Cancer Outcomes in Hispanics/Latinos Discussion
Cancer Outcomes in Hispanics/Latinos Discussion
There are many indicators that define healthy people. Pick one indicator and discuss ways in which you can promote that healthy indicator. Review the Health People 2020 “Topics and Objectives” resource located in the study materials and identify at least one community resource to help you promote the indicator of the patient population selected in your essay on assessing patient population wellness.
Healthy people 2020 has a goal of promoting access to healthcare in all communities (Access to Health Services, n.d.). This provides a goal for healthcare providers to increase all population’s access to healthcare regardelss of the obstacles or issues that may present itself (Access to Health Services, n.d.).
In my essay, I chose the Hispanic population. In the Hispanic population, there is a lack of access to healthcare due to lack of insurance which is a result of the cultural bias of preferring internal religious treatment from healers rather than external healthcare treatments (Yanez et al., 2016). Another restriction is that Hispanic culture is usually patriarchial, and the leader of the close-knit family usually chooses to look inwards to healers and religious ceremonies as illness is viewed as punishment from God for recent immoral acts (Yanez et al., 2016). These biases combine to create a uniqe issue with a unique solution to promote healthcare access to the Hispanic population.
The unique solution is to come up with health programs and health promotion community resources that target the patriarchial leadership of the Hispanic community (O’Connor et al., 2020). The program that was created is called Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids, which targets Hispanic men who are the leaders of their family, and provides them with information that explains health promotion and access to healthcare (O’Connor et al., 2020). In the course of the program, father-child bonding increased, and requested information regarding health promotion also was found to increase as well (O’Connor et al., 2020). The program’s primary goal of obtaining acceptance, relevance, and impact of the Hispanic community was ultimately obtained as these families began to adapt a healthy lifestyle and began to seek out healthcare from healthcare specialists regarding current disease proceeses and health promotion and prevention (O’Connor et al., 2020).
In my community, we can adapt this same approach, and as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, it would be my responsibility to meet with the families and help explain the goals of the program regarding health promotion and direct it towards the male leadership in hope of getting the same response. I think it will be easier to implement the program if there was a provider that led the discussions along with the assistance of bilingual interpeters in order to adequately convey information back and forth.
References:
Access to Health Services. (n.d.). Retrieved September 03, 2020, from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/Access-to-Health-Services
O’Connor, T. M., Perez, O., Beltran, A., Colón García, I., Arredondo, E., Parra Cardona, R., Cabrera, N., Thompson, D., Baranowski, T., & Morgan, P. J. (2020). Cultural adaptation of “Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids” for Hispanic families: applying the ecological validity model. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity, 17(1), 1–18. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1186/s12966-020-00949-0
Yanez, B., McGinty, H. L., Buitrago, D., Ramirez, A. G., & Penedo, F. J. (2016). Cancer Outcomes in Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: An integrative review and conceptual model of determinants of health. Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 4(2), 114–129. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1037/lat0000055
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