In summary, there exists a significant body of work on health inequalities in the Andes. However, much of this literature provides somewhat fragmented pieces of a complex whole with respect to the production of health ...

Remote Area Medical, a healthcare nonprofit based in Rockford, Tennessee, attempts to shore up health disparities experienced by rural Americans, "prevent[ing] pain and alleviat[ing] suffering by providing free, quality ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), passed on March 23, 2010, is the most comprehensive U.S. healthcare reform legislature enacted since the passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. The overarching ...

This paper will carefully consider the ways in which the role of mass incarceration perpetuates the afflictions of poverty for former offenders, further applying these conclusions to the unique barriers that arise within ...

Amani Children’s Village serves as an example of the flaws in the charitable aid system in which money flows directly to an organization through donations in the classic NGO format. The difficulties seen in terms of Amani, ...

Following an overview of community health centers, including more information about patients served, costs, and services provided, this study will examine the benefits of and threats to the community health center system, ...

The state of American health is alarming. How do we spend so much money even though a large number of us are in poor health and lack access to proper care? My paper will examine the root of this problem. It is important ...

The portrait of emergency department (ED) use among people experiencing homelessness is a bleak one, worsened by biases, resource unavailability and other barriers to adequate healthcare which vulnerable populations ...

While the securitization of health results in positive short-term outcomes such as resource allocation, this framing neglects individuals’ human rights. Therefore, in order to prioritize the health of all, the security ...

This capstone explored the mechanisms underlying the relationship between racial residential segregation and health disparities for African Americans. This relationship was examined through the analysis of how racial ...