...PERSPECTIVES IN COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION Assessing a Targeted Family applying the MAP-IT steps Glen Williams Access the areas of greatest need in your community; in this case, assisting your target family to access health care, as well as the resources and other strengths that you can tap into in order to address those areas. Incorporate the goals of Health People 2010 when feasible. Overarching Goals * Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. * Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups. * Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. * Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. INTRODUCTION The MAP-IT approach is a step-by-step, structured plan devised to tailor one's community needs and improve the health of a community. To increase the quality and years of healthy living for all Americans and to eliminate disparities in health status, individuals and communities must works together to make certain the benefits of health are available to all. There are five steps in the MAP-IT process. The second step in building a healthier community is to assess the greatest needs of the community with the goal determining what you want to improve. . Assessing a Targeted Family applying the MAP-IT steps The second step in building a healthier community...
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...to communicate so they can run a smooth operation (dupre) whether the employees in my organization communicate verbal or not there is an understanding of what is expected from each person. I currently am employed at a community health center in a rural area; there are many different people who use this center as their medical provider. I am one of the front desk receptionists, which is where the communication between patient and doctor begins. Sometimes this can be tough due to the diversity there are many language barriers, but things have started to get better with time. The clinic has become very successful with different means of advertising and communicating what the clinic has to offer for medical services. The cliental is usually low income, in which the state picks up the bill, so they have used every available source such as bill boards, radio ads, and commercials to promote people to use the clinics to help keep health cost down. There is also a web page that allows the client to a view the main website that contains many different types of information such as locations, specialties, job opportunities. The clinic is mainly run through phone calls, pages or messages being sent through I Pads. The clinic does not use traditionally health charts, this is...
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...I. Description of Project The project for this week or course was to: "Identify one of the waste "wedges" or categories identified in the JAMA article by Berwick and Hackbarth and explore the opportunities where managerial epidemiology principles applied in accountable care models of care can reduce waste". The reason for the project is to explore the reasons why, and possible changes that can take place to lower the costs of healthcare. Healthcare in the United States is at an astounding 18% of GDP and is definitely demanding a change to lower the costs of healthcare. Not only does the United States pay more for healthcare than other leading countries, it sees less quality of care. As per the article by JAMA, the minimum believed to be spent on wasteful spending is $558 billion per year, and a midpoint of $910 billion per year. Eliminating that alone is enough to make a change in our healthcare system. In order to elaborate on the topic, this project identifies one of the waste wedges I decided to write about, tells why I chose the particular one that I did, what exactly the wedge is and how it produces waste while affecting healthcare, and then finally what we can do to lessen the waste, as well as a proposition to eliminate waste in said category while looking at a proposal to better the organization and population. II. Selection of Topic For this project I chose Failures of Care Delivery as my waste wedge to explore. A. What is Failures of Care Delivery Failures...
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...This paper is submitted only as an example of a mental health survey and may not be plagiarized in part or whole. This paper is property of the respective authors and may not be copied or quoted in any form. Mental Health Windshield Survey 2010 Census Data Summary:Prior to starting, research 2010 census data for the county you select http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12000.html Include age, race, household types, growth patterns, unemployment rate, etc. Include a summary paragraph here: | The population estimate for the city of Venice for 2011 is 20897. This is an increase by .7% from 2010 which was estimated at 20748. Persons over 65 represented a whopping 57% while younger than 18 stood at 7.5% Caucasians accounted for 97.3% of the population with 93% being a high school graduate or higher. The home ownership rate is 73% with the median income being 48K. Venice city covers a mere 15.27 square miles but abounds with things do, places to eat and people to meet, most of who are retired of course. | Boundaries: Select an urban area with walking traffic/business storefronts. Attach a Google map with at least an 8 x 8 block boundary highlighted. Does the neighborhood have an identity or name? Do you see it displayed? Are there unofficial names for the area? Is the area primarily commercial, industrial or residential or a mix? | From quaint boutiques to modern department stores, the area of Venice we explored had almost everything within bike riding distance...
