Which of the following actions would have little to no impact in helping resolve health care disparities?
a. Research on life stressors
b. Access to basic health care
c. Increasing diversity of health care workers
d. Health promotion and wellness programs
A
Some solutions to help resolve health care disparities include the following: increasing the diver-sity of health care providers; ensuring that all people have access to affordable, basic health care; promoting wellness and a healthy lifestyle; strengthening provider–patient relationships; in-creasing cultural competency of health care providers; and conducting research to determine why certain diseases affect minorities so greatly and to discover effective intervention strategies. Re-search on life stressors does not have an impact on resolving health care disparities.
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