Pediatric primary care in the United States does not only encompass the primary care physician, but include both, insurers, policy makers, and other health and community providers such as the schools and childcare centers. A healthy developmental stages of the child determines the child's adulthood. So to say, the way a child is cared for has an implication through adulthood. According the Healthy people 2020, health promotion and disease prevention is the ultimate goal for every child in the United States. For this to take place, the children's wellbeing and services should be well coordinated on many levels. For instance; the health care providers must ensure the development of multiple skills outside the traditional medical model and develop
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There are many limitations and inadequacies of available services. It is discovered that about fifty percent of the child developmental problems are undiagnosed until a child reaches school age. More than one million children have no healthcare coverage, and for some, their only source of health care is the emergency unit. Moreover, there are not enough funding for appropriate services such as the day care centers. Therefore, the fragmented services, makes the system more difficult to navigate and operate to meet the health care demands of the pediatric population..
Are there certain pediatric populations that lack access to health-care services? Why?
Yes, there is racial and ethnic disparities, which also contribute to the problem of not meeting to the demand of the pediatric population. According to research conducted by the National Center for Children in Poverty analysis, this research shows that health status and well-being is much worse in poor than in the children born in wealthy families. The Latino and Black children are more than 4 times as likely as are White children to be in poor health (Kuo, et al., 2012).
What are the barriers to children in accessing health-care services in the United States? Why do these barriers …show more content…
When this happens, they tend to delay health care. Also, they cannot afford the finances involved to buy the medications for their children. Some of them have health insurance plan that limit the amount of health care services rendered to them. Legal obstacles is one of the obstacles that is mostly applicable to the low income immigrants. The insurance coverage obtained through Medicaid is not available to this group. Children without health insurance are significantly less likely than children on Medicaid to receive well-child visits and other preventive health care services. Also, the obstacles exist because of lack of health care providers in the rural areas, where the minorities are densely populated. To overcome this barrier in rural areas where children are under served, incentives to physicians should be encouraged, so as to promote practice in those underserved areas. Physician training should be expanded, efforts should be made to produce more primary care physicians interested in practicing in underserved
There are many limitations and inadequacies of available services. It is discovered that about fifty percent of the child developmental problems are undiagnosed until a child reaches school age. More than one million children have no healthcare coverage, and for some, their only source of health care is the emergency unit. Moreover, there are not enough funding for appropriate services such as the day care centers. Therefore, the fragmented services, makes the system more difficult to navigate and operate to meet the health care demands of the pediatric population..
Are there certain pediatric populations that lack access to health-care services? Why?
Yes, there is racial and ethnic disparities, which also contribute to the problem of not meeting to the demand of the pediatric population. According to research conducted by the National Center for Children in Poverty analysis, this research shows that health status and well-being is much worse in poor than in the children born in wealthy families. The Latino and Black children are more than 4 times as likely as are White children to be in poor health (Kuo, et al., 2012).
What are the barriers to children in accessing health-care services in the United States? Why do these barriers …show more content…
When this happens, they tend to delay health care. Also, they cannot afford the finances involved to buy the medications for their children. Some of them have health insurance plan that limit the amount of health care services rendered to them. Legal obstacles is one of the obstacles that is mostly applicable to the low income immigrants. The insurance coverage obtained through Medicaid is not available to this group. Children without health insurance are significantly less likely than children on Medicaid to receive well-child visits and other preventive health care services. Also, the obstacles exist because of lack of health care providers in the rural areas, where the minorities are densely populated. To overcome this barrier in rural areas where children are under served, incentives to physicians should be encouraged, so as to promote practice in those underserved areas. Physician training should be expanded, efforts should be made to produce more primary care physicians interested in practicing in underserved