Compare prominent health concerns in developed countries with prominent health concerns in underdeveloped countries, and explain how factors such as the economy, politics, and natural resources contribute to global health disparities. What can you do as a DNP-educated nurse to help reduce these global health disparities? Provide examples and relevant literature to support your response.

Compare prominent health concerns in developed countries with prominent health concerns in underdeveloped countries, and explain how factors such as the economy, politics, and natural resources contribute to global health disparities. What can you do as a DNP-educated nurse to help reduce these global health disparities? Provide examples and relevant literature to support your response.

Compare prominent health concerns in developed countries with prominent health concerns in underdeveloped countries, and explain how factors such as the economy, politics, and natural resources contribute to global health disparities. What can you do as a DNP-educated nurse to help reduce these global health disparities? Provide examples and relevant literature to support your response.

DQ1

Both developing and developed countries have major health concerns; however, they differ on a range of prominent health issues. For example, the prominent health issues in developed countries include healthcare system expenditure and eliminating health disparities (Kruk et al., 2018). For instance, in the United States, health disparities exist among minority and underserved communities such as Black Americans, Hispanic Americans and immigrants. Another prominent health concern in developed countries is attaining excellence in quality care. The common prominent health factors present in developing and developed countries include health access, leading to advocacy for universal health coverage to enhancing health access to all communities (Shadmi et al., 2020).

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In developing countries, the prominent health issues include infections, lack of health equality, high mortality rates, insufficient public health systems, poor sanitation, poverty, malnutrition, lack of insurance, and inaccessibility of the few available health facilities. Several factors play a role in the poor healthcare delivery in developing countries such as politics, economy, and natural resources. For example, developing countries often have poor economies meaning that building proper health infrastructure is not easy people can barely afford healthcare (Gaudin & Yazbeck, 2021). Similarly, politics also contributes to health disparities. In developing countries, poor governance has seen the majority of leaders misuse public funds and resources for personal gain rather than for the development of an effective health system.

As a DNP-prepared nurse, understanding health disparities is important so that one can contribute to policy development and amendments on the global front, aiming to promote health access and equity (Gaudin & Yazbeck, 2021). For example, a DNP-prepared nurse can advocate for policies that ensure better health access to underserved populations. Additionally, nurses with the support of non-governmental organizations can set up clinics in developing countries to promote access to obstetric and gynaecological services to reduce high rates of maternal and child mortalities.

References

Gaudin, S., & Yazbeck, A. (2021). Identifying Major Health-System Challenges in Developing Countries Using PERs: Equity is the Elephant in the Room. Health Systems & Reform, 7:2. https://doi.10.1080/23288604.2021.1902671.

Kruk, M. E., Gage, A., & Arsenault, C. (2018). High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution. The Lancet, E1196-E1252. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30386-3.

Shadmi, E., Chen, Y., & Dourado, I. (2020). Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives. Int J Equity Health, 19, 104. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01218-z.

DQ2

The World Health Organization article, Maternal Mortality, describes the statistics of maternal mortality. Maternal mortality is a major global health issue and a component of Sustainable Development Goals, which seeks to reduce maternal mortality to less than 70 per 100,000 live births as part of improving maternal and child health (WHO, 2021). Maternal is a crisis, especially in developing countries, which have the highest percentage of maternal mortality. According to the article, 94% of maternal deaths occur in low-income countries (WHO, 2021). Childbearing women in developing countries experience high mortality rates because of poor health systems, poor economy, poverty, and bad governance, which contribute to a lack of access to proper healthcare services from the prenatal period to the post-natal stage. On the global level, high maternal mortality rates in developing countries reflect global health inequalities and the gap between the rich and the poor.

The article further notes that maternal deaths occur during the pregnancy journey due to complications before, during, or after birth. In most cases, these complications are preventable and treatable with more effective healthcare response and accessibility to health services. Moreover, girls between 10-14 years are at greater risk of complications and death. In developing countries, 1 out of 45 girls aged 15 years is likely to die from maternal causes compared to 1 out of 5400 in developed countries (WHO, 2021).

One of the strategies that could mitigate maternal mortalities in developing countries is introducing mobile clinics in rural and underserved communities and encouraging women to seek prenatal care as early as when the pregnancy is confirmed (Krukowski et al., 2022). Evidence suggests that starting prenatal care early and continuing throughout the pregnancy period reduces the risk of pregnancy-related complications (Ali et al., 2020). Another practical initiative is nutrition-based programs for pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. Access to proper nutrition is one of the factors that promote better health outcomes for pregnant mothers, preventing the risk of ill health and complications caused by malnutrition.

References

Ali, N., Elbarazi, I., Alabboud, S., Al-Maskari, F., Loney, T., & Ahmed, L. (2020). Antenatal Care Initiation Among Pregnant Women in the United Arab Emirates: The Mutaba’ah Study. Front Public Health, 8:211. https://doi.10.3389/fpubh.2020.00211.

Krukowski, R., Jacobson, L., & John, J. (2022). Correlates of Early Prenatal Care Access among U.S. Women: Data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). Matern Child Health J , 26, 328–341. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-032.

WHO. (2021, 30 August). Maternal mortality: Key Facts. Retrieved from World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/europe/news-room/fact-sheets/item/maternal-mortality

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Topic 8 DQ 1

Assessment Description

Compare prominent health concerns in developed countries with prominent health concerns in underdeveloped countries, and explain how factors such as the economy, politics, and natural resources contribute to global health disparities. What can you do as a DNP-educated nurse to help reduce these global health disparities? Provide examples and relevant literature to support your response.

Topic 8 DQ 2
Assessment Description

Visit the World Health Organization (WHO) website and locate an article that relates to research on the global health crisis. Include the link to the article and summarize the crisis the article discusses. Propose two realistic and achievable initiatives within the scope of nursing science that could help to mitigate this crisis. Provide examples and relevant literature to support your response.