Many people across the world face many challenges in accessing quality healthcare. This usually affects low income families who find it difficult to access medicine when they get sick. This leads to a lot of suffering and depression among these families. There are several reasons why I would focus on this medical issue instead of population. The first reason is to reduce pain and suffering. Many low income families who cannot get access to medicine suffer a lot. They go through pain which makes my heart sad. I don’t like hearing people suffer from things we can solve. That is why I intend to develop this human service program. The second reason is to reduce prolonged illness. Inability to get access to medicine and quality healthcare leads to prolonged illness (Baldoni, 2019). This means that patients from such low income families take too long to heal. This can lead to reduced production in the economy. This happens when the sick people don’t go to work because the sickness is taking too long to heal.

Another reason why I intend to develop this program is to prevent and reduce number of deaths. Having no access to essential medicines has led to numerous numbers of deaths in low income families. This brings pain to family members and friends after losing their loved ones. Some children are left orphaned or single parented which affects their lives negatively. It pains me to see innocent children left on their own struggling with life when we can help. That is why I feel it is important to support such families to get access to medicines so that they can stay with their loved ones in peace. In addition to this, women and men can be left widowed which can affect their lives negatively as well. It is very painful to lose your loved in a situation that can be prevented. Poverty has affected the administration of quality healthcare to people in many ways (Benjamin, 2018). These are the reasons why I intend to develop this program. The main point behind this is to become a blessing in another person’s life.

The main issues I plan to address in this program include the following. The first issue is holistic individual health. This is characterized by the treatment of the whole individual, taking into account social and mental factors, rather than just the symptoms of the disease. Another issue is high costs of medicines and lack of insurance coverage (Alexander, 2020). These issues go hand in hand. To be specific, they are the main reasons why individuals from low income families find it difficult to access medicines and quality health care. That is why I believe that if these issues are addressed and solved, these families will benefit and get access to medicines and quality health care.

The following are also healthcare needs that my program will address. They include mental, physical, sensory, emotional, developmental and behavioral needs that require good medical management, specialized services and effective healthcare interventions. These needs are very important in human life and that is why they are going to be taken seriously. I believe that if these issues I have raised in this program can be fixed, then millions of families will get solutions to their health problems.

References

Alexander, G. C., Stoller, K. B., Haffajee, R. L., & Saloner, B. (2020). An epidemic in the midst of a pandemic: opioid use disorder and COVID-19. Annals of internal medicine, 173(1), 57-58.

Baldoni, S., Amenta, F., & Ricci, G. (2019). Telepharmacy services: present status and future perspectives: a review. Medicina, 55(7), 327.

Benjamin, L. M., Voida, A., & Bopp, C. (2018). Policy fields, data systems, and the performance of nonprofit human service organizations. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 42(2), 185-204.

Access to medicine is affiliated to political situations in the following ways. The rate of exposure of persons to diseases and death varies in different localities. Political practices and political institutions determine where there is full health availability and also the contrary, clients with income inequality face political inequality which aligns with neglect of the poor in access to health which is a causation of political inequality. When political violence becomes dormant and vicious, the destructions of health facilities, exposure to health hazards and deaths is inevitable. (V Navarro, 2020) Political incentives to allocation of resources to heath sector is a determinant of the nature of health institutional investment. Clients may not have access to health because of a political move of a nation to invest on other sectors like military which is not basic and downplay the health sector. (C Muntaner,2020) The use of allocated resources could prove futile if it is in control of selfish interest political moves for example corruption.

The economic factors that affect medicine and affordable health care are; economic disparity makes access to health a problem because medicine might be expensive, or the service of medicine is expensive. The effect of prolonged sickness causes economic crises, because the sickness causes weakness which is proportional to income generation. Economic problems cause prolonged sickness and premature deaths. (Sharma, R. 2018)

The social effect to the program I will discuss is food security and housing, with limited food, clients would be prone to nutrition based diseases, either in consumption of unhealthy foods, inadequate food or plenty food. All this play a role in the effect to the health of the populace. The social security of housing, is critical in causing positive of negative effect on the clients in that, availability of clean, accessible housing, rids away disease causing organisms and pathogens for example mosquitos. This are directing causes of sickness and poor health condition. (Charkhchi P, 2018)

In accessing the needs of the community, an observation of the population ratio to health centers present would be a determinant of the need to health care, the situation of the economy of the community would be helpful, I would ask them to tell me after a consensus of their needs as well as their strengths, and take note of them.

The greatest diversity that would affect my program is the economic diversity, the rich who can access health care would be reluctant to support or participate in my program because it does not serve their interest. On the other hand, the poor would probably welcome the program and embrace it as a savior to their health and livelihood. This is because essentially the program is to help the less economically empowered. The culture of synergy or collectiveness in a community would be a positive impact to both the program and the community because, in case they all or a majority of them especially the personnel with decision making authority, accept the program then it would have a positive impact. A culture of capitalism where the community lives independently, few persons would get the essence of the program to their livelihood.

Work cited.

Muntaner, C., & Navarro, V. (2020). Conclusion: Political, economic, and cultural determinants of population health—A research agenda. In Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being (pp. 551-556). Routledge.

Sharma, R. (2018). Health and economic growth: Evidence from dynamic panel data of 143 years. PloS one, 13(10), e0204940.

Charkhchi, P., Dehkordy, S. F., & Carlos, R. C. (2018). Housing and food insecurity, care access, and health status among the chronically ill: an analysis of the behavioral risk factor surveillance system. Journal of general internal medicine, 33(5), 644-650.

The primary goal for the program will be to offer quality, satisfactory and safe health care services to low-income families. Poverty has affected the administration of quality healthcare to people in many ways. Some of the measurable objectives that would ensure that the program attains its goals are to offer more jobs to low-income families, so they are able to pay and receive the medical treatment and drugs they need. Another is by offering a government medical fund that provides insurance covers that are affordable to low-income families. This will ensure that they receive the medical services they require and medications at affordable rates for everyone (Benjamin, 2018).

Some of the activities and services that would be helpful include the program developing an affordable insurance cover. The program will collaborate with the government to ensure that the coverage is open to all citizens. The program will also work hand in hand with the government to ensure that individuals over the age of 18 have manual jobs where they can generate a decent income. This will ensure that millions of families have access to the health care services they require.

Reference

Benjamin, L. M., Voida, A., & Bopp, C. (2018). Policy fields, data systems, and the performance of nonprofit human service organizations. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 42(2), 185-204.