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Briefly define the determinant and describe how it impacts healthcare outcomes. Health Care Access and Quality is the ability to obtain the necessary health care benefits such as access to medical care, a PCP, and knowledge of basic health information in a superior manner. The purpose of this determinant is to provide strategies to increase insurance coverage rates which are essential for ensuring more people get crucial health care services, such as preventive care and treatment for chronic illnesses (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2020). A sizable quantity of individuals in the United States. approximately ten percent do not get the health care services they require. The lack of health insurance will negatively impact the health care and patient outcomes as individuals with no insurance may not be able to afford the health care services and prescriptions they need. They are less likely to have a PCP that can refer them for follow up preventative care and screenings. The lack of access to quality care results in frequent hospitalizations, premature deaths due to lack of prevention, ethnic disparities, and increased burden on an already struggling health care system that we have (Angier et al., 2017). Objective related to your assigned social determinant, Identify the status of the objective and the population to whom the objective applies. Increase the proportion of adults who get recommended evidence-based preventive health care — AHS-08. In 2015 8.5 percent of adults 35 years or older had all suggested essential and applicable medical prevetive services. The desired result was an increase in patients receiving these services with a goal of 11.5%. As of 2018 6.9% of patients had received these services which is 4.6% short of the desired goal (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2020). Three appropriate questions related to the chosen objective that the NP could incorporate into the health history and interview to assess the client and family. Access to care, quality care, and preventative care can be affected by stress, early life, working conditions, access to food, and transportation, living conditions. Questions to be incorporated into the This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :43:40 GMT -06:00 assessment are What is your current living conditions, in the last year have you or your family had to go without food, healthcare, medications, and lastly has a lack of transportation prevented you from seeking care from your Primary care provider (Bickley, 2018). Identify at least two online, national, or local resources and explain how the resources could help meet the chosen objective for at-risk clients or families. If a patient does not make enough to pay for health insurance, they may qualify for Medicaid which assists patients of all ages. This is funded by the state and federal government and is the major healthcare financing source for the low-income population. The affordable care act looked to expand Medicaid admissibility in order to raise health insurance coverage rates, increase access to care, and boost use of preventive care (Cawley et al., 2018). Locally we have a program called project access. This program provides healthcare for the low income, uninsured residents of Travis County. The services received are donated from healthcare workers and there is no cost to the patients. Offered services are primary care, specialists, medication, and diagnostic studies (Project Access, 2016)