Team ARIA

By Elizabeth Prom-Wormley

Thank you to everyone who visited us at the Fairfield Court Health Fair. We hope you enjoyed our game and benefited from our resources. Remember to take a minute to check out our resource website at: rvahealthweb.org

This week we are discussing access to health care in the east end.

The following is a table displays the number of adults who have health insurance coverage

Do any of the adults in your household have health Insurance coverage?	N	Percent
Yes, all	599	60
Yes, some but not all	202	20.2
No	197	19.7
Don’t know	59	5.5
Total	1057

 

The following table shows us how East End households pay for health care

 

What do the people in your household use to help pay for health care (check all that apply)?	N	Percent
No insurance	118	10.8
Health insurance	19	1.7
Medicare	227	20.8
Medicaid	418	38.3
Private insurance	180	16.5
Bon Secours Care Card	21	1.9
VCC (Virginia Coordinated Care)	141	12.9
Total	1090

 

Finally the Seventh District Health and Wellness Survey collected opinions on what might be hindering communities in the East End from getting health care

 

What do you think keeps people in your community from getting health care? (choose all that apply	N	Percent
Don’t Have Insurance	738	67.7
Costs too much	625	57.3
No ride or transportation problems	469	43
Bad experiences with doctors or hospitals in the past	201	18.4
Afraid of what they might find out	375	34.4
No child care	193	17.7
Not sure what it will be like	133	12.2
Really hard to get there during the hours they are open	201	18.4
Total	1090

What do these numbers mean to you? If you live in the East End and would like to shed some light on the tables above, please comment below.