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Assignment Prompt & Instructions

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**Step 1: Select One Topic**

Choose
**one** of the following healthcare access problems:

· Lack of health insurance

· Rural hospital closures

· Unequal access to mental health services

· Emergency department overuse for nonemergency care

· OR another access issue
**approved** by the professor

**Step 2: Paper Structure & Required Sections**

1.
**Introduction (1 pages)**

· Introduce the healthcare access issue and its importance.

· Identify the population(s) most affected.

· State your thesis—that is, what sociological explanation you will argue.

2.
**Background & Scope of the Problem (1 pages)**

· Describe the issue using recent data (incidence, prevalence, trends).

· Discuss who is affected (race, class, gender, geography, age).

· Use at least one statistic from a reputable source (CDC, HRSA, CMS, AHRQ, peer-reviewed literature).

· Integrate relevant sections from Barkan (2023) on healthcare structure, inequality, or access.

3.
**Sociological Frameworks & Concepts (2 pages)**

Apply
**at least four** sociological frameworks from the course.

Options include the following:

· Structural inequality

· Social stratification

· Conflict theory

· Symbolic interactionism

· Social determinants of health

· Medicalization

· Fundamental cause theory

· Structural functionalism

Explain the following:

· Why the problem exists sociologically

· How structures, institutions, and power maintain the inequality

· How Barkan frames inequality in the U.S. healthcare system

4.
**Contributing Factors (1 pages)**

Analyze factors that shape access barriers, such as the following:

· Economic factors

· Race and ethnicity

· Geography (e.g., the rural–urban divide)

· Insurance design

· Provider shortages

· Social stigma (especially for mental health)

· Political and institutional factors

This section should link the problem to broader patterns of inequality in American society.

5.
**Policy Analysis & Policy Solutions (1 pages)**

**Required Section**

You must analyze
**at least two existing policies** and propose
**one evidence-based recommendation.**

E.
**Current Policy Landscape**

Describe relevant current policies (federal, state, or organizational)—for example:

1. Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions

1. Medicaid expansion

1. HRSA rural hospital programs

1. Mental health parity laws

1. EMTALA

1. Telehealth expansion policies

Discuss the following:

1. What each policy was designed to do

1. Who benefits and who is left out

1. Where policy gaps remain

E.
**Proposed Policy Recommendation**

2. Present one realistic, research-supported policy solution.

2. Use evidence from research to justify why it would reduce inequality.

2. Connect the recommendation to sociological concepts (e.g., addressing structural barriers).

6.
**Conclusion (0.5 page)**

Summarize the following:

· The sociological explanation of the issue

· Key findings

· Why addressing the issue matters for reducing health inequality in the U.S.

No new information should be added here.

**## Quitaweek7.docx**

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**Step 1: Select One Topic**

Choose
**one** of the following healthcare access problems:

· Lack of health insurance

· Rural hospital closures

· Unequal access to mental health services

· Emergency department overuse for nonemergency care

· OR another access issue
**approved** by the professor

**Step 2: Paper Structure & Required Sections**

1.
**Introduction (1 pages)**

· Introduce the healthcare access issue and its importance.

· Identify the population(s) most affected.

· State your thesis—that is, what sociological explanation you will argue.

2.
**Background & Scope of the Problem (1 pages)**

· Describe the issue using recent data (incidence, prevalence, trends).

· Discuss who is affected (race, class, gender, geography, age).

· Use at least one statistic from a reputable source (CDC, HRSA, CMS, AHRQ, peer-reviewed literature).

· Integrate relevant sections from Barkan (2023) on healthcare structure, inequality, or access.

3.
**Sociological Frameworks & Concepts (2 pages)**

Apply
**at least four** sociological frameworks from the course.

Options include the following:

· Structural inequality

· Social stratification

· Conflict theory

· Symbolic interactionism

· Social determinants of health

· Medicalization

· Fundamental cause theory

· Structural functionalism

Explain the following:

· Why the problem exists sociologically

· How structures, institutions, and power maintain the inequality

· How Barkan frames inequality in the U.S. healthcare system

4.
**Contributing Factors (1 pages)**

Analyze factors that shape access barriers, such as the following:

· Economic factors

· Race and ethnicity

· Geography (e.g., the rural–urban divide)

· Insurance design

· Provider shortages

· Social stigma (especially for mental health)

· Political and institutional factors

This section should link the problem to broader patterns of inequality in American society.

5.
**Policy Analysis & Policy Solutions (1 pages)**

**Required Section**

You must analyze
**at least two existing policies** and propose
**one evidence-based recommendation.**

E.
**Current Policy Landscape**

Describe relevant current policies (federal, state, or organizational)—for example:

1. Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions

1. Medicaid expansion

1. HRSA rural hospital programs

1. Mental health parity laws

1. EMTALA

1. Telehealth expansion policies

Discuss the following:

1. What each policy was designed to do

1. Who benefits and who is left out

1. Where policy gaps remain

E.
**Proposed Policy Recommendation**

2. Present one realistic, research-supported policy solution.

2. Use evidence from research to justify why it would reduce inequality.

2. Connect the recommendation to sociological concepts (e.g., addressing structural barriers).

6.
**Conclusion (0.5 page)**

Summarize the following:

· The sociological explanation of the issue

· Key findings

· Why addressing the issue matters for reducing health inequality in the U.S.

No new information should be added here.