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Reflection
Choose one of the following questions to answer as an initial post. Then respond to one peer. Refer to the syllabus for due dates of initial post and peer response.
Week 4: Chapters 7 and 8
- Briefly describe the effects of personal health behavior (e.g., tobacco use, risky drinking, diet, and physical activity) on individual and population health status and health care costs in the United States. How have health behavior change programs and interventions changed over the past 40 years?
- What are vulnerable populations? Where do you encounter such vulnerable people in your daily life? How is our health care delivery system fragmented? How does this fragmentation affect vulnerable populations? What are some ways that we, as a nation, could improve delivery of health care services to vulnerable populations? Feel free to mention ideas presented in the textbook, as well as any of your own.
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Vulnerable population
Vulnerable population refers to the group of economically disadvantaged people, the
elderly, homeless, low-income children, the uninsured, infected with HIV or chronic diseases
among other diseases. The vulnerable population may also include people in rural areas, who
have difficulties in accessing medical care due to factors like transport and communication
barriers. Some of the factors which enhance vulnerability include race, ethnicity, sex, income,
lack of source of care as well as health insurance coverage (Knickman & Kovner 2011).
Personally, I meet vulnerable populations in rural areas, areas affected with natural calamities
like floods and even children in the streets who do not have people taking care of them.
Fragmentation of Health care delivery system
There are three types of healthcare delivery system: primary, secondary and tertiary
healthcare. Primary healthcare aims at providing local care to patients. It has a broad range of
psychological, physical and social problems. Secondary healthcare provides medical specialists
who deal with patients from primary healthcare that ar...