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It means they have an equal opportunity to receive contraception, prenatal counseling and services, post-natal services for mother and child, preventative healthcare services, vaccinations, and dentistry services, from earliest childhood and through their lives into their elderly years when they require more medical services to remain healthy and active. To the extent everyone in a given community or society has the same relative access to healthcare services and to the extent those services received are of comparable quality, healthcare access could be described as being equitable. On the other hand, to the extent everyone in a given community or society does not have the same relative access to healthcare services and to the extent those services received are not of comparable quality, healthcare access could be describes as being inequitable (Kennedy, 2006; Reid, 2009).
Healthcare Equity in the Contemporary United States
Unfortunately healthcare access in the U.S....
is not equitable at all presently (Kennedy, 2006; Reid, 2009). Approximately 50,000 people die prematurely every year precisely because they cannot afford routine preventative healthcare services, prescription medications, and/or necessary therapeutic interventions that are available to individuals of greater financial means (Kennedy, 2006; Reid, 2009). Nearly 40% of Americans cannot afford health insurance, which means the only healthcare services they usually receive are those absolutely necessary to relieve acute health problems after their symptoms become intolerable (Kennedy, 2006; Reid, 2009). That is precisely why healthcare reform is one of the most important societal changes required in the U.S. (Kennedy, 2006; Reid, 2009).
References
Kennedy, E. (2006). America: Back on Track. Viking Press: New York.
Reid T. (2009). The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer
Health Care. New York: Penguin Books.
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