Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Outcomes and Healthcare Access in the United State of America: A Review Approach

Investment in the healthcare sector has long been viewed as a means of ensuring that everyone has access to health services in the United States, a nation with a predominately privatized health system. Nonetheless, there is mounting evidence that other non-health factors frequently have a significant impact on the utilization of healthcare services. The access to and usage patterns of health services are influenced by socioeconomic variables, which have a significant impact on health outcomes. Access to healthcare is more readily available to the affluent than to those in poorer socioeconomic conditions. In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is imperative that more people have access to health care. This study examined the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) and other social and economic factors on the health of immigrants in the US, using secondary data. The primary focus of this review was the socio-economic factors that influence health outcomes in the US. It conducted a review on how socioeconomic factors affect US health outcomes. Without regard to chronological constraints, the research was carried out by searching through the databases of pertinent publications and only contained papers written in English. Included studies were those that analyzed socioeconomic factors as key variables in healthcare access and usage among US residents. The results of this study demonstrate that, in developed nations, especially the US, a variety of health outcomes, including the usage and accessibility of health care services, have been linked to occupation, higher income, education, ethnicity/racism, and poverty status. The majority of the evaluated research has demonstrated a correlation between various health outcomes and socioeconomic variables. The study concluded that social and economic determinants play a critical role in shaping health outcomes and healthcare access in the US. In order to address non-medical, social determinants of health within the framework of the health care delivery system, policies should be implemented to include health outcome considerations into non-health policy sectors.