For e.g. if an individual has a heart attack then in this situation the need of the individual is to prevent them from getting worse. It helps people become experts in managing their own condition, therefore stops diseases developing. Government health promotion initiatives The Department of Health is a government department responsible for health protection, health improvement and health inequalities issues in England. So, in an action to improve the health of an individual the Dept of Health
Health promotion enables people to increase control over their health and to improve their health, which does not rely solely on one discipline of health but is rather a multidisciplinary scope that intertwines health education and health interventions and involves individuals, family, communities, state and federal government. The goal of health promotion is to enhance value in health, lessen the health risks, advocate for healthy lifestyles and settings, and respond to the underlying determinants of health. Implementation of Health Promotion Implementing health promotion is a key factor in promoting wellness and preventing illness. Chronic diseases in the United States have a major impact and
Primary prevention involves reducing risk factors, which result from injury and illness. It maintains health lifestyles to achieve the well being level. For the secondary prevention, it involves early screening of diseases for early intervention and treatments before the appearing of the symptoms. Some of these are mammograms and blood pressure screening (Mason, Leavitt & Chaffee, 2011). This process of screening can minimize the disabling effect on the lives of individuals and further diseases complications.
Reflection Journal: Cost/benefit of Sustaining Life Social and Organizational Issues in Healthcare Southern New Hampshire University Written by: Pratikkumar Patel The economic evaluation of health and environmental interventions for sustaining a life is becoming increasingly important. In the light of limited funding, such evaluations can provide an important tool to demonstrate the economic return of investments in intervention, compare the effectiveness of one intervention against another and help policy-makers allocate their limited budget. As I see my career as a Healthcare Administrator, it is important for me to know method of economic evaluation that values all benefits against all costs. The resulting cost-benefit ratio gives an indication of whether or not the benefits outweigh the costs of an intervention, and hence provides a decision-making tool with a broad societal perspective. In this journal, I will be reflecting about how insurance companies, hospitals, and patients can use Cost-benefit analysis for sustaining a life.
Health Information Exchange Professor Crossley Ebony Drummond October 21, 2013 Health Information Exchange The Electronic health information exchange helps medical professionals such as Nurses, doctors, pharmacist and other health care providers. This system also allows patients to properly access and safely shares the patient’s medical records efficiently, bettering speed, quality and the cost of patient care. Electronic health information exchange cannot replace intercommunication between the patient and the patient’s physician, but it can greatly improve the completeness of patients medical record in which cam effect the care positively, current medications and other information that is carefully abstracted during visits. Sharing patient records properly will better inform decision making at a certain point of care. This can allow providers to avoid re-admission, avoiding medication errors, lower duplication testing and improve diagnosis.
It helps to meet both quality and cost effective measures by patients. (Leatherman, 2013) United health care effectively communicates the performance results and feedback to the customers that provides the detailed process of decision making abilities. United Health care provides the important guidelines of preventing health issues at an initial stage which is important in healthy life style. It helps to make the patients healthy. United health group is committed to offer a wide range of health insurance plans and other benefits.
Benthamism is perhaps most famously associated with the idea of ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’, and applying this notion to the ethical problems we have discussed might suggest that the decision to release information could be supported if a consideration of the social benefits suggested they outweighed any personal disbenefits that might occur. Thus, the PCT’s (society’s) ability to check that the surgery has not falsified information would ensure that the practice’s results revealed the true state of how healthcare is delivered by the surgery and progress could be tracked over time to society’s benefit. This possibility would need to be considered against other possibilities including that patient confidentiality might be considered as compromised (although as the PCT would be bound by confidentiality clauses too, the issue, it could be claimed, is only a theoretical one which patients are not much concerned about). Unless confidentiality is strictly adhered to, then in future patients could become reluctant to divulge all necessary information with a consequence of more untreated illnesses and greater misery. Thus, the utilitarian scale here swings to favour either disclosure or a denial of access depending upon what the actual
DELIVER CARE SERVICES USING A PALLIATIVE APPROACH ASSIGNMENT Medical dictionaries define palliative care as care that affords relief, but does not cure, while the World Health Organisation (WHO) defines it as 'an approach that improves the quality of life of individuals and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention or relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual’. We can offer our clients a dignified death by allowing them to choose where they wish to be cared for, where they wish to die, and who they wish to care for them. As an active listener, we can hear what the client’s wishes are, and we can execute those wishes as best we can. It is important to ask questions so we can better understand those wishes. Considering each client is an individual, they are likely to have their own preferences and choices, both while they are in our care as well as after they have deceased.
Comparative effectiveness research has proven itself to be an important component in health care for identifying the best and most cost-effective interventions and standardizing their use. “A Comparative Effectiveness Research System (CER System) is a mechanism for synthesizing research about different medical interventions and translating it into guidelines for or restrictions on the use of different types of therapies, in an attempt to maximize good outcomes for patients” (Jonas, 278). The main goal of the CER System is to maintain and standardize quality and of health care and control the costs. In the comparative effectiveness research system, researchers can compare the benefits and harms of treatments, procedures, medications, and many more aspects in healthcare to see which one is more effective in preventing, diagnosing, treating, or even monitoring patients conditions. Treatments and procedures can be very different depending on the situation, and the comparative effectiveness research system develops the most effective approach to every situation.
In turn this reduces the number of mistakes made by professionals, which reduces the patients’ treatment and discharge times. Therefore this potentially lowers the cost of treatment in the NHS. Not only is inter-professional working beneficial to the patient but also to the health care professional as it changes their attitudes and perceptions to health care and enables them to establish common values and knowledge bases with other professions (Young et al, 2007). In turn this enhances the health care professionals’ motivation which is relayed to the patient, by improving their quality of care. Inter-professional working allows professionals to learn from each other and work outside their own remit, which enables professionals to support each other, which enhances the quality of care provided.