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...of an Advanced Practice Nurse I see myself working in a primary care setting in an area of most need. I see my role as providing comprehensive care and promoting wellness in a community where healthcare has been on the back burner for many years not only by the healthcare community but also by the community itself. I am hoping that by being a strong advocate for those who have had difficulty advocating for themselves that I will also be able to pass my attitudes and caring on to others who provide care for this group of people. I see my role as the nurse practitioner as being a primary care provider working in collaboration with an entire team to provide the best possible outcome for the patient by utilizing all available resources. I want to work in a community health center where this can and is being done. Those served by the community health center are in desperate need of health care, quality health care. These patients have not had insurance up until the institution of the Affordable Care Act and have been treated poorly, if treated at all, in our current health care settings. My role as their primary care provider will be one of providing quality, comprehensive care along with the health teaching they so desperately need. Working with physicians and Nurse Practitioners in the community health center I work in now I am able to evaluate the differences in their care. Physicians are needed for diagnosing and managing the most difficult of the illnesses and diseases but...
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...340B Contract Pharmacies Frequently Asked Questions What is 340B? The 340B Drug Pricing Program helps provide underserved populations with affordable prescription drugs through qualified community health organizations. Federal regulations allow community health centers to contract with retail pharmacies to dispense 340B medications. SUNRx enables these contract pharmacies to provide affordable medications to 340B customers seamlessly and efficiently. Our fully automated solution manages eligibility, formulary, sliding scale and co-payment calculations, replenishment and inventory management. SUNRx also generates purchase orders and invoices to reduce paperwork and improve cash flow. Because our system uses standard NCPDP transaction codes and adjudicates just like third party insurance, minimal training is required for pharmacy staff and claims can be processed without disrupting patient flow. What is the financial impact of participating in a SUNRx 340B program? Many contract pharmacies realize a significant increase in revenues by participating in a 340B program administered by SUNRx. Will a 340B program disrupt my pharmacy operations, add additional burdens on my staff or inconvenience regular customers? SUNRx’s 340B solution was designed to integrate seamlessly into your current pharmacy operations. Because our system uses standard NCPDP transaction codes and adjudicates just like third party insurance, you serve 340B patients the same way you serve...
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...Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing. Jessica Pham Date: May 26, 2016 Instructor: Diane Schlicke University of Phoenix Material Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of three major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: • Key health issues at the time • Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing • Roles and functions of community and public health nursing • Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: | |Key health issues |Key health issues and maternal deaths: Poor health care in rural Appalachian mountains. Increased number of | | |child due to lack of care and services. | |Perspective/goals |In 1925 Mary Breckenridge started the Frontier Nursing Services. The goal was to provide obstetrics to the | | |people who lived in rural settlement areas. | |Role/functions |She went to train...
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...Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of three major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: Florence Nightingale | |Key health issues |Unclean patient environment, poor sanitary conditions delivered by “health care staff”. | |Perspective/goals |She identified a need and advocated for formalized training for women to be trained as nurses. | |Role/functions |She identified that lack of cleanliness in patient care clinical areas was directly linked to poor patient | | |outcomes. She pushed for sanitary conditions in areas where patient care such as dressing changes and wound | | |care were performed as well as cleanliness of equipment used in patient care to reduce the occurrence of | | |wound infections leading to lower death rates. | |Health partnerships...
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...Cost of Health Benefits Human Resource Management BMGT 6311 June 03, 2015 Jason Timberlake Citation/Source Christianson, Jon B.; Trude, Sally. (2003). Managing Costs, Managing Benefits: Employer Decisions in Local Health Care Markets. Health Services Research, 2003, Vol.38(1p2), pp.357-373 Major Thesis Benefit packages and options are a hot topic for employers. One of the biggest, albeit expensive, options is healthcare benefits. This introduces us to the decision making process of health benefits, how these strategies evolve over time, and how these employer decisions impact the local health care systems. The study described in this article is a Community Tracking Study (CTS), which is a study of how healthcare changes over a given period of time and the effects of these changes the people of the surrounding community. For this particular article, the time frame was a six year period covering twelve randomly selected communities. Results from healthcare benefit surveys are normally reported by several outlets, to include popular press and academic journals. These surveys and their respective results provide important information regarding healthcare changes, the current state of state and federal health systems, and out of pocket costs associated with these changes. Over the six year period of this study, the data collected compares two roles that employers have played in the local health care system. One role is private while the other is public. The focus...
