Demographic Paper

This paper is about children and how important health care is for them. Will be looking at how many children are and are not insured. What kind of help is out there for parent so they can make sure their child is healthy?

Identify the targeted population

The population is children who are enrolled in Medicaid in Kent County and how it keeps growing each year according to SRA International INC. (2011) “approximately 40% of all children age 0-17 “(para 1). The children who are on it are limited to what preventive health care because of different reasons according to SRA International INC. (2011) “including low Medicaid reimbursement rates” (para 1).

Gather data about the population demographics

There are children in Kent County that are not insured or they have Medicaid which pays for health care for the child. According to Center for Health care Research & Transformation (2010) “notably, in 2005/2006, Michigan had the lowest rate of uninsured children in the nation” (introduction). In Michigan a family with at least one parent might be employed and the parent cannot afford insurance and are poor due to not having degree form schooling. By race the uninsured was not “distributed evenly across the population” (Michigan’s Uninsured by race 2006/2008). “African Americans and Hispanic populations were uninsured they” and “African American 13.6 percent of the overall 22.9 percent were uninsured Hispanics 3.6 percent and 7.3 were uninsured”. In the surrounding county around Michigan the uninsured it was mostly in the southeast “(Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties)” (Michigan’s’ Uninsured Status by County, 2008).

Describe the general impact that changing demographics may have on the health care market

In Michigan according to Michigan Surgeon General's (2010) “the 200 Census, Michigan has the eight largest populations in the United States over three-quarters of the residents live in the metropolitan area” (Michigan's Demographic, Socioeconomic and...