Public Health of Kansas City

Running head: PUBLIC HEALTH OF KANSAS CITY
PUBLIC HEALTH OF KANSAS CITY
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PUBLIC HEALTH OF KANSAS CITY
Introduction:
Kansas City is the biggest city of the U.S. state of Missouri. Kansas City has its
individual public health facility known as the Kansas City Health Department (KCHD) which
has been working for almost 150 years aiming to protect the population of the city (Loring et
al., 2017). In this assignment, the public health condition, issues and various other aspects
witnessed by the community of Kansas City will be reflected.
Discussion:
As being a part of Kansas community, I have witnessed a lot of knowledge about the
public health issues that the community has been facing since the past 150 years. The city has
been facing various geographical and racial health inequalities. Kansas has been effected by
the health inequalities in accessing quality health care service. This issue has been leading to
high infant death rate, avoidable hospitalization, inferior birth rate of the Hispanics, Asians
and blacks (Bradley et al., 2015). As per my research, I observed that the citizens of Kansas
have been majorly effect by deaths from cancer and heart diseases. The other causes of the
death among them are stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.
After my survey on the community’s health care facility and health issues, few
recommendations came in my account. If these strategies are followed, it can reduce the
death rate and will be helpful in improving the health condition of the Kansas City. In order
to improve the health condition of the in people, proper knowledge and educations are
required to provide to the individuals, as many cases of lacking proper health care is due to
lack of information about the facilities and knowledge about the disease or health issues. next
intervention should be taken by the government to take a step for removing discrimination
that are faced by the people of Kansas in the healthcare facilities (Bradley et al., 2015). There
are many areas I spotted in the city where the health resource dose not reach in a proper way,