Health Care Systems Journal of Nursing
Breaking Barriers: Addressing Transportation Challenges and Healthcare Access for Expectant Mothers in Impoverished Communities
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Access to healthcare is a critical component of health equity, yet impoverished and rural communities face significant barriers, particularly due to a lack of reliable transportation. This work explores how transportation challenges disproportionately affect access to prenatal care for pregnant women, contributing to adverse maternal and neonatal health outcomes. Utilizing insights from various studies, this work highlights the role of social determinants of health, as defined by Healthy People 2030, in shaping healthcare accessibility and quality. Transportation barriers, tied closely to economic stability, often lead to missed appointments and untreated complications, exacerbating global healthcare burdens. Research shows that inadequate prenatal care increases risks such as preterm births and neonatal complications, disproportionately impacting low-income and marginalized populations. This issue calls for systemic interventions, including improved transportation infrastructure and affordable healthcare policies. Registered nurses play a pivotal role in addressing these disparities by advocating for patients and raising awareness about the importance of healthcare access as a social determinant. Ultimately, ensuring equitable healthcare access benefits not only women but also society as a whole by fostering healthier populations and reducing strain on healthcare systems worldwide.
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Insuring the Uninsured: Hispanic Communities
Tags: Affordable Care Act Community Health Nursing Health Care Reform health care systems healthcare system Hispanic Community insurance Policy Commentary
Despite the improved enrollment from 2014, there are still a percentage of the population that remain without insurance. The Hispanic population continues to be the largest population that have not enrolled and recent limited data indicates a variety of reasons. The biggest promoters of health care are the individuals that provide the service. In order to promote enrollment, we need to use health care providers and nurses to be a resource, the educators and the “sellers” of Affordable Health Care.
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Ubiquitous Health: An Emerging Technology in Todays World
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A look into the future and the use of technology to implement ubiquitous health systems.
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Funding Health Care as a Basic Human Right
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The United States of America is a nation known and heralded worldwide for its democracy, freedom, and wealth. Through our commerce, we have become a prosperous nation. Through our commonalities we stand united. Through our shared citizenship, we establish our community. Through our voices, we are heard. So why is it, our nation has been divided against the idea of health care being funded as a basic human right? U.S. Senator, Ted Kennedy, once said,
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