Now, with pressure from legislators, investors and the public sector rising, more states and companies are proactively taking strides to decrease the disparity and address these damning numbers.
Increasing professional nurses' and nursing students cultural competence has been identified as one way to decrease the disparity of care for vulnerable and minority groups, but effectiveness of training programs to increase competence remains equivocal.
Access to health care for women is improving, but there are still many obstacles to overcome to decrease the health disparities between men and women [18, 22].
In addition, increasing cancer screening rates through the use of special events has the potential to decrease the health disparities associated with breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers because events' targeted audiences may be those more affected by the disease and more likely to be uninsured or underinsured.
Community-based participatory research to decrease the HIV/AIDS disparity by building community capacity and infrastructure and advocating for and distributing equitably, power and resources, must be promoted.
After these issues and needs are clarified, intervention programs should be developed to increase access and decrease the disparities of care experienced by these populations.
After these issues and needs have been clarified, intervention programs should be developed to increase access and decrease the disparities of care experienced by these populations.
Improved access to family planning, contraceptive methods, awareness and education will decrease the disparity and help efforts to achieve decreased neonatal mortality rates (Bhutta et al., 2014).
Better integrated navigation that continues throughout treatment will increase treatment completion with the potential to improve outcomes in African Americans and decrease the disparity in mortality.
This disparity has previously been reported in the ACM, as well as in Spain and other countries.,,,, Continued efforts to increase vaccination coverage among adults from different racial and ethnic groups are necessary to decrease these disparities.
