By: Krystle Duffield, Melinda Mollenkopf, Tiffany Thompson

Objectives Identify 3 health disparities that minorities face.

Identify 3 ways to increase access to health care

for minorities.

Identify 2 ways to decrease health disparities

among minority groups.

Epidemiology-DescriptiveWho? Minorities:

Total Population from 2000 census: 281,421,906 White: 75.1% African American: 12.3% Hispanic: 12.5% Asian: 3.6% Pacific Islander: 0.1% Other: 5.5%

U.S. Department of Commerce. (2001). Profiles of general demographic characteristics: 2001 census of population and housing. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 13, 2010 from http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/dp1/2kh00.pdf

Epidemiology-Descriptive

Where: United States- Urban & Rural areas

Epidemiology-DescriptiveWhen? 1900-present:

Critical Thinking Question:

Why do you think that health care disparities exist for minorities?

Epidemiology- AnalyticWHY?

Health insurance, language, residency, income, and ethnicity have been found to be the most important determinant of access to health care (Zambrana & Carter-Pokras, 2010).

African American and Hispanic children are three times more likely than white to be in poverty (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2010).

Material barriers lead to unequal access to health care: such as insurance, transportation, educational, and ethnic culture (Zambrana & Carter-Pokras, 2010).

Cultural barriers and lack of understanding of their way of life lead to ineffective communication and service delivery to minority populations (Mwachofi, Lewis, & York, 2009).

Epidemiology-AnalyticHOW?

Not seeking health provider and following recommended treatment (Mwachofi, Lewis, & York, 2009).

Better health is more associated with social advantage than with social disadvantage (Zambrana & Carter-Pokras, 2010).

“The most important predictor of quality health care is access (Cohen, 2003). There are serious disparities in access to care (Kaiser Commission, 2000)” (as cited in Mwachofi, Lewis, & York, 2009, p. 13).

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Critical Thinking Question:

As nurses, how can we promote readily available health services to minority

populations?

Healthy People 2010Goals:

Increasing years of healthy lifeEliminate health disparities (Stanhope &

Lancaster, 2010).Objectives:

Promote healthy behaviorsIncrease access to quality health careIncrease community prevention

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Critical Thinking Question:

Based on Healthy People 2010’s goals, what are

some ways that we could increase healthy years in

minorities?

Healthy People 2010How to increase healthy years in minorities?

Health promotion and levels of prevention Primary Secondary Tertiary

Healthy People 2010Primary

Eating Healthy & Exercising (Siegal, Prelip, Erausquin, & Kim, 2010).

EducationVaccinations (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2010).Encouraging use of internet to increase

awareness of health information (Campbell, 2009).

Healthy People 2010Secondary

Cost of screening Why pay so much money for tests or insurance if you

don’t think you have a problem. Uninsured and underinsured are less likely to seek

preventative services such as screenings because of the cost and therefore more likely to acquire preventable illnesses (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2010).

Once Hispanics’ demographic socioeconomic and health system characteristics were controlled they had significantly higher odds of receiving screenings such as mammograms (Zambrana & Carter-Pokras, 2010).

Healthy People 2010Tertiary

Minority populations are less likely to start rehabilitation programs and for those that do, they are less likely to successfully complete the program.

“There are inadequate research and service delivery methods for minority populations with disabilities” (Mwachofi, Lewis, & York, 2009, p. 13).

Critical Thinking Question:

How do we eliminate health care disparities in

minorities?

The Community Health Nurses Role

How do we eliminate health care disparities in minorities?Knowledge of culture and environment of minorities.

Through community assessment the nurse gets a better understanding of that communities specific needs and getting the community involved leads to better outcomes (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2010).

Increase access to care Passing the health care bill would decrease disparities for

minorities because uninsured people will have easier access to health insurance.

Provide free screening clinics for health problems such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2010).

Critical Thinking Ethical Question:

Do you think that everyone should have equal access

to health care?

Health PlanningEducation

Educate health care worker in cultural diversity in the community being served using EBP (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2010). Integrating the culturally educated heath care worker with

EBP interventions that have been proven to have success will improve the communities’ outcomes (Moore et al., 2007)

Community Motivation to LearnHave minority community member to teach health

care workers about needs and desires.Community meeting to get community involved.Integrate cultural norms (Mwachofi, Lewis, & York,

2009).

Health PlanningAssess the community environment, situation,

and population.Find out the problems/ weaknesses of the

communityFind out strengths, resources, and funding that is

availableFind out what resources and funding is needed Transportation

Communication Build trust in the communityLanguage

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