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For this research study, barriers to health care for Ethiopian women will be in placed of the Ethiopian healthcare framework by which the community provides care for women who lives in rural communities or other community setting. The responsibility of care for the Ethiopian women is assumed by the governmental authority. Healthcare is a fundamental human needs for the Ethiopian people. If care is available, many health epidemics may be reduced. The study is crucial because it may require further information on healthcare barriers, which can be, addressed to the local government, public healthcare providers, and external organizations, specifically the importance of focusing on areas such as primary health needs, awareness for women and reproductive health concerns for women.
Furthermore, it is crucial to the Ethiopian women because it may help them learn more about the importance of accessing care that they need by improving their health status, and it may reduce the oppression they face. Socio-demographic and cultural factors that affect Ethiopian women's health may help them by allowing the women access to care.
Likewise, it is also necessary to the healthcare providers, as a result of improving the delivery of healthcare for the rural women of Ethiopian, raising awareness for the women, lowering communicable diseases transitioning from traditional subsistence farming to market-oriented agriculture and urbanization setting, and prioritizing the availability of medical resources to better improve the lives of women.
Also, this study is significant to the Ethiopian government; it will help them identify specific issues that they can reflect on their healthcare policies. The discovery that will be analogize...
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What causes hunger to exist in Ethiopia? and What effect does it have on the people of Ethiopia? are two big questions regarding the people of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the 8th hungriest country in the world currently. There are many factors contributing to the starvation of the Ethiopian people. Hunger in Ethiopia is mainly caused because of famine; this affects the people greatly in their health but can still be prevented.
The absence of cultural competency in some health care providers, lack of community perspective integration in health care facilities, and low quality health care received by women in developing countries.These are the three most pressing health care concerns that need to be addressed in our ever changing world. The first of the issues I’ll be discussing is the lack of cultural competency amongst health care providers, as well as the shortage of education and training in cultural competency. As we all know and see the United States is a racially and ethnically diverse nation which means our health care providers need to be equipped with the necessary education and training to be able to provide for diverse populations. As an East African
The Social Determinants of Health are certain circumstances that have an effect on the health and overall well being of humans and their own commonalities in terms of financial and societal situations. The reason why it is essential for us to pass beyond considering women’s health and access to health care as individual or biological problems is because women bear unique health needs yet so much health systems are not even acknowledging them. There are situations only females experience that have bad health affects, such as childbirth and pregnancy, although they aren't diseases, physiological and social tactics carry many health jeopardies depend upon health care. Gender based inequalities
There are major diseases that affect men and women all over the world today. The country, that I will be talking about is affected daily by many different deadly diseases such as, lower respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS, measles, whooping cough, malaria, pneumonia and many more. The residents of Africa are suffering from preventable, treatable, and fatal diseases everyday at a higher rate compared to other developed countries. The World Organization (WHO) projects that over the next ten years the continent will experience the largest increase in death rates from cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease, and diabetes.
Brazil lacks the financial resources to achieve health care as a constitutional right to all citizens as is intended. Funding is not distributed equally among the regions. In 2009, Brazil invested US$921.00, versus the total of US$7,960.00 invested in the United States for the same year. (WHO, 2012). In addition to ...
In conclusion, the ultimate significance to this type of work is to improve the quality of healthcare in these extremely impoverished nations. This argument is represented in Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, Monte Leach’s “Ensuring Health Care as a Global Human Right”, and Darshark Sanghavi’s “Is it Cost Effective to Treat the World’s Poor.” The idea that universal healthcare is a human right is argued against in Michael F. Cannon’s “A “Right” to health care?” Cannon claims that it would not work, and fills the holes that the other authors leave in their arguments. All of these articles share the same ultimate goal, and that is to provide every individual with adequate health care, and to not let so many people die from things that could easily have been prevented or treated.
First of all, there are many issues which influence the ethnic inequalities in health whi...
Their culture is very different and many different social determinants of health affect their population. Their ethnocentric beliefs are so different compared to the western culture, not only in natural medicine and healing but also in terms of how evident that trust is a big issue, assimilation, health equity and substance abuse. It is very difficult to have them steer away from their beliefs and accept what a foreigner(western person) is saying to them. Due to all these problems, many health disparities exist in their population, all ranging from cultural beliefs in medicine, dancing, diet, individual behavior, the built environment and social connectedness.
Over the years, the social determinants of health (SDOH) have been receiving more attention due to its importance in determining peoples’ health access, health quality and health outcome. The social determinants of health have been described by various scholars as the situation or environmental condition in which people are born, or where they grow, live and work; unfortunately these conditions have continued to affect and determine people’s ability to access proper care.1-5 In other words, the SDOH continues to consciously and unconsciously influence people’s access to most opportunities in life including access to healthcare services both in developed and developing countries.2 This issues have continue to deteriorate in most developing countries increasing people’s susceptibility to multi-morbidity among different age groups, with a slight increase among the elderly.6
...on, race, and political belief, economic or social condition. Improving the poor health of disadvantaged individuals and reducing health gaps is important but not enough to level up health through socioeconomic groups. The objective of tackling health inequalities can be changed to local needs and priorities of a community allowing wide-ranging partnerships of support to be organised. However it needs to be made clear that what can be done to help improve the life chances and health prospects of individuals living in poverty may not come close to bringing their health prospects closer to the average of the rest of the population or prevent the gap living on throughout the generations. Being clear about what is trying to be overcome and achieved needs upmost importance in the development and delivery of policies that will promote health equality across the population.
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An important area for the development of a country is definitely the health sector, but in countries like Nepal where the Human Development Index(WHO, 2012) is only 0.463, a lot of people do not even receive any health provisions. The ethnic groups such as Dalit and Janajati in Nepal, are much affected by the unequal access and use of state- provided public health resources, facilities and services. In many cases, even among all these, it is the women and children (especially girls) who suffer the most as they are discriminated based on gender, caste and ethnicity. That being said, through this research I will be focusing on the health issues among the women in Nepal and how various factors such as the gender inequality, caste system, and traditional beliefs contribute to affect their health.
According to World Health Organization (1978), primary health care is defined as a universally accessible health care that is socially acceptable, affordable and requires individuals to be more self-reliant with their health care needs. Primary health care has many goals, but the most important is introducing the importance of self-reliance to individuals. The main objective of primary health care is to provide better health for all. In order to accomplish this goal, the world health organization stated five key goals. “The five key goals are: firstly, to reduce exclusion and social health disparities, that is the universal coverage reforms. Secondly, to organize health services based on individuals need and expectation, that is service delivery reforms. Thirdly, to integrate health into all industry sectors, that is public policy reforms. Moving on, the Fourth key goal is leadership reforms and lastlyto increase stakeholder participation”