I decided to focus on health care for my Advocacy topic. So here are some facts about it!
Healthy People Goal 1: Access to Quality Health Care Services
Goal: to improve access to comprehensive, high quality health care services, and eliminate health disparities.
Objective: To provide better, more accessible services to home health care, adult day, assisted living, nursing home, and hospitals.
Target: 100%
Baseline:83% of people under age 65 years were covered by health insurance in 1997.
Progress: The Progress Quotient Chart indicates that individuals of all ages moved toward target for Sources of Ongoing Care by 11%. The chart also shows that Asian/Pacific Islander met the target for Health Professions(100%) in 1996–97 and 2001–02, while African American and Hispanic population moved toward the target by less than 10%. Poison Control Centers have been doing a really good job providing great services, and exceeded the target in 1999, 2000 by providing single toll-free number. The list goes on.....
Opportunities and Challenges: Residents with limited access to primary and preventive health care need to be focused on, so their health needs may be identified and met. There are challenges encountered for meeting targets for long-term care (LTC) services of nursing home, care home health, assisted living, and adult day care.
Emerging Issues: Timely access to the ED should be studied and tracked using measures that address health care disparities. Issues faced in LTC include topics of workforce, insurance, and consumer-directed services. Adding on, quality of care is an ongoing issue.
Disparities are showed in these three charts:
-Race and Ethnicity
-Gender and Education
-Income, location and Disability
The topic of Quality Health Care is pretty broad, so I had a hard time finding a specific bill that relates to it, but I did find something I think is relevant. It contains too many sections and it's too, so here is a link to it. :)
S.F. No. 2 - Health Care (Second Engrossment)
Author: Senator Linda Berglin
Prepared by: Katie Cavanor, Senate Counsel (651/296-3801)
Date: February 28th, 2007
Vote Yes for S.F.No. 2-Health Care bill.
Thanks for reading!
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Very good job on this assignment Valerie. You described this issue well, and its an issue that is a very real concern all around us. Looking forward to the rest of your project!
ReplyDeleteYAY!!! I love your topic! I think that having high quality, accessible health care for everyone is incredibly important. You are going to be able to do so much with this! I really hope that your bill gets passed. Maybe you should pick part of the bill to ask your representative to support, instead of the whole thing. Just a suggestion. Great job on your post!
ReplyDeleteAwesome choice Valerie. Good topic, I am doing mine on the health infrastructure so yours and mine kind of relates to each other. If advancements continue to increase with hospital infrastructures it will allow people to gain access to better health services. Cool post!
ReplyDeleteGreat topic Valerie, health care is something that I have always been interested in and it amazes me how many people do not have insurance or accessability to health care. Its good that individuals of all ages have moved towards the goal by 11%. You included a lot of information and it was interesting to read, good job!
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