Health is essential to living a comfortable and fulfilling life‚ however it’s not granted to everyone as health is determined by various economic and social factors‚ also known as social determinants of health. Social determinants of health affect the health of the individual‚ communities and jurisdiction as a whole; consequently it is in charge of determining the extent to which a person can access physical‚ social and personal resources to health (Hobbs & Rice 2013‚ p.456). Understanding social
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Home Health versus Hospice There are a few similarities and differences in the home health and hospice field. Some of the similarities are home health and hospice are covered 100% by Medicare and both of them are care in the patient’s home. Some of the differences are you have to be homebound‚ you do not have to be homebound‚ one is curative/restorative care and the other is palliative/comfort care. Home health and hospice are about caring for the patient’s and their families. In home health
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Orchard View Care Home was closed down in October 2011‚ 19 vulnerable adults died due to poor practices. A five-week inquest heard how some residents were given wrong doses of medication‚ and left soiled and unattended due to staff shortages. Call bells were also often not answered for long periods or could not be reached by elderly people living at the home. Several examples of poor care and neglect were revealed during the inquest‚ including: A woman who had not stood for six months was pulled
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Program Evaluation Final Johannes Kieding Simmons School for Social Work Program Evaluation Final Introduction and Background The Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is one of the academic teaching hospitals of Harvard and Tufts Medical Schools. The hospital has many different departments‚ including primary care clinics‚ inpatient psychiatry‚ outpatient psychiatry‚ as well as specialty clinics such as the Latino‚ Haitian‚ Portuguese‚ and the Asian linguistic teams. The CHA has three main locations:
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Response of Slow Constipation to Prucalopride: a case study. A seventy-two year old gentleman presented with a history of constipation for the past 6-7 years. Since his retirement from last 2 years‚ his constipation had increased. Medical history revealed that he was a known case of Diabetes and on oral hypoglycemic medications with diabetes under control. There were no alarming features like weight loss‚ fever‚ blood in stool or anorexia. Post retirement‚ his physical activity was reduced. Furthermore
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Case Study: Anxiety Answer Sheet Diagnosing Tina Student Name: Diagnosing Generalized Anxiety Disorder: 1a. Refer to the DSM-IV checklist for generalized anxiety disorder. Which of Tina’s symptoms meet any of the criteria? (Be sure to match specific symptoms with specific criteria.) Tina’s symptoms match all four of the criteria in the DSM-IV checklist for generalized anxiety disorder. Tina worries constantly something is going to happen to her twins which is in correlation with the first criteria
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The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is the largest county-operated mental health department in the United States‚ directly operating programs in more than 85 sites‚ and providing services via contract program and DMH staff at approximately 300 sites co-located with other County departments‚ schools‚ courts and other organizations. The goals are to: Provide quality‚ strength based mental health services to children. Help children achieve success at school and in the community. Strengthen
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Introduction The Primary Community and Continuing Care (2009) state that public health nurses (PHNs) provide preventative and curative care within specific geographical regions to people of various age groups. Mulcahy et al (2012) describe PHNs as ‘population based generalist nurses’. Public health nurse’s areas of care vary from wound dressing clinics to postnatal home visits. Placement in this area involved experiences such as the addiction clinic‚ breastfeeding clinic and first postnatal visits
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Practice context: Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is a company that provides health care services for a fee often monthly‚ bi-annually‚ or annually. It is also known as medical insurance‚ and acts as an intermediary between individuals‚ organizations‚ and health care professionals (including doctors‚ nurses‚ and hospitals). Health Maintenance Organizations is managed by medical doctors and nurses who work as case managers (HealthCare.gov‚ 2017). Case Management is a collective process that
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Case Study- The BBDE Health Center: A Case Study of Business Ethics 1. What decisions or actions taken by the individuals in this case are questionable? The first problems identified in this case was that the company had no laws and regulations. No one was willing to stand up to the CEO and tell him where he was going wrong. The CEO is more concern about the color of the carpet laid than setting corporate strategies. He ignored all the important issues in the
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