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Poverty and Health - World Bank Group

(2 days ago) WEBPoverty and Health. Context. Poverty is a major cause of ill health and a barrier to accessing health care when needed. This relationship is financial: the poor cannot afford to purchase those things that are needed for …

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/health/brief/poverty-health

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It’s Harder for People Living in Poverty to Get Health Care

(1 days ago) WEBCORINNE LEWIS: So, the Medicaid program is the main provider of insurance for low-income people. So for people that are at 138 percent of the federal poverty level — so what that actually translates to …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/podcast/2019/apr/its-harder-people-living-poverty-get-health-care

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Limited Access: Poverty and Barriers to Accessible Health …

(1 days ago) WEBPoverty also exacerbates health disparities for patients with limited English proficiency who have both cultural and financial barriers when accessing care. 3. Poverty is directly correlated with poor health …

https://nationalhealthcouncil.org/blog/limited-access-poverty-and-barriers-to-accessible-health-care/

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Health care for the poor: For whom, what care, and …

(Just Now) WEBHealth care assistance for the poor, past and present A brief history of major efforts to provide health care to the poor since 1900 is shown in the box on this page.3 Two themes are apparent when examining the last century of health care assistance for the poor. First, there has been a preference for state rather than federal control of how health

https://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc262l.pdf

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Health, Income, & Poverty: Where We Are & What Could …

(Just Now) WEBA 2008 report found that $1.00 in SNAP expenditures generates $1.73 in economic activity and that SNAP is among the most effective economic stimulus programs. Another study found that

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20180817.901935/

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Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

(5 days ago) WEBJournal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (JHCPU) is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on contemporary health care issues of medically underserved communities.JHCPU addresses such diverse areas as …

https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal-health-care-poor-and-underserved

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Addressing the Health Needs of the Uninsured: One …

(3 days ago) WEBProviding high-quality health care to poor and uninsured individuals has been a challenge to the US health care system for decades. Often, patients do not seek care until they are in a crisis, or they seek care at a health care system while not addressing their primary care needs. Charity Navigator 5 years in a row, with 91.87% …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089597/

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Improving health care quality in resource-poor countries

(5 days ago) WEBThe commission will be publishing its findings later this year. Kruk’s quest to improve health care quality has taken her to Ethiopia, India, Liberia, Tanzania, and other countries. She began her public health career as a family medicine physician, running a regional hospital in Geraldton, an old mining town in northern Ontario.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/improving-health-care-quality-in-resource-poor-countries/

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Advancing Health Equity, Eliminating Health Disparities, …

(7 days ago) WEBUnmet health-related social support needs among people being served by health care systems can contribute to high patient morbidity and poor population health (30,31). However, little is known about the overall impact of screening and referral programs that address unmet health-related social needs on outcomes related to experience of care

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0264.htm

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Driving innovative health care solutions for underserved …

(Just Now) WEBResearchers and health care providers have found that lack of access to healthy food, adequate housing, transportation, and education account for 40% of what contributes to poor health within vulnerable populations. Addressing these social determinants of health can lead to better health outcomes in local communities and …

https://www.aamc.org/news/driving-innovative-health-care-solutions-underserved-populations

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Poverty and Health - The Family Medicine Perspective (Position …

(9 days ago) WEBThese findings indicate that low-income status does not have to determine poor health or poor care experience. relinquish the feeling of helplessness when providing medical care to families

https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/poverty-health.html

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Dangers of poor quality health care revealed ‘in all countries’: …

(4 days ago) WEBIn a new report on the subject, the World Health Organization and partners cited problems with delivering quality health care across all Member States.. The finding is important because, although nations have committed to providing universal health coverage by 2030, the outcome “would still be poor” without the delivery of effective …

https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/07/1013942

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Learning to Care for the Underserved: Making the Most of …

(9 days ago) WEBEach physician as an obligation to share in providing care to the indigent…. All physicians should work to ensure that the needs of the poor in their communities are met. Caring for the poor should become a normal part of …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/learning-care-underserved-making-most-opportunities-medical-school/2011-08

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Public Benefits: Easing Poverty and Ensuring Medical Coverage

(Just Now) WEBMeans-tested programs play a large role in reducing the extent and severity of poverty and providing health care to low-income Americans. Some 11 million low-income Americans are lifted above the poverty line by means-tested benefits, and more than 55 million receive health insurance from the means-tested medical programs, …

https://www.cbpp.org/research/public-benefits-easing-poverty-and-ensuring-medical-coverage

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Low quality healthcare is increasing the burden of illness and …

(5 days ago) WEBThe report also highlights that sickness associated with poor quality health care imposes additional expenditure on families and health systems. Health care workers in seven low- and middle-income African countries were only able to make accurate diagnoses one third to three quarters of the time, and clinical guidelines for common

https://www.who.int/news/item/05-07-2018-low-quality-healthcare-is-increasing-the-burden-of-illness-and-health-costs-globally

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Let’s Care for Those in Need—Today: Collaborating to Solve the

(3 days ago) WEBThere are heroes today in safety-net health care organizations throughout the country providing a variety of services to individuals in need of medical care. The National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC) Web site 4 provides the location and other information for these clinics, as well as a primer on how to start a clinic if

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089592/

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Addressing the Health Needs of the Uninsured: One Community's …

(1 days ago) WEBAbstract. Introduction: Providing high-quality health care to poor and uninsured individuals has been a challenge to the US health care system for decades. Often, patients do not seek care until they are in a crisis, or they seek care at a health care system while not addressing their primary care needs. Objective: To report on a community that

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32240086/

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Bringing health care to the underserved and vulnerable

(5 days ago) WEBHenry Young wants to make sure that all people—including the vulnerable and underserved—have access to the country’s immense medical resources. As the COVID-19 pandemic has graphically illustrated, vast disparities still permeate the U.S. health care system. Though the level of discovery, invention and innovation in our …

https://research.uga.edu/news/bringing-health-care-to-the-underserved-and-vulnerable/

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Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S.: 2020

(7 days ago) WEBOf the subtypes of health insurance, employment-based insurance was the most common subtype, covering 54.4% of the population for some or all of the calendar year. Between 2018 and 2020, the rate of private health insurance coverage decreased by 0.8 percentage points to 66.5%, driven by a 0.7 percentage-point decline in employment-based

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/income-poverty-health-insurance-coverage.html

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Health disparities and underserved populations: a potential …

(3 days ago) WEBThe health-care system in the United States is burdened with disparities associated with a panoply of factors including complex interactions between race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (), geographic access to care (), and health insurance status (3–7).For instance, insurance status is one of the strongest predictors of cancer …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408316/

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For Providing Health Care to Poor Adults, Medicaid Beats …

(Just Now) WEBThe paper also describes how almost immediately after health reform’s major coverage provisions took effect in 2014, hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid reported (1) higher-than-expected revenues and (2) a shift to providing more care to patients with Medicaid coverage and less to uninsured patients.

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/for-providing-health-care-to-poor-adults-medicaid-beats-uncompensated-care

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The Role of Nurses in Improving Health Care Access and Quality

(5 days ago) WEBHealth care equity focuses on ensuring that everyone has access to high-quality health care. As shown in the Social Determinants of Health and Social Needs Model of Castrucci and Auerbach (2019) (see Chapter 2), health care is a downstream determinant of health, but disparities in health care access and quality can widen and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK573910/

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