The Copper Queen Community Hospital

Social Determinants of Health
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The Copper Queen Community Hospital in Arizona is one of the rural clinics, with its core aim of offering a broad range of health services. Just like any other state in the U.S, the Copper Queen Community Hospital is expected to fight diabetes, which has been a great burden to individuals and the healthcare system. The social determinants of health, including socio-economic and psychological factors, have played a significant role in influencing the patterns, trends and prevalence of diabetes. Thus, it is paramount to adopt comprehensive approaches to managing diabetes while considering the social determinants of health.
Social Determinants of Health
Social determinants of health encompass conditions in a given environment, which affect a broad range of health issues including functioning, health risk and outcomes. Social determinants of health entail both the social and economic circumstances which influence health status. The main social determinants of health include economic stability, education, social and community, healthcare and environment. Diabetes is one of the chronic and non-communicable diabetes that has become a burden to the healthcare system. Diabetes represents a constellation of symptoms that relate to impaired sugar metabolism. Social determinants of health can modulate the biological processes associated with sugar metabolism. The Copper Queen Community Hospital is one of the crucial rural clinics in the heart of Arizona, which has been providing healthcare services, including diabetic care.
The Copper Queen Community Hospital is of the leading rural clinics in Bisbee, Arizona in the U.S. It is a full-service home health agency, which operates under the umbrella of Copper Queen Community Health. The Copper Queen Community Hospital has existed and served communities in Bisbee and other parts of Southeast Arizona for at least 125 years. It continues to strive for improving and providing quality healthcare services. The Community Hospital campus has a wide range of services including laboratory and imaging, occupation medicine, physical therapy and telemedicine, among others.
It provides daily nursing care for patients during the day and 24-hour on-call support, being accompanied by emergency response systems that guarantee further comfort. For instance, the hospital has deployed competent nurses who provide services associated with diabetes, medication, heath and lung disease, wound care and in-home rehabilitation service, which can restore health and improve the quality of life in patients who are recovering from a stroke, traumas or fractures.
The population of focus in this paper is the adult population with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes affects a significant portion of the population in Arizona. The American diabetic association reports that about 682,071 people in Arizona, which represents 12.5% of the adult population, do have diabetes: out of this approximately 172,000 people do have diabetes, but they are not aware, diagnosis each year stands at 34,000 while about 37.5 % of adults are already pre-diabetic (American Diabetes Association,2015).Further, American Diabetes Association findings show that diab...