posted discussion #2
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Learning Resources to be used as references to support your answers.
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Required Readings
Gehlert, S., & Browne, T. (Eds.). (2012). Handbook of health social work (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
· Chapter 7, “Community and Health” (pp. 143–163)
Gehlert, S., & Browne, T. (Eds.). (2012). Handbook of health social work (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
· Chapter 4, “Public Health and Social Work”
· Section: “History of Public Health and Social Work” (pp. 65–67)
· Section: “Common Values” (pp. 70–75)
Coren, E., Iredale, W., Rutter, D., & Bywaters, P. (2011). The contribution of social work and social interventions across the life course to the reduction of health inequalities: A new agenda for social work education? Social Work Education, 30(6), 594–609.
Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.
Errickson, S. P., Alvarez, M., Forquera, R., Whitehead, T. L., Fleg, A., … Schoenbach, V. J. (2011). What will health-care reform mean for minority health disparities? Public Health Reports, 126(2), 170–175. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056029/
Nguyen, D. D., Ho, K. H., & Williams, J. H. (2011). Social determinants and health service use among racial and ethnic minorities: Findings from a community sample. Social Work in Health Care, 50(5), 390–405.
Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.
Robinson, L. M., Dauenhauer, J., Bishop, K. M., & Baxter, J. (2012). Growing health disparities for persons who are aging with intellectual and developmental disabilities: The social work linchpin. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 55(2), 175–190.
Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.
Optional Resources
Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.). HHS action plan to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities. A nation free of disparities in health and health care. Retrieved from http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/npa/files/Plans/HHS/HHS_Plan_complete
This post is NOT a WORK it is read only this is my posted discussion for SOCW 04week 7 discussion #1 from which the students made the comments on.
RE: Discussion 2 – Week 7
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Health Care Delivery and Health Care Disparities
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An explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of the current health care delivery system when addressing health disparities in ethnic minorities, lower income populations, and other disadvantaged populations in communities.
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Health disparities or disadvantages are pervasive in the USA. Health and healthcare differences are the dissimilarities or gaps in wellbeing for example life expectancy and risk factors and healthcare access and quality amid the segments of the USA populace as connected with such disparities in areas where there is ethnic minorities, lower income populations, and other disadvantaged populations in communities (Nguyen, Ho, & Williams, 2011). Racial and ethnic minorities may encounter problems in getting access to medical care in the USA. When they get it, their care might not be the same as to that for other groups. the reason it is so, although, it might be a difficult matter comprising not simply differences in capacity to pay and provider conduct, but also in such issues as patient inclinations, differential action by providers, and physical inconsistency.
Hispanics, blacks and some Asian communities, when likened with other whites seem to have lower grades of health insurance coverage, with Hispanics encountering larger obstacles to health indemnity compared to any other group.
2. Explain the medical social workers’ roles in the health care delivery system, which might specifically address health disparities in vulnerable populations.
The medical social workers have a duty of assessing the patients for psychosocial problems that they may require to help with. They determine the kind of psychological, social or monetary challenges a patient might have because of their medical statues (Robinson, Dauenhauer, Bishop, & Baxter, 2012). Hospital social workers might not see each patient who comes into the hospital. They will normally receive a referral from a medic or nurse for social work amenities.
After assessing the needs of the patient, the social worker will intervene as required. The patient assistance required might differ relying on the needs of the patient. For instance, some patients might require help linking them with services in their community for example a homeless shelter or drug treatment sustenance (Robinson, Dauenhauer, Bishop, & Baxter, 2012). Other patients might need help comprehending their medical status and navigating all involved with their hospice stay. Social workers similarly offer the patients education on the treatment alternatives and aid to coordinate services required after discharge, for example medical equipment. Medical social workers also organize grief psychotherapy or other mental health amenities for patients.
3. Explain one component of the current health care delivery system in which you might advocate for change to ensure access to health care for vulnerable populations.
One component in the healthcare I will advocate for change is the insurance coverage. The blacks, some Asians, and the Hispanics, when likened to the whites seems to have lesser levels of health insurance coverage, with Hispanics larger barriers to health insurance compared to any other group. I will advocate for this to change to ensure healthcare for vulnerable populations (Robinson, Dauenhauer, Bishop, & Baxter, 2012).
References
Nguyen, D. D., Ho, K. H., & Williams, J. H. (2011). Social determinants and health service use among racial and ethnic minorities: Findings from a community sample. Social Work in Health Care, 50(5), 390–405.
Robinson, L. M., Dauenhauer, J., Bishop, K. M., & Baxter, J. (2012). Growing health disparities for persons who are aging with intellectual and developmental disabilities: The social work linchpin. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 55(2), 175–190.
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Work #1
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting.
1. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of your colleagues’ comments.
WORK #1 Denise Smith
RE: Discussion 2 – Week 7
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Cheraldo,
Thank you for your post. I agree, one of the components I would champion for is health care coverage for vulnerable populations. Vulnerable populations do not get equal treatment for health insurance as some whites. According to a recent report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on Unequal Treatment (2002). “a large body of published research reveals that racial and ethnic minorities experience a lower quality of health services, and are less likely to receive routine medical procedures than are White Americans” (p.3).
Institute of Medicine. (2002). Unequal treatment confronting racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. Institute of Medicine Report. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press.
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