Resources and Relevance
1."The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Access to Insurance and Healthcare." PubMed Central, U.S. National Library of Medicine, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5886019/.
Summary: The article examines how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has improved access to health insurance for Americans, with nearly 20 million previously uninsured people obtaining health insurance. It explores the ACA's impact on the coverage population, accessibility, utilization, and health outcomes, focusing especially on lower income populations.
Source Details: The resources from the from the link provides a good understanding of the of the healthcare access in the United States. It especially focuses on the nine key components including health and dental insurance, timely access to care, and patient perception of need. The report also reveals both the improvements and constant inconsistencies, such as income, geography, an unissued rated but continuing gap by race. The website shows gives very detailed stats and trends as well as explanations. Insurance coverage, the usual sources of care, and how provider availability can affect health outcomes. The resources also include data tools and government action to further research as well as policy planning
Relevance to the project: Using this website to create my own website helps ensure reliability, understandable information on healthcare inconsistency and access, as well as giving up to date information. The information that ill be using to give to users will give better insight with the use of graphics, interactive visualizations, or a very clean and easily navigable dashboard. Using the finding and statistics will help make my users have a sense of understanding as well as finding reliability in my website. I would also use it to educate myself by seeing how their website is set up or learning something new to tell my users about to prevent any further confusion on the topic of affordable healthcare.
2. “Access to Healthcare and Disparities in Access.” NCBI Bookshelf, National Center for Biotechnology Information, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578537/.
Summary: This website explains and goes into depth about the American access to healthcare, diving into topics such as improvements that can be made. These topics range from race, income, insurance status, and geography. The data it uses comes from the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report. They may have used this source to help trach trends, current barriers, and the main topic I’ll be covering which is the impact of insurance coverage and how it can impact health outcomes.
Details about the Source: This resource is like the first as it’s the same website just different parts as this one cover insurance status, the usual sources of care, and timely care. It also covers the nine key measures with emphasis on racial minorities and how race may play a role in the health insurance or coverage you may receive. Also puts emphasis on income groups as well. It uses recent data from reliable sources pulling from some of the most respected groups such as the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report. They go in depth how denial within healthcare or unproper care due to the reasons I listed above can lead to a decrease in overall health by chronic disease or terrible preventive care. Although coming from the same website as the first, I do think this one dives a little deeper in certain issues that were addressed from the first source given.
Relevance to Project: The knowledge given from this can be used in my project. Coming from the same website as the first obviously the template would be similar so there’d be no need to use that as a use. Given the more in-depth answers however can be used to allow users to find reliability in the info I’ll be giving. Seeing minorities are the usual group who may experience trouble in the healthcare insurance field, I thought specifying on this topic would be perfect assuming the main target audience I’d like to reach would be majority minority allowing them to connect more to the information given. It also can help show the importance of my website as it will circle around the idea of a nonprofit as It’d be funded through donations.
3. "The Politics of Health Care and the 2024 Election." KFF, Kaiser Family Foundation, https://www.kff.org/health-policy-101-the-politics-of-health-care-and-the-2024-election/.
Summary: This article goes in how US politics can determine health policies. The focus was the 2024 election as said in the title going around the two main candidates in Trump and Biden. It shows how the impact of political control from many things such as healthcare legislation, the affordability, as well as the major programs that may impact the future such as the Affordable Care Act.
Source Information: The article dives deep into the connection between politics and the healthy policies under the context of the 2024 election. Shows how the control on the White House and Congress oversees determining the direction of the health policy as well explaining how a divided government leads to something called legislative gridlock. It gives the differences in how Trump and Biden wanted to go about the health policy. The example it uses is how Trump wanted to repeal the ACA as Biden wanted to expand it. The main topics pointed out were the rarity of sweeping reforms, the political difficulty of reduced benefits that were already established, as well as pointing out the influence that industry stockholders have. It also helps give insight on voting priorities and to use your candidates’ insights for your hopes for the outlook of healthcare.
Relevance for Project: This resource is very relevant for my topic which will help when it comes to creating my website which focuses on health policy. Having additional information about how elections can US healthcare debates can result in a change in the current healthcare. Its up-to-date information allows for my website to have a great deal of respect and reliability as the information isn’t outdated or based on possibilities. I can especially use this source as an informational to give facts and give extra information to allow the user to not only learn but also allow them to get an understanding of where I stand on this healthcare topic. The way the context is detailed and explained can be used for a wide range of people from the regular public, academic audiences, or even people with little to no information on the topic.
4. "What is a Community Health Center? Understanding the Role in Providing Accessible Healthcare." Community Health Centers of Florida, https://www.chcfl.org/what-is-a-community-health-center-understanding-the-role-in-providing-accessible-healthcare/.
Summary: The CHCFL resource helps explains the important role of community health centers as the provide accessible healthcare. It especially highlights the focus on the minority groups going in depth how health is over looked, especially in the category of mental health. The main topics talked about in this resource was mainly to put emphasis on promoting health, mentally and physically, as well as breaking down barriers within minority communities.
Details about the Source: This source helps give a good overview on what community health centers are and how important their role is in the healthcare system. The importance they have in undeserved communities and groups is very detrimental especially in the overlooked topic of mental health. Putting an emphasis on patient centered care, health education, and ways to outreach to these people/groups in need is exactly what I want my website to be based around as well as what I stand for inn my beliefs and ideology. The way this website gives information and what it seems to base their beliefs around would be a good website to add to my resource page as well as use information given in my website to spared, to my users.
Relevance to Project: This website is high relevant on the topic of building a website focused on healthcare access and being informative on the topic of healthcare. Its focus on mental and minority community wellness is a emphasis I’d like to address on my website which I didn’t make note of before, as well as the importance of community health centers. This website in itself just helped broaden my approach in how I’d like to write my website about, and the information given in it as well. Using this resource will help reflect the current best practices as well as the vital impact of health centers for the audience I’d like to target.
5. "The Affordable Care Act at 10 Years: Evaluating the Evidence and Looking Ahead." Journal of Surgical Research, https://www.journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/S0022-4804%2821%2900016-0/fulltext.
Summary: This article gives great peer reviewed evidence that goes into the clinical and laboratory investigations. It can show the knowledge in the innovations and valuable resources of healthcare, especially in the aspect of professional healthcare workers who are actively improving patients care.
Details about the Source: This medical, peer reviewed medical journal, wrote in 1961 covers the broad spectrum of clinical and laboratory investigations, specifically about how patients are impacted by the effort put in by medical staff as well as the teachings they receive to treat the wide range of patients they may meet. This article unlike the rest helps show the importance in the practices and teachings that healthcare personal receives in the times that they will need to treat and take care of patients. Although the main teachings told is about surgery, I love the idea and new topic of focusing on the teachings and efforts of medical personal rather than the tools and other things that I talked about before that go into improved healthcare.
Relevance to Project: I like the use of this website as it allows for a new perspective into the view of things. Brining the importance to healthcare workers rather than clients may be different than what I started with, but it is still important non the less. I believe that If the audience understands that not only does the facility and effort that may go into perusing them be effective and important, but also how medical and healthcare staff knowledge and treatment can also play a vital role in the treatment and care they can be given. I feel like being so caught up on the treated rather than the people doing such actions can make us see them as less as we may undermine their doings. But putting a focus to the staff that helps as well as the people seeking help will be a good basis on building my websites topics around. This is a frequently asked question?
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