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Essay / Research Paper - 1201
IntroductionThis research paper will be based on race and ethnicity. This article will further analyze the impact of race and ethnicity on the quality of health care received by individuals of a particular race and ethnicity. The study will also go so far as to attempt to determine what some of the factors influence the difference in quality of health care received by different racial and ethnic groups. This study also aims to test the hypothesis that the quality of health care received by individuals is influenced by racial and ethnic discrimination on the part of health care providers. MethodologyFor this research paper, online secondary resources were used to study the impact of race and ethnicity on health care quality. health care received by individuals. These secondary sources of information included four online research articles from journals as well as an online book. All of these sources were found using the Alma Jordan Library and UWI St. Augustine online databases and written by highly qualified authors, making them highly credible sources. The UWI database was useful as it provided a direct source of articles based on the topic of race and ethnicity that could be used for this research paper. However, it took time to sift through so many articles to narrow the broad topic of race and ethnicity to the topic of research on the impact of race and ethnicity on quality of care health benefits received by individuals of a particular race and ethnicity. . However, information based on Trinidad or the broader Caribbean regarding the relationship between health care and race and ethnicity was found using the online database, but rather from sources based on the North American country....... middle of paper.... According to Kronenfeld (2011), health services are restricted to individuals based on their race and ethnicity, this which, as Kronenfeld (2011) suggests, is not necessarily driven by biology but by artificial constructs. Many factors contribute to this disparity, such as discrimination and whether or not these individuals have disabilities. the racial or ethnic majority or minority. Some recommendations to reduce this disparity, suggested by Kronenfeld (2011), are: (1) Greater health education. (2) Accessibility to alternative medicine modalities. (3) Better education of health providers about different lifestyles. (4) More and better health care coverage where racial and ethnic minorities reside. (5) Disaggregated data to highlight hidden inequalities in (6) Greater need to assess patients' health beliefs when developing a treatment plan/intervention.(7) More funding for palliative care.