Health Without Gaps continues to support our vulnerable population.

Child Health and its Impact on Population Health

The improvements of child health consist of communitywide analysis in finding improved ways of handling health diseases, like the chronic asthma.  According to MedlinePlus (n.d.), a United States Library of Medicine for health information and improvement, the chronic disease of asthma affects the tubes of human airways, when carrying air in and out of lungs.  […]

Healthcare Industry in the United States, and The Question of Structural Inequality.

As a healthcare leader, one may view health inequality as still on the rise in the labor market. Likewise, researchers may need to open-up critical conversations about gender mentality. Gender inequality can be referred to as “structural inequality.” This is because the mentality of inequality has built on the system for a long period of […]

Health Literacy

Health literacy occurs when health information and services created for the public match with people’s capacity to find, understand, and use them. AHRQ’s health literacy resources help health care professionals and delivery organizations make information easier to understand and systems easier to navigate for patients.  I will say the National Action Plan to Improve Health […]

United States Healthcare System

There are many advocates of U.S healthcare system, in terms of historical and quality delivery of care. For example, some advocates of healthcare improvement, quality and equality of care have come far away from home. This is because there is no doubt the trends in U.S. healthcare industry is evolving, and thanks to policy changes, […]

Quality of Care and the United States Healthcare Spending

Addressing the quality of care in today’s era of health care reform is neither a top-down nor bottom-up approach alone.  This is because successful implementation of any health care reform law will be contingent on the ability of all participating parties ( ie. federal government, the states, health care payers, hospitals, industry, medical societies, physicians, […]

Governing Boards in Healthcare Foundations and Community of Practice (CoP)

The effective governing boards share long term vision and safeguard the interest of the shareholders, healthcare organizations. For example, the roles of the effective governing board of directors, in publicly held companies is governed in part by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and is designed to serve as a benchmark for management to protect shareholders. […]

United States Healthcare System and Financing

In terms of the complexity in US healthcare system, it is by no surprise that multiple players maintain key roles and face distinct challenges in the provision of care. These challenges range from financing and technological issues facing health facilities to supply and educational challenges facing providers.  There is the role-shifting of government toward health […]

Trust in Healthcare Administration and What is Ethical?

There are three critical issues in establishing trust between healthcare administration and doctors; Communication, Respect and Awareness. Communication is critical and needs to be established early in the administration to physician relationship. Administrators need to find out what the physicians need and how the administrators can meet those needs. The approach and delivery of communication […]

Leadership in Healthcare and Information Accessibility

Northouse defined and described leadership as “a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.”  Although before he defined leadership, he admitted the notion that there are many ways to define leadership and its roles in healthcare sector. Leadership can be defined as an act of stepping-up and impacting […]

Healthy Skepticism

Healthy skepticism for the purpose of this paper is the willingness to logically test anything that one considers as “true”, and being inclined to test new information before one accepts it as “true”. Correspondingly, healthy skepticism also includes refusing to condemn something as false unless it can be proven as false. Someone with healthy skepticism […]