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Health Disparities And Access In American Children: Addressing Speech And Language Pathology Though Education And Healthcare, Ilaria Monteleone
Health Disparities And Access In American Children: Addressing Speech And Language Pathology Though Education And Healthcare, Ilaria Monteleone
Human Development Honors Papers
There are many underserved populations in America who struggle for various reasons including systemic and structural barriers as well as familial and individual factors (Gonzalez et. al., 2018). Our most vulnerable populations in America are likely to experience lower access to quality education and healthcare (Gonzalez et. al., 2018). Barriers to healthcare access include: financial, physical, educational, and psychological (Diderichsen, 2010). In this paper, I focus on where health disparities are present in the U.S. and who makes up our most vulnerable populations facing these inequities to access. I focus on the American healthcare system and what programs are in …