Disparities In Vulnerable Populations

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Identify a vulnerable population that you see in your caseload or that lives in your community.
Describe the effect of disparities of health services to that population on health-promotion outcomes.

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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I see many vulnerable populations in my caseload, but one of the most prominent are refugees and immigrants. Refugees and immigrants experience higher levels of health disparities due to their limited access to health care services, language barriers, cultural differences, poverty and lack of social supports. For example, refugee families may not be aware of the importance of preventive health screenings or vaccinations for themselves or their children. They may also fear accessing medical care because they are unfamiliar with the American healthcare system or have a mistrust in it due to previous experiences in other countries.

 

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I see many vulnerable populations in my caseload, but one of the most prominent are refugees and immigrants. Refugees and immigrants experience higher levels of health disparities due to their limited access to health care services, language barriers, cultural differences, poverty and lack of social supports. For example, refugee families may not be aware of the importance of preventive health screenings or vaccinations for themselves or their children. They may also fear accessing medical care because they are unfamiliar with the American healthcare system or have a mistrust in it due to previous experiences in other countries.

 

The effect these disparities have on health-promotion outcomes is significant as lack of access to quality medical care increases risk for chronic physical and mental illnesses that could otherwise be prevented or managed more effectively with earlier intervention and treatment. This can lead to poorer prognosis overall, greater financial burden associated with long-term management costs, decreased quality life individuals within community potentially leading displacement homelessness even suicide attempts filling emergency rooms instead usual preventative visits.

By creating initiatives aimed at tackling these issues such providing interpreters certain hospital departments nonprofits which offer free help navigating insurance programs aid connecting low income people resources needed maintain safe housing there great potential reduce disparity between refugees immigrants rest population ultimately promote healthier outcomes across board when comes promoting healthy lifestyles better access quality healthcare services available those who need them most!

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