Impacts of Race on Health Policy System Assignment
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Running Head:IMPACTS OF RACE ON HEALTH POLICY SYSTEM Impacts of Race on Health Policy SystemNameInstitutional Affiliation
1IMPACTS OF RACE ON HEALTH POLICY SYSTEM Impacts 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 the required 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 of one race by another who views themselves as superior to the others. Racism in health care leads to differences in access to quality healthcare. The race has been one of the major problems in Canada that have led to poor health care and those affected have difficulties in accessing quality health care because of the diverse cultural backgrounds that they are coming from (Betancourt et al., 2016). It is the responsibility of the government to introduce health policies that are inclusive and considerate for every Canadian citizen. Good health policy system help in improving health care for every individual irrespectiveof your race and cultural background in health policy system; race is a contributory factor to the success and effectiveness of the system (Tang, & Browne, 2008). A health policy system that involves racism leads to poor quality services, inequality in access to health 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 of mortality in patients who are having chronic illnesses and are from the minority communities because of the discrimination and lack of adequate health care. The introduction of inclusive
2IMPACTS OF RACE ON HEALTH POLICY SYSTEM health care policies will help in reducing the mortality rate and improving health care among all Canadian citizens. Racism in Canada's health care policy systemThe negative beliefs about race and ethinicity are deeply ingrained in the culture of Canada. This popular culture is often associated with devaluing the backs and other non-white residents of Canada. Several research studies have provided evidence that suggests televisions play an important role in establishing this culture of racism. Television shows most often portray black people in a negative way and this has been linked to high levels of racial prejudice. On the other hand, widely read newspapers and books frequently pair the word “black” with words like poor, lazy, violent, and dangerous. While the word white is often linked to other words such as, progressive, wealthy, educated and successful. These negative messages are adopted by the people unconsciously and they start developing a bias that results in discrimination against the black people and leads to racial inequality. Healthcare professionals, clinicians and administrators of the health policy system are no exception (Alimezelli et al., 2014). Racism in Canada has long existed with the majority of the minority group consisting blacks have resettled in Quebec. Racism in Canada has exceeded many other countries, the minority groups have not fully been recognized by the government(Hutchison, levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). However much the government today is trying to change the perception and reducing the level of discrimination of the minority groups within its territory. Results from previous studies have reported that biased treatment recommendations exist in the healthcare facilities for black patients, and this has been linked to greater amount of implicit bias among physicians and clinicians.
3IMPACTS OF RACE ON HEALTH POLICY SYSTEM This often leads to poor quality of communication between the healthcare professionals and their clients and results in patient dissatisfaction. The patients who face racial and ethnic discrimination in hospital settings often give low ratings to the quality of care they received and their poor encounters with the doctors. The minority groups in Canada have long suffered because of the poor and limited health facilities in the regions where the minority groups live. This, however, has led to the rise of mortality 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 resources such as education, inadequate economic resources, poor housing, engaging in health behaviors that are risky, exposure to environment hazards, stress caused by racism in an environment one lives in, social traumas such as sexual abuse and spousal abuse, programs such as screening being underutilized and having no trust in the healthcare systems (Prus, Tfaily, & Lin, 2010). Living in poor neighbourhoods increases the exposure to toxic chemicals and restricts access to healthy foods (Beiser & Hou, 2014). This increases the chances of adverse health outcomes among the minorities. Evidences suggest that significant disparities exist in the health outcomes of the racialized people owing to the fact that they do not get equal access to medical care facilities, such as, pediatric wards and veteran’s hospitals, when compared to the majority ofwhite people (Kim et al., 2013). Therefore, practice of racism in healthcare institutions, bias among caregivers, stereotyping attitude and stigma are the major contributing factors to the incidence of racial inequalities in the healthcares system (Dovidio et al., 2017).
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