Effectiveness of Cost and Quality Healthcare for African American Women



Effectiveness of Cost and Quality Healthcare for African American Women

Introduction

In term of health care status, mortality, and rate of disability, minority women are lacking behind white women, particularly African American Women. In spite of introduction of new technology and other advancement in health care system in past few years, the discrepancies are still growing for some conditions. For instance, in every four black women one woman has diabetes in the age of over 55 years. If the issue of diabetes in minority women in United States is compared against the white women, it is at least 2 to 4 times greater (U.S Department of Health & Human Services, 2010). This paper demonstrates the health care system in the United States and effectiveness of quality of healthcare system for minorities, in particular African American women.

Discussion

The death rate due to breast cancer is falling, but the prevalence of breast cancers is still at rise. Poor people and African American women are more likely to be affected by the breast cancer than white women and dying from the cancer. Moreover, HIV / AIDS, lupus, and high blood pressure are also affecting African American women in United States. Self-assessment of health of a patient is dependable indicator of well being and health as per to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 15 % of African American women are in poor or fair health as compared to 11 % of whites when asked about the health care status.

Healthcare System

The health system in the United States is characterized by contradictions and complexity. On one hand, has great U.S. amount of the latest technology, including many of the best faculties of medicine, clinics, hospitals, and research centers worldwide. Without But many Americans health resources are never the provision of much of the population. The great American contradiction is having one of the large, expensive, and complicated systems in world health, while that over 42 million Americans have minimal access to health resources.

The debate over the health system increases each year as system problems increasingly affect citizens. The three problems larger health systems are: System Administration social security, political influence on the reform proposals and contradiction between the cost of the health system and the services it offers. Perhaps the biggest problem of the health system in the United States is where access to a universal health care system is not considered an issue.

Issues of health system in the United States

Lately, most Americans are dissatisfied with the health system in their country, and many interest groups have pressured politicians to change the system to one that guarantees universal coverage, by health insurance for all citizens. However, as in every country in the world, many of the proposed reforms have been lost as political promises, and in the meantime, the American health system is deteriorates more each year according to public opinion (Hillman, 2009). The only certainty is that America, as a nation has not considered the issue of health as a human ...