Assignment: Eligibility Requirements And Coverage Of Medicaid

Assignment: Eligibility Requirements And Coverage Of Medicaid

Assignment: Eligibility Requirements And Coverage Of Medicaid

APA format, at least 300 word, references

What are the eligibility requirements and coverage of Medicaid for the categories of low-income adults, pregnant women, and the aging/blind/disabled in the state where you live? Do you consider the eligibility requirements reasonable or restrictive? Do you consider the coverage reasonable or liberal? What are the benefits and drawbacks to keeping these populations insured through Medicaid? Consider both direct and indirect factors.

Health Disparity and Structural Violence- Page-Reeves, et al.

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, Volume 6, Issue 2, Summer 2013

proper perspective and relationship of the clergy and the church to social injustice, suggests that diseases like diabetes have “a preferential option for the poor” (p. 140). When using a structural violence framework to consider public health contexts, biology and the environment are not treated as independent variables (Singer 2001). From this perspective, we can understand that individual health behavior is circumscribed by structured and institutionalized inequality that limits the ability of individuals to make choices. Limited options then directly affect health outcomes. Individual agency is limited by and contained within the options that are realistically available. In many cases, health-promoting choices are not an option, or they may not represent the most valuable strategy for an individual in the context of other limiting factors—regardless of whether other options are healthy or not. Maar, et al. (2011) used a structural violence approach focusing on the circumstances in which Aboriginal people live to understand barriers to diabetes maintenance and treatment. They suggest that “it is important to look beyond the surface and identify the root causes of non- adherence, to prevent the unjustifiable blaming of socio-politically disadvantaged and vulnerable patients for deteriorating their health” (p. 13). Their findings are “compelling” (p. 13). They show that barriers created by social and political marginalization