HEALTH DISPARITY

Implications of Health Disparity

[Writer's University]

Implications of Health Disparity

Question 1

Evaluate the role of race and ethnicity in risk assessment and health disparity.

Answer 1

Health disparities may be defined as the differences in health outcomes on the basis of social inequalities, such as race, social class and ethnicity, or urban and rural population. These factors perform a very significant role in the health care of individuals. People belonging to low class of society, are diagnosed and treated in a different manner, by the medical practitioners and other related departments, as against the high class individuals (Barr, 2008). It has been estimated by the ...