Homelessness and Healthcare: Analyzing Barriers and Social Factors

This essay examines the significant barriers to health and healthcare encountered by the homeless population, focusing on environmental factors and social determinants of health. It highlights that individuals with mental illness are more prone to substance use disorders and chronic pain, which increases the risk of long-term medical conditions. Social determinants, including economic policies, social norms, and political systems, heavily influence health equities. Factors like income, job security, food insecurity, and housing greatly affect health outcomes, accounting for a substantial percentage of health determinants. The essay also addresses barriers within healthcare organizations, such as limited appointment availability and geographic location challenges in rural areas, impacting access to healthcare services. The essay concludes by emphasizing the need to reduce health inequities by improving fundamental aspects of health.

Homelessness

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Homelessness...................................................................................................................................3
Analyse common barriers to health and health care experienced by the disadvantaged
population group including environmental factors and social determinants...............................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

Homelessness
Analyse common barriers to health and health care experienced by the disadvantaged population
group including environmental factors and social determinants.
People with mental illness are twice in order to have substance use disorder compared to
general population as well as their 20% of people with mental illness that can be occur substance
using disorder such as drug addiction. There are some of the social determinants of health are
non-medical factors which are influencing health outcomes. This is depending on the grow, born,
age, work and live on the basis of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life Alcaraz
& Wender, (2020). There is more than chronic pain which can be depend on experience and
moods disorder on the other hand it can be related to higher risk of developing a long term
medical condition. Mental illness impact on the basis of comparison of general population as
well as there are more than 20% people have mental illness that can be occur substance use
disorder. Those who have schizophrenia with increase as 50%.
some of the factors which are necessary to consider in the economic policies such as
development agenda, social norms, social policy and political system that can impact on health
equities in context to avoidable and unfair differences in health status between countries. All the
levels of health income and illness follow social gradients and lower the social economic
position. Some of the social determinants are rated to income and social protection,
unemployment and job insecurity, food insecurity, housing and basic amenities. On the basis of
health care and lifestyle choice that can be influencing health. Such as it has been suggested that
SDH account because 30-55% related to health outcomes. It can be helpful for reducing
fundamentals that can be improving health that can be reducing longstanding inequities in health
Hill-Briggs & Haire-Joshu, (2021).
More than young people 15 to 24 more than experience mental illness that affect the disorder.
More than 39% of high school students indicate that they are at a serious level of psychological
distress which affects the depression and anxiety that can impact a serious level of issue. Also, in
women there are high levels of symptoms on the basis of mental and physical health. Long term
physical health can be impacted by disorder that can be impacted by high risk for developing
long term medical conditions.

some of the common barriers which impact patient health in healthcare organisation such as
limited appointment availability impact typical set of office R of visit of patient due to different
culture of parent or adulthood also in this process patient are supposed to want to continue in
office hours and then ready to visit to Dr apart from the busy schedule. Addition to this due to
geographic location in the rural area there are more than 57 million people are facing challenges
due to high range of living from healthcare organization this is one of the common area that
faced by people as well as it came opting from rural health information hub that is related to
insufficient resources such as transportation and health care service Butkus and Public Policy
Committee of the American College of Physicians*. (2020).
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
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Hill-Briggs, F. & Haire-Joshu, D. (2021). Social determinants of health and diabetes: a scientific
review. Diabetes care, 44(1), 258-279.
Butkus, R. and Public Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians*. (2020).
Envisioning a better US health care system for all: reducing barriers to care and
addressing social determinants of health. Annals of Internal
Medicine, 172(2_Supplement), S50-S59.
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