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Assignment - Public Health

Background and data - Health care access and how it contributed to health disparity in Southeast DC ward 7-8 4parag.

Tip: look at dchealthmatters, talk poverty Washington city paper, 2018 Provident hospital Northeast DC closing 2018 and plan to change it to urgent care 2017-2019 United medical center /clinic (UMC) Southeast DC ward (7&8) partially close. Voted for permanent closure in 2023. Check Elizabeth hospital reduce services Most reason for discharge and readmit in ward 7-8 hospital is for mental health and heart disease Ward 8 has the highest homicide rate Ward 8 has the highest infectious disease Ward 7 &8 highest substance abuse Ward 7&8 social economic distress Can you conclude all this as gentrification? 3 hospitals are closing in one side of the town Conceptual framework health disparities 3-4 paragraph?

Health Care services and health disparities in a specified location describing the problem with intervention 1-2 page Unequal assess when compare southeast dc to all other part of dc Intervention: I suggest increase to PCP outside the hospital Intervention 2: I think the hospital can increase their network of doctor to have hours PCP at outpatient visit. Problem: despite the fact that DC has the best health insurance coverage almost 96% have insurance in DC, health disparity continue to persist in which we believe health care access is the main problem. Analyze the challenges associated with public health practice 1 page Policy, regulations, lack of education APA format Public health source such as APA, scholarly sources, secondary sources and can back up with primary sources. Newspapers ok look Feel free to add ideas as long as you can back it up with scholarly sources.

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