Activism involves action which is going beyond what has been made convectional. Activism can be done door to door; it can also be done through the radio, in rallies or public meetings. Therefore, health activism is involving challenging the powers and the orders which are perceived to be influencing important aspect of health negatively. One of the ways that I have demonstrated activism is through the use of social media to address the issue of social discrimination in health care facilities (Parker, Kantroo, Lee, Osornio, Sharma & Grinter, 2012). The use of the media has helped me to address social discrimination in health care in order to create a positive impact on nursing about the patients’ outcomes.
Research has shown that patients who are poor and have low income are discriminated in most of health care. They are not given enough care as compared to patients who are coming from wealthy backgrounds. This is an aspect that has made most of the patients end up dying, and some may take a long time to recover since they are discriminated against, and they are viewed from a negative perspective as if they cannot pay their hospital bills.
I have been using social media as a way of addressing the issue to the public and the health care workers to ensure that patients from poor backgrounds are also entitled to the right of proper health provision. Due to technology, the world has been made like a small village, and social media is playing an essential role in helping to address various ways (Parker et al.). Health care provided to patients coming from less fortunate backgrounds can now get proper nursing care in most hospitals. This has impacted the patient outcome positively since most of the governments and the health ministry have come up to improve health care to even less fortunate families.
References
Parker, A., Kantroo, V., Lee, H. R., Osornio, M., Sharma, M., & Grinter, R. (2012, May). Health promotion as activism: building community capacity to effect social change. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 99-108).