Inadequacy Of Access To Care

Improving access to care is imperative to seeing healthcare costs decrease. The cost that could be saved with increased patient access could be as high as $5.2 million (Hamlin, 2015). Access to care affects many aspects of healthcare that are not obvious. For example, patient experience, outcomes, and compliance are all better because of increased access to care.

One of the biggest contributors for poor healthcare is the stigma against mental health. This stigma allows healthcare providers to view those with a mental illness as having low relevance, thus creating disinclination towards providing adequate resources and/or care. This negative stance, based on misinformation and prejudice creates those that have a mental illness to lose their self confidence. Because of this loss, people with mental illness decide not to contribute to their health or livelihood. In the past fifty years, many advances have been made in mental healthcare. However, with the attached stigma, many people choose to not seek out treatment.

Health care has been a debate for several years. Costa Rica’s is a developing country however, they provide health insurance nationwide to all their citizens and legal residents. This form of insurance is designed to provide monetary security in case there is serious illness or accident. Individuals, who do not have health insurance can be exposed to situations in which they can run into deep debt. Having a health insurance can protect individuals from high costs. I am focusing this essay on the major finances of Costa Rica, their system’s providers of care, regulatory agencies and the advantages and disadvantages in their system. Having insurance is a protecting individuals from high medical bills.

One in five American adults have experienced a mental health issue, and one in twenty-five Americans have lived with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also states studies show that individuals with mental health problems get better and may even recover completely, where they can continue living life healthily, with the help of treatments, services, and community systems. I, myself am one of the twenty-five.

In today’s society there is a greater awareness of mental illnesses. With this greater awareness one might assume that there would be a substantial increase in government involvement or funding in the area of mental illness treatment. Unfortunately this isn’t the case in the U.S. today. There are hundreds of thousands of people with mental illness that go untreated. These potential patients go untreated for many reasons. These reasons are discussed in the Time article “Mental Health Reform: What Would it Really Take.

The world is not perfect. This is the phrase used by almost all humans because not all humans are perfect. These imperfections may include war, poverty, hunger, and much more. One of the world’s problems and at least in this country deals with women’s health. Health care is one of the imperfections here in the United States. Health care in the United States has been in hot topic both in past and recent years. Access and having adequate health care can be a real struggle for women and other social groups in this nation. There are different types of factors in which effect how certain people experience this type of low quality and inadequate health care.

Lack of access to mental health care and treatment is one of the top ten reasons that many mental health conditions go untreated. Many private and group health insurance plans only include minimal mental health care coverage or do not incorporate mental health care coverage at all. Over half of adult citizens of the United States of America, who possess a mental illness, do not obtain mental health care treatment. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one out of every five adults in America have endured their own mental health difficulty, and one out of every twenty-five American adults suffer from a severe mental illness, such as major depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder. (Top 5 Barriers to Mental Healthcare Access, Social Solutions.com, 2017)

Over forty million Americans suffer from a mental health condition; and, unfortunately, fifty six percent do not receive any treatment at all. “Mental illnesses are health conditions involving changes in thinking, emotion and behavior”(Psychiatry.org). People live with their conditions even though their quality of life and personal relationships may be negatively affected. When one lives in a state of denial about having a mental illness, they are cheating themselves out of living life to their fullest potential and will achieve true freedom only when they face the illness head on and seek recovery.

Access to mental health care is not as good as than other forms of medical services. Some Americans have reduced access to mental health care amenities because they are living in a countryside setting. Others cannot get to treatment for the reason of shortage of transportation or vast work and household tasks. In some areas, when a

Poverty is a word that slips nicely off the tongue but for many lack definition. Poverty is a state of deprivation of the fundamental human necessities including the provision of adequate food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. Poverty is the root cause of high rates of child morbidity and mortality. Poverty has and always will be detrimental to the world if action is not taken. Albeit, action having been taken, these actions have never truly touched the public consensus on an emotional and psychological level. As a result, millions are still suffering from an environment that damages their well being mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Some things you can fix, others you simply cannot and sadly, the damages of poverty (once done) you cannot. It hampers their very survival

Changes in access to health care across different populations are the chief reason for current disparities in health care provision. These changes occur for several reasons, and some of the main factors that contribute to the problem in the United States are: Lack of health insurance – Several racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and other minority groups lack adequate health insurance coverage in comparison with people who can afford healthcare insurance. The majority of these individuals are likely to put off health care or go without the necessary healthcare and medication that is needed. Lack of financial resources – Lack of accessibility to funding is a barrier to health care for a lot of people living in the United States

Mrs. Holly Stuart, LCSW is currently the Director of the housing program at Bridging Access to Care. Bridging Access to Care (BAC) is a nonprofit, multi-service community-based organization. BAC provides comprehensive clinical treatment, evidence-based prevention education, harm reduction, care coordination, and mental health services in a trauma informed/sensitive environment for individuals in at-risk communities in New York City. Mrs. Stuart and I are currently employed at BAC where she has worked for the past three years. In her current role, she supervises a staff of twenty and oversees six different housing programs which are geared towards the homeless and marginally-housed people living with HIV/AIDS and individuals with

Access to health care is an important aspect of health and development in general. According to the WHO, access to healthcare is an important measure for the performance of a well-functioning health system and economic development33. It constitutes the defining element of primary health care, of the 1978 Alma Ata declaration30(in the quote below), the universal coverage in 201231 and sustainable development agenda in 201525.

In the latest study, only 38 percent to 40 percent of those who indicated mental health disorders were interested in getting help, and 23 to 40 percent reported seeing someone for help. They cited concerns about how they would be seen by peers and potential damage to their careers

Adequate provision of health services in low and middle-income countries poses a considerable challenge to governments of the same. Global health policy is currently shifting from centering around older top-down and vertical disease programmes, to more horizontally integrated programmes that are re-focusing on Primary Health Care. ‘Community participation’ is a popular concept, where involvement of the community is considered one of the “foundational principles “ of Primary health care (Bath and Wakerman, 2013). Thus, it is important to understand whether and how communities can successfully participate in determining how health services are delivered at the local level.