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Health Policy System Assignment

   

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Running Head:IMPACTS OF RACE ON HEALTH POLICY SYSTEM 1Impacts of Race on Health Policy SystemNameInstitutional Affiliation

IMPACTS OF RACE ON HEALTH POLICY SYSTEM 2Impacts of Race on Health Policy SystemIntroductionEveryone is entitled to quality and good health care services from any medical facility.Your cultural background should not deter you from accessing medical facilities and getting therequired treatment. Race can be defined as the grouping of individuals based on their cultural,genetic, physical, social or ancestral traits. Racism is the discrimination, harassment or biases ofone race by another who views themselves as superior to the others. Racism in health care leadsto differences in access to quality healthcare. The race has been one of the major problems inCanada that have led to poor health care and those affected have difficulties in accessing qualityhealth care because of the diverse cultural backgrounds that they are coming from. It is theresponsibility of the government to introduce health policies that are inclusive and consideratefor every Canadian citizen. Good health policy system help in improving health care for everyindividual irrespective of your race and cultural background in health policy system; race is acontributory factor to the success and effectiveness of the system (Tang, & Browne, 2008). Ahealth policy system that involves racism leads to poor quality services, inequality in access tohealth care, dissatisfied patients and increase in a number of patients.Racism has led to an increased number of patients resorting to other alternatives of healthcare like the tradition health care for the various illnesses. This has also lead to the rise ofmortality in patients who are having chronic illnesses and are from the minority communitiesbecause of the discrimination and lack of adequate health care. The introduction of inclusivehealth care policies will help in reducing the mortality rate and improving health care among allCanadian citizens.

IMPACTS OF RACE ON HEALTH POLICY SYSTEM 3Racism in Canada's health care policy systemRacism in Canada has long existed with the majority of the minority group consistingblacks have resettled in Quebec. Racism in Canada has exceeded many other countries, theminority groups have not fully been recognized by the government (Hutchison, levesque,Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). However much the government today is trying to change theperception and reducing the level of discrimination of the minority groups within its territory.The minority groups in Canada have long suffered because of the poor and limited healthfacilities in the regions where the minority groups live. This, however, has led to the rise ofmortality in the minority groups especially those with chronic illness and also maternal mortality.Several causes of health inequities caused by racism are having less access to social resourcessuch as education, inadequate economic resources, poor housing, engaging in health behaviorsthat are risky, exposure to environment hazards, stress caused by racism in an environment onelives in, social traumas such as sexual abuse and spousal abuse, programs such as screeningbeing underutilized and having no trust in the healthcare systems (Prus, Tfaily, & Lin, 2010).The government has the responsibility of playing a major role in reducing racism inCanada by making good policies that does not only favor the "white" people in getting efficienthealth care but instead come up with policies that ensures that access to primary healthcare iseveryone's right irrespective of your race, tribe, color, and cultural background, it should bediversified (Papadopoulos, 2006). Healthcare organizations also have an equal responsibility of ensuring equality in thehealthcare facilities. The healthcare organizations can introduce programs that are culturaldiversity oriented with the aims of training health practitioners about cultural diversity and

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