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...Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing University of Phoenix NUR/405 Sandra Byrd 3/10/14 University of Phoenix Material Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of 3 major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: | |Key health issues | | | |1-Events such as the anthrax attacks on the US soil (GAO, 2014). | |Perspective/goals |1-Protecting the public from unhealthy and unsafe environments. | |Role/functions |1-Evaluating health trends and risk factors of population groups and helping to determine priorities for | | |targeted interventions. | | ...
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...University of Phoenix Material Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of 3 major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: America’s Colonial Period and the New Republic | |Key health issues |Communicable diseases, environmental hazards, environmental sanitation, concerns for the health and care of | | |the people in the community | |Perspective/goals |The goal was how to prevent, understand, and control diseases | |Role/functions |In 1847, the American Medical Association (AMA) formed a hygiene committee to conduct sanitary surveys and to| | |develop a system to collect vital statistics. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, p 25). | |Health partnerships |The Howard Association of New Orleans, Louisiana, responded to periodic yellow fever epidemics...
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...University of Phoenix Material Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of 3 major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: 2001 No Child Left Behind Act | |Key health issues |This law was signed into law by George W. Bush on January 8, 2002 (Frontline, 2013). This law is a check | | |point or educational average that measures improvement or decline in student ability through grades 3-8 | | |annually in math and reading (Frontline, 2013). The key issue is children need to be as healthy as possible | | |to perform to the best of his or her ability in school. | |Perspective/goals |The perspective that all children are important and education should be available to all children. Regardless| | |of the economic status, race, language barrier, or community environment along with making sure schools...
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...Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of 3 major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: World War I | |Key health issues |Infectious and parasitic diseases, typhoid fever, diphtheria and scarlet fever were the main issues | | |addressed. | |Perspective/goals |The goal was to improve sanitation and reduce occurrences of the diseases. | |Role/functions |Keller and Strohschein (2012) states “in 1911 efforts to control typhoid fever in Yakima County, Washington, | | |and to improve health status in Guilford County, North Carolina, led to establishment of local health units | | |to serve local populations. Public health nurses were the primary staff members of local health departments. | | ...
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...Cultural Perspectives on Vaccination — History of Vaccines 6/2/15, 11:02 AM History of Vaccines A VACCINE HISTORY PROJECT OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA Vaccine Science En español History and Society Cultural Perspectives on Vaccination Debunked: The Polio Vaccine and HIV Link Development of the Immunization Schedule Disease Eradication Ethical Issues and Vaccines History of Anti-vaccination Movements Influenza Pandemics Scientific Method in Vaccine History The History of the Lyme Disease Vaccine U.S. Military and Vaccine History Vaccination Exemptions Vaccine Injury Compensation Programs Vaccine Testing & Vulnerable Human Subjects Cultural Perspectives on Vaccination Public opinions about vaccination include varied and deepseated beliefs, a result of the tension between divergent cultural viewpoints and value systems. Several key cultural perspectives on vaccination stem from (1) individual rights and public health stances toward vaccination, (2) various religious standpoints and vaccine objections, and (3) suspicion and mistrust of vaccines among different U.S. and global cultures and communities. Individual versus Public Health Stances Many countries require their citizens to receive certain immunizations. In the United States, state laws dictate mandatory vaccinations, such as those required for children to enter school.[1] Controversies over the efficacy, safety, and morality of compulsory immunization stem...
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... “[i]nfluence is the essence of leadership, and powerful leaders can have a substantial impact on the lives of followers and the fate of an organization” (p. 408). The personal values and ethics of the leaders of an organization often drive the values and ethical behavior of that organization (Yukl, 2010). Thus, it is paramount the values of organizational leaders are consistent and in line with the values of their organization (Yukl, 2010). Alignment of Personal and Organizational Values Our team researched and evaluated the organizational values and ethics of Sutter Health. Sutter Health is a not-for-profit network of physician organizations, hospitals and other health care providers (Sutter Health, 2008). Sutter Health focuses on enhancing the well-being of individual in the communities they serve through a not-for-profit commitment to compassion and excellence in health care services (Sutter Health, 2008). The Ethics Awareness Inventory of our...
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