Annotated Bibiliography on Health care legislation

Erica Gibson

Professor Vance

HLTH 556

10 August 2017

Overview of legislation:

Health inequality is generally part of America life, so profoundly entangled with other social issues—disparities in education, gender, income, race, geography, and housing—that the analysts have difficulty saying, which factors are effect and which are the cause. Improving access to health care as well as making healthcare more affordable to all citizenswill ultimately solve the problem. The proposed legislation provided a wide range of strategies to address barriers to health imparities for less marginalized. The law provides a solid plan to minimize racial as well as ethnic health disparities among the American citizens and offers a platform for them to access healthcare freely, (Gilbert Gonzales. (2011). The law will also compel the health department to frequently conduct health screening and tests on the marginalized group to help improve their health and minimizes cases of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and obesity, which is common among this social group. The law also compelling the American Shamans to embrace the modern care in addition to their healing techniques

Legislative Proposal: Outline of Key Points

1. Healthcare Legislation

1. Improving data collection

1. Access to health information

1. marginalized group in America

1. Accessible to all stakeholders

1. Building an integrated healthcare system platform

1. detailed data about all the marginalized communities

2. Coverage for Shaman Americans and other American minority Americans earning minimum wage and below

1. Establish development and training programs

1. To provide opportunity to this community

2. Tackle daunting barriers confronted

1. those with limited English proficiency (LEP)

1. Affordable premium plans for the communities based on the income level

2. Making coverage more accessible.

1. Improving health system

1. Building additional healthcare facilities in these regions

1. Center for chronic diseases

2. Rehabilitation centers

1. Hiring more medical personnel

1. Physicians

2. Doctors

3. Nurses

4. Midwives

5. Dentists & psychiatrist

1. Authorizing grants

1. Fight diseases

1. Faced predominantly by minority communities

1. Constructing

1. Community based healthcare facilities

2. Medical college

1. Eliminate the Medicaid/Medicare ban

1. health coverage

1. Immigrant adults.

1. grants to improve health care

1. Populations with low health literacy

1. Increasing and diversifying work force of the health care

1. Hiring staffs from different ethnic groups

Key Terms

These key words will be defined to enable the audience fully understand their meanings and how they relate to healthcare policy: diversifying work force, Shaman Americans, Medicaid/Medicare, grants, marginalized group, integrated healthcare system, and limited English proficiency (LEP).

Conclusion

In order to successfully complete this proposal, additional research is necessary to establish how the transition to the proposed law will be done, (Artiga S. 2010). The transition would include the utilization of existing systems and structures to allow for the smooth implementation of the law to avoid any kind of resistance and the negative impact that may arise.

References

Adepoju, Omolola E., Michael A. Preston, and Gilbert Gonzales. (2011)“Health Care Disparities in the Post–Affordable Care Act Era.” American Journal of Public Health 105.Suppl 5 (2015): S665–S667. PMC. Web. 9 Aug. 2017.

Ubri and P, Artiga S. (2010) Disparities in Health and Health Care: Five Key Questions and Answers. The Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation. 2017. Available at: http://www.kff.org/disparities-policy/issue-brief/disparities-in-health-and-health-care-five-key-questions-and-answers/. Accessed August 9, 2017.