Diversity and Disparities and Access to Care
Diversity in the workforce, health literacy, cultural, language, gender, racial diversity and more impact access to care. Examine the following links to gain an understanding of the issues to assess:
- Healthcare Access in Rural Communities
- AHRQ – Chartbook on Access to Health Care Elements of Access to Health Care
- Top Challenges Impacting Patient Access to Healthcare
- Healthy People 2020 access to care and barriers to care
- AHIP article entitled Factors Affecting Premiums in 2019 outlines premium rates that reflect many complex factors and variation in rates across states and markets.
- Health Literacy Quick Fact Sheet and examples of the application of health literacy, NIH Health Literacy
- National Institute of Health addresses Health Care Disparities
- The Priority Populations seeks to address the populations that Congress deems a priority when preventing errors to prevent disparities.
- Access to Care
- OHM Linguistic Competency
- HHS Office of Minority Health
- 2019 AHRQ Research Data Informatics
After reviewing these sources, the ones in the additional resources folder, and others you may have found – discuss the following:
- Discuss what you learned and how the different models of care may encourage access to care, consumer and provider expectations and behaviors.
- Discuss the many factors that impact a person’s access to and quality of health care and its associated outcomes in the United States?
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