Healthcare Access
Low-income families often lack this, making it hard to afford medical care.
Health insurance
Low-income families often face this form of insecurity, which affects their ability to afford or access sufficient, nutritious food.
Food insecurity
Nurses must maintain this ethical standard, ensuring that low-income patients' personal health information is not shared without consent, despite potential outside pressures.
Confidentiality
This is a program designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention over the next decade.
Healthy People (2020/2030)
This government healthcare program helps low-income families access essential medical services.
Medicaid
A major barrier for low-income families seeking healthcare, this can prevent people from traveling to appointments.
Lack of transportation
This ethical issue arises when low-income families lack access to technology, creating barriers to telehealth services and online health resources.
Digital Divide
One of the primary goals of Healthy People 2020/2030 is to eliminate ____, which disproportionately affect low-income populations.
Health disparities
This type of healthcare program provides medical coverage for children in low-income families.
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
This factor includes the strength and quality of relationships and support systems within a community, which can impact both physical and mental health.
Social support
This ethical concern arises when a nurse's personal beliefs about poverty and healthcare conflict with the needs of the patient.
Personal bias
Healthy People 2030 highlights the importance of reducing this chronic condition, which disproportionately affects low-income populations due to poor access to healthcare and healthy food.
Diabetes
This type of assistance helps low-income families afford necessary medications, reducing the burden of healthcare costs.
Prescription assistance programs
Low-income families often face barriers to this critical service, which can improve health literacy and health outcomes over time.
Education
This type of ethical distress occurs when a nurse's ability to provide adequate care for low-income patients is hindered by burnout or emotional exhaustion.
Compassion fatigue
Healthy People 2030 includes an objective to reduce the percentage of people living in ______, a key challenge for low-income families.
Unsafe or substandard housing conditions