HLTH-2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chronic Condition, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomics
2 May 2019
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Certain populations in the us face greater challenges in accessing timely and needed health care services. They are at risk for poor, physical, psychological, and or social health. Most uninsured population compromise young workers and lack of coverage is present in. South & west regions of us, and among individuals who lack a college degree. Unequal social, economic, health, and geographic conditions. Vulnerability model: an integrated approach to studying vulnerability. Approach looks at individual and ecological risk, and total population, not just traits. Health care is the likelihood you will experience vulnerability. In health care, vulnerability is the likelihood of experiencing poor health or illness. Poor health is compounded with problems along multiple dimensions. Vulnerability represents the interaction effects of multiple factors over which many do not have control. Negative vulnerability traits can lead to more vulnerability. Multiple vulnerable traits may lead to cumulative vulnerability that is additive or multiplicative. Vulnerability is determined by a convergence of 3 main levels:
