NR503 WEEK 1: DISCUSSION - EXERCISE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FROM CURLEY TEXT BOOK

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The preventable differences that “socially disadvantaged populations” have related to injury, violence, the burden of disease, or even the achievement of an ideal level of health are known as heal... th disparities (HD) (CDC, 2018). Several factors define a population (CDC, 2018). These factors include: education, gender, income, disability, race, geographic location, sexual orientation, and/or ethnicity (CDC, 2018). HDs are unjust and are associated with the imbalanced disbursement of resources (CDC, 2018). HD can be caused by a wide range of factors (Curley & Vitale, 2016). These include unequal educational opportunities, threats from the environment, insufficient access to healthcare, poverty level, behavioral and individual factors, housing, access to clean water and fresh food, physical or mental disability, work environment, and socioeconomic status (Curley & Vitale, 2016). [Show More]

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