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    Health Disparities: Transportation Equity and Applied Theories Summary of the Problem and Applied Middle-Range Theory All people, regardless of demographics, race, age, or physical limitations, deserve to have access to available resources within their own community. According to the American Public Health Association (APHA), health equity is defined as: all individuals merit the opportunity to achieve optimal health ("Health Equity," 2016); furthermore, health disparities are described as the “differences

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    the culturally competent strategies that ameliorate health disparities in this country. Over the years health issues have increase rapidly. There are different ethnic backgrounds shows that their health plays a big role culturally and also diversity. Health disparities are gaps in the quality of health and health care that mirror differences in socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic background, and education level. These disparities may stem from many factors, including accessibility of health

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    community is unaware of the disparities. Significance of Study This study strives to increase the awareness of healthcare disparities among veterans in hopes that veterans can receive the best healthcare possible. This study has the potential to change the structure of veterans’ health care. If their health care is damaged to the extent that some insiders and outsiders believe it to be, then hopefully the veterans’ health care system can be restructured. These disparities can be addressed in community

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    “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness (US 1776)” One of the prime concepts of the constitution was the upholding of equality. Our ancestors believed that everyone was equal and thus should all be able to pursue the same basic luxuries equally. Everyone should be able to pursue life and accordingly be able to purse a means of protecting

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    issues and disparities that plague our nation. One of these hot button topics is that of healthcare. The United States is the only developed nation without a universal healthcare system, but spends the most for health services. With so many Americans lacking the adequate care needed or facing bankruptcy due to piling medical bills, one must look at the health disparities that are causing this super power nation to inadequately serve its citizens. Donald Barr’s text Health Disparities in the United

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    Introduction Health disparity(ies) are defined as a significant disparity in overall rate of disease incidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality or survival rates in the population as compared to the health status of the general population (Minority Health & Health Disparities Research and Education Act, 2000). Let’s take the public health and epidemiological terminology into a simplified form. A health disparity or health disparities exist when one group is compared to the general population:

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    When it comes to healthcare racial disparities continue to be an ongoing issue. In fact racial disparities have been a topic of discussion since desegregation. The US Department of Health and Human Services, in 1984 published a report that called attention to the healthcare disparities. The report was called Heath, United States 1983(Dougher, 2015). Within the context of the report there lies a passage that describes the major disparities that are within the burden of illness and death that is experienced

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    Health Disparities

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    population health research studies and interventions studies reported of health disparities. In addition to being well informed with health disparities they have access to investing, research and collecting evidence in assisting them to gather information that can influence health care polices. With each research that is conducted can possibly create new or old policies to be improved and aimed to reduce health disparities. The Methods used are blends of information provided by evidence based information

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    Racial Disparities

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    Racial disparities in HIV incidence were examined by both Des Jarlais et al. and Scheer et al. The main objective for Des Jarlais et al. was to identify disparities in HIV incidence during a time period where the HIV epidemic has come to an end. On the other hand, Scheer et al. aimed to estimate the HIV incidence in the state of California in order to prioritize certain populations for HIV prevention and treatment. Participants in Des Jarlais et al. were individuals who were admitted into a drug

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    Disparity In London

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    A key cause of unaffordable housing in the South East and London, and regional inequality in the UK, is that both the UK’s politics and finance sectors are based in London. It could therefore be argued to eliminate regional disparity and the inflated property market, we must separate parliament from the finance sector. Moving parliament to a city in the North of England such as Manchester would cause thousands of high skilled workers to migrate to the North, stimulating the local economy. General

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