Overcoming Healthcare Disparities in the United States

Overcoming Healthcare Disparities in the United States
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Overcoming Healthcare Disparities in the United States
Healthcare disparities in the United States (U.S.) might be conceptualized as the variations among different groups of people in their quest to achieve optimal healthcare access and outcomes. Healthcare disparities might be evaluated regarding the differences in adverse health outcomes and illness prevalence in diverse groups. The changing patient demographics in urban centers augments the prevalence of segregation (structural racism) and implicit bias against marginalized communities. Urbanites, including Hispanic and African Americans, are constantly facing health disparities, prompting the need for community advocacy to mitigate the problems. The goal is to ensure research funders support studies on health care access and quality disparities, especially those tailored to address segregation and explicit and implicit prejudice across different areas of marginalized status on healthcare delivery and health outcomes (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017). These goals would be handy in designing practical approaches to mitigate and reduce the implications of implicit and explicit bias in healthcare, which undermines healthcare access and outcomes among the changing patient demographics in urban areas.
The best practice is to implement community-based programs by ensuring that patient care processes and recruitment of healthcare professionals respect and reflects the demographic profile of the communities in the urban center. This strategy would prove feasible in reducing health disparities among patients by offering equal chances to healthcare services to all people regardless of their diversity. Ensuring equity for all can be implemented by addressing factors driving discrimination in healthcare settings. Community-based program implementation would also be attained via self-determination and encouraging native leadership among the people in America. This would increasingly ensure community participation in understanding, analyzing, and making suggestions for the solutions involving the causes of healthcare disparities, including structural discrimination and explicit and implicit bias (Chin et al., 2018). Furthermore, equity will be achieved by scheming quality care and payment guidelines to attain equity and making healthcare av...