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Population Healthcare in America

   

Added on  2020-04-13

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Running head: POPULATION HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA POPULATION HEALTHCARE IN AMERICAName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

POPULATION HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA1The term population healthcare has replaced patient satisfaction, as this new idea hasemerged out of the epidemic of disastrous diseases such as obesity, hypertension and many more.Population healthcare aims a specific group of community and uses interventions to solve theirhealthcare related problems to obtain specific patient outcomes (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2015).This assignment is going to talk about the Columbian community and will discuss the healthcarerelated problem it is facing. Further, it will comment on whether the healthcare facility workingin that locality, follows the three aspects of population healthcare or not. Finally, the role ofhealthcare facilities and their impact will be discussed. According to the Government data of healthcare of Columbia, within 681,170 population,the primary healthcare problems the entire population is facing are diabetes, Alzheimer’s diseaseand AIDS. One organization ‘Columbia valley community health’ has focused diabetes as theprime health issue and targeted it to focus on three areas of healthcare, namely quality andpatient safety, care-coordination and prevention (Trust for America's Health, 2017). It isimportant for public healthcare facilities to address the ‘population healthcare’ as nowadays, dueto different socio-economic status (SES), maximum population are neglecting healthcare. Thisdisparity is healthcare leads to health complications in people with lower SES and infectionmakes the upper SES people suffer the consequences. To find out the health issues of the community, the first thing that needs to be done isenhancing the communication between healthcare workers and the people of that community.Due to difference in SES and financial status, health deprived people do not approach healthcarefacilities for treatment. Hence, enabled communication between healthcare facilities and thedeprived population can lead them believe in the healthcare system and they start availing thebenefits for their own betterment. Conducting health promotional campaigns in the community,

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