Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Exercise 12

A 73-year-old white woman is brought to the emergency department by a neighbor who found the woman experiencing severe abdominal and lower back pain for 2 days and nausea and vomiting for the last 24 hours.She has always refused medical care of any kind and lives by herself "up the mountain" off a dirt road in rural West Virginia.She had two children with the help of a midwife but they both left for the West Coast years ago and she rarely sees them.She was not married to the father of her children and she has not seen him in years.She has barely made a living by sewing for a doll company and receives a small amount of public assistance.As ill as she is, she is insisting that she will return home after she sees the doctor.List at least four factors in this situation that contribute to health disparities.
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