Selected Global Recommendation and Vulnerable Population
For this assignment, I have opted to go with the Global Recommendations as opposed to the Sustainable Development Goals. This does not mean that the SDGs are inferior but the global recommendations offer a much diverse approach with regards to health care. The recommendation I have found suitable for this assignment is Improving survival in women and children, the seventh recommendation according to table S-1. The vulnerable population that will be applied in expounding on this recommendation are women and children from the low income population. This recommendation intends to ensure that the mortality rates of women and children are significantly reduced and eliminated, thereby improving their life expectancy as well as quality of life.
Impactful Healthcare Policies
One health policy that impacts the selected vulnerable population is the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA was created to improve health care access, coverage and availability for the American population. The ACA impacts this global recommendation because it fronts several programs that are intended to improve the health status of women and children. One of these programs is the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) (Condon, 2019) and the Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns Initiatives (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2013). The latter was particularly developed to reduce preterm births through the application of evidence-based maternity care. Evidence-based maternity care includes proper screening and diagnosis of any defects that may out the lives of both mother and child during pregnancy, delivery or postpartum. Therefore, the ACA has provided enough leeway for health practitioners to ensure survival of women and children owing to subsidized costs of care as well as application of evidence-based practice when caring for these women and children.
Rationale for Selection of Global Recommendation
Women and children are categorized as vulnerable populations in several contexts. To further the disparities, the women and children from low income communities find it hard to make a living that will tend to their daily needs. Inability to make an adequate living exposes them to several disparities, including financial and health disparities. These disparities go on to affect their quality of life. This global recommendation looks to avert these regressive aspects by bridging the financial gap that affects women and children, and threatens their survival.
Likewise, this global recommendation amplifies the disparities that low-income women face in terms of access to health care services at crucial times, such as during the maternity period, prenatal care, child delivery as well as postnatal care. Various studies have shown that women with poor prenatal and postnatal care resources have a difficult maternity period (Cheong et al., 2020). Also, they experience difficulties during child birth and these end up compromising their health as well as the health of the unborn and infant children. When this recommendation is put into play, it is evident that there will be better health outcomes for women and children, thus facilitating their survival and growth.
Rationale for Implementation
To begin with, the entire globe is yearning for an atmosphere of better health across the continuum. This is regardless of the financial and economic disposition of the populations. If implemented, it will be the genesis of ending systemic health disparities that affect vulnerable populations. Other nations will also collaborate with the United States in a bid to improve maternal health across the world. Consequently, infant and maternal mortality rates certainly be reduced. Mothers and children will have an equal opportunity to live a healthy life where they will be capable of fending for their own needs. We have already learned that improving survival of women and children improves their health outcomes. Additionally, this recommendation, once implemented, will free women and children from the burden of disease, which is a crucial factor in regressing their progress. They do not have to worry about the burden of disease since they received exemplary care during the prenatal, delivery and postnatal periods. This includes getting all the necessary vaccines that will prevent infections.
This recommendation’s implementation will also go a long way in fostering resilient and sturdy communities. Women and children are an integral part in contemporary society. One survival-focused program for women and children is early childhood development. This includes features such as proper nutrition, access to good health services, proper education as well as proper nurturing (Richter et al., 2019). These facets are important are vital because they lead to physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development of the children. They then transform into being constructive members of society, who will further enhance health policies.
Finally, with proper funding, this global recommendation is easily attainable. Funding helps provide the necessary resources that will facilitate wider reach to all low income communities so as to improve the survival of women and children. The funds will ensure proper access to several resources relevant to curbing the health problems faced by these women and children, in addition to compensation of the health practitioners involved. Funding will additionally necessitate the spreading and sharing of knowledge through widespread campaigns targeted at women and children, campaigns that will provide them with useful information of the disparities they face and how the recommendation will abate this.
References
Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (2013). Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns Initiative.
Cheong, J. L., Spittle, A. J., Burnett, A. C., Anderson, P. J., & Doyle, L. W. (2020, June). Have outcomes following extremely preterm birth improved over time?. In Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (Vol. 25, No. 3, p. 101114). WB Saunders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.siny.2020.101114
Condon, E. M. (2019). Maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting: a call for a paradigm shift in states' approaches to funding. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 20(1), 28-40. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527154419829439
Richter, L., Black, M., Britto, P., Daelmans, B., Desmond, C., Devercelli, A., ... & Vargas-Barón, E. (2019). Early childhood development: an imperative for action and measurement at scale. BMJ global health, 4(Suppl 4), e001302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001302