As it is known, each community might influence the healthcare industry in a certain way, according to the history, values, and resources of its people. The reason why this occurs in this certain way is that the culture of a community evolves into the achievements of its members, which are expressed in the material progress. Hence, such factors as the mindset of the population formed through its history are important. In the current essay, the community of Boston is viewed and assessed through multiple aspects, and guidelines for a strategy are analyzed.
Before all, it is significant to analyze the resources in Boston at a local level. For example, in Greater Boston local community, there are such communal resources as assistance in housing, immigration, and legal services, childcare, mental health resources. Moreover, there are multiple private educational organizations and health facilities (Cambridge College, 2021). The political institutions influence these resources; precisely, the democratic party presides over them, as well as the economy of the city has its impact on the environment (Shade, n.d.). These facilities demonstrate the high development of the local communities since they prove that they can be almost entirely self-serving.
Next, the resources on the local level can be compared to the resources on the regional level. Namely, the resources of Massachusetts (the region where Boston is situated) include financial, housing, and nutrition assistance, as well legal emergency childcare and mental health facilities (William James College, 2021). The regional resources are richer than the local ones due to the influence of the government, which tends to centralize the resources in the regional center. Thus, the city or economically advantageous neighborhoods can have more communal facilities than local communities.
The healthcare policy of the state influences both the local resource of healthcare and regional ones. In the case of Massachusetts and Boston in particular, the Commission of Healthcare emphasizes the importance of innovation in the medical sphere. For example, digitalizing is considered a valuable strategy in the region (Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, 2018). As a result, this policy makes healthcare facilities more technologically equipped and suitable for the needs of society.
The situation in the local community of Boston shows a rather ambiguous, but on closer examination, unpleasant picture. Most healthcare facilities are concentrated around just a few neighborhoods, which have a wealthier population than the rest of the city. For example, a study of the number of hospitals in the community during the COVID pandemic states that in the neighborhoods with high-income population contain more healthcare facilities. The rest of the community is forced to have a small number of hospitals (Boston University, 2020). This situation suggests that the healthcare resources in this community are different according to the varying demographics.
The demography of the Boston region is not diverse and demonstrates the culture and mentality of local traditions. The city is extremely diverse culturally, as evidenced by the Foreign-Born Population of 27.9% (Shade, n.d.). Moreover, the city is quite multicultural because, among foreigners in the city, there are about 109.953 ± 8.076 Chinese people, 93.708 ± 7.464 Brazilian people, and 92.675 ± 7.424 people from the Dominican Republic (Shade, n.d.). Boston’s racial and cultural diversity demonstrates the freedom and openness of the city in general and its community in particular.
The clear advantages of the urban community include the educational sphere and, in particular, its features. Boston is renowned for its medical facilities and education for its employees (Burrows, 2018). Thanks to this, talented young doctors study in Boston, receive qualifications, and, importantly, continue their practice in the city itself or the surrounding area. Thus, minds do not drain from the community, which speaks of its reliability and medical support. On the other hand, a clear disadvantage is a situation that is common in many large cities in the United States, for example, Los Angeles or New York, namely, strong inequality (Boston University, 2020). It is expressed precisely in medicine because the majority of the population does not have access to good health care.
The main obstacle to improving the community is the obvious inequality of the population. The concentration of the best goods, services, and logistics in areas with a tiny percentage of the wealthy population taking everything from the majority of the less wealthy citizens. This is reflected in housing, logistics, and most importantly, in medical services (Boston University, 2020). Boston provides a large number of medical personnel. However, the municipality allows them to be concentrated around the regions with the richest citizens.
Many things can be done to improve the health care and health care of the community, but the ultimate goal is important. Based on the main problems in this area, the community should strive for an equal distribution of institutions between neighborhoods, for more equal opportunities both for their entire population and for individual medical professionals. Funding by the municipality of district clinics and hospitals can improve the situation at times. For this, you need to start moving towards an equal distribution of benefits among the population.
Given all of the above, in this essay, I examined the issues of local and regional resources and their distribution and interconnection and related topics. For example, I touched upon the issues of medicine and medical resources in general, which are important for the city and the community. I also expanded on the topic of Boston’s demographics and resource allocation within its community, building on clear inequalities in both demographics and neighborhoods. Looking at the problems and ways of solving the problem of the community, I concluded that one should strive to increase the even distribution of medical resources and benefits without regard to the material condition of citizens.
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William James College. (2021). Guide to Massachusetts community resources for basic needs during COVID 19. Web.