Poverty and health disparities: lessons and solutions for health care providers

Marlene Wilken; Beth Furlong

Poverty and health disparities: lessons and solutions for health care providers

Marlene Wilken, Beth Furlong

Interdisciplinary Studies

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Abstract

Health care disparities exist in the United States. Social inequalities contributing to disparities in health care include poverty, socioeconomic status, being uninsured, one's life course, and being unemployed. Each social inequality has an effect on health status and produces a gradient of poor health and mortality that spans all socioeconomic strata. Selected policies implemented in the United States have resulted in perpetuating health care disparities and negative health outcomes for certain populations. Health care professionals are in a strategic position to implement pragmatic strategies for eliminating some health disparities. Strategies discussed include changes at the following levels: personal, worksite, professional association, community, and civic.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Social Inequalities, Health and Health Care Delivery
Pages	201-217
Number of pages	17
State	Published - Dec 1 2002

Publication series

Name	Research in the Sociology of Health Care
Volume	20
ISSN (Print)	0275-4959

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Sociology and Political Science
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Nursing (miscellaneous)

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