Healthcare is an activity that involves early protection, quick treatment and taking care of illness as well as mental and physical status by offering the necessary services. The traits of a given group of people in an area commonly referred to as demographics includes: the age, the gender, the race, the income, the status of employment, the disability, level of literacy, and means of travel. Unity Health Care was established in the year 1985 to offer the first services to people with no homes and homesteads surrounding shelters or the sidewalks of Columbia District. These include people with no insurance covers, those who are in poverty but are working, and those who are confined and were formerly confined to a particular area before. The institution has grown and presently is the biggest first health care organization in the area (Unity Health Care, 2007). Unity Health Care provides countrywide high standards services of human health with no bias to demographics. The facility has 29 provision centers situated in each division of the administrative units of Columbia. The facility caters for people and homesteads higher than 81,000 in a given year. The services are offered via channels of health service centers to the eight divisions of the administrative units of Columbia. There are fourteen health centers based for the social setting and at least nine areas of medical care for people without homes. The channels include medical units that are mobile, facilities attending to people with no homesteads, and Community Health Centers (Unity Health Care, 2007). Community volunteers are an asset towards facilitation of services of the Unity Health Care. They perform various activities that are not majored to the sick but essenti... ... middle of paper ... ...e community. The growth pattern of Unity Health Care is that of meeting the needs of the population in the government administrative units of health. There has been an increase in partnership with various agencies and thus a progress of the Unity Health Care. The center has been a media to unlock the door to literacy and has been proven to be a center of excellence (Unity Health Care, 2007). The services of Unity Health Care helps the community to deal with all forms of problems they may experience and formulate a working plan on how to progress towards a self reliant and promising living. Reference Art, B. Deroo, L. & De Maeseneer, J., (2007). Towards Unity for Health Utilizing Community- Oriented Primary Care in Education and Practice Education for Health, Volume 20, issue 2. Unity Health Care, (2007). Annual Report. Available at: www.unityhealthcare.org
Nirit Sharam and his wife, two kids, and elderly mother were looking to find a primary care physicians and community support to help with his child that had diabetes and his mother who had multiple health difficulties. They found a local hospital called Uniontown general hospital, The hospital operated Health and Wellness Centre that included both hospital run clinics and physician/specialist offices and a range of other health-related services (Case study in integration, 2014). The hospital Had different types of integration services such as vertical, clinical, and physician
During one of my undergraduate courses, “Community and Population Health”, I completed a paper on my community and access to healthcare. During the research and community outreach performed to meet the goals of the paper, my eyes were opened to the plight of small communities in regards to access to quality healthcare. This plight has become my passion, and has formed the basis for my vision of the Family Nurse Practitioner role.
Health status of an individual is influenced by the person himself his environment. Community based programs will make health education available outside traditional health care setting which is able to influence various units of the community including an individual , family or the community as a whole. An educational program organized in a community based setting such as school, worksite, health care facilities and the community it...
Despite the established health care facilities in the United States, most citizens do not have access to proper medical care. We must appreciate from the very onset that a healthy and strong nation must have a proper health care system. Such a health system should be available and affordable to all. The cost of health services is high. In fact, the ...
Healthy People are a nationwide program set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services with the objectives to promote health and prevent disease. The Healthy People program was first initiated in 1979, followed by Healthy People 1990, 2000 and 2010 with the same goals and objectives to promote health and prevent diseases. Due to the accomplishments that has been achieved in the previous years under this program, the Healthy People 2020 expanded or rather broadened their goals and objectives beyond disease prevention, health promotion and reducing health disparities, but to also eliminate healthcare disparities that has plagued this nation by the year 2020. The governing body, the United States Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for coordinating this program; track the progress of these objectives so as to improve the health of the population. Among the various goals set by this body, only three will be discussed in this paper to gain more insight as to what it entails. These include health equity to improve the health of all groups; social and physical environments that promote good health; and to promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behavior across life stages.
A community can be defined as a group of people, who live, learn, work and play in an environment at a given time. (Yiu, 2012, p.213) There are many factors that may influence the community’s development and health status. These can include resources available, accessibility, transportation, safety, community needs etc… These influences may combine together to form community strengths and as well as community challenges or weaknesses. As a community health care nurse, it is significant for us to assess and identify these strengths and challenges within the community in order for us to intervene and provide the appropriate needed health care services for the community members. This individual scholarly paper will explore and focus on one challenge issue identified from our group community assessment.
Transcribed from a talk given by Karen S. Palmer (1999). A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US. Retrieved from http://www.pnhp.org/facts/a-brief-history-universal-health-care-efforts-in-the-us
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This is more holistic approach in the sense that it ‘involves the promotion of health, preventing of disease, the treatment of illness, the care for those who are disabled and continuous developm...
Primary health care is the indispensable care based on the real – world, systematically sound, socially adequate technique and technology which made unanimously available to the families and every individuals in the community through their fully involvement where the community is capable to afford at a cost to uphold at every phase of their growth in the essence of self-reliance and self-government. Primary health care in international health is associated with the global conference held at Alma Ata in 1978; the conference that promoted the initiative health for all by the year 2000. “Primary health care defined broadly at Alma Ata emphasized universal health care across to all individuals and families , encouraged participation by community members in all aspects of health care planning and implementation and promoted the delivery of care that would be scientifically sound , technically effective , socially relevant and acceptable” (Janice E.Hitchcock,2003). Primary health care is commonly viewed as a level of care or as the entry point to the health care system for its client. It can also taken to mean a particular approach to care which is concerned with containing care, accessibility, community involvement and collaboration between other sectors. The primary health care policy has some principals that have been designed to work together and be implemented simultaneously to bring about a better health outcome for the entire society.
Primary health care is a philosophy of care based on social justice to achieve basic human rights (McMurray & Clendon 2015). It is crucial because it acts as an organising guideline for the activities of health professionals (McMurray & Clendon 2015). Health promotion is any combination of education and related organisational, economic, and political involvements designed to provide information to promote good health (Kumar & Preetha 2012). Multicultural Health and Support Service (MHSS) is one of the health promotion programs that aims to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in refugee and migrant communities, asylum seekers (Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health
The purpose of this community profile is to discuss a particular health improvement issue within a chosen community. A community can be defined using many different terms. You can belong to a community through religious beliefs. Through shared experiences or interests. You can belong to a political community where all involved share the same political interests. A community can also be defined as ‘a family’ a small village where many have lived most of their lives who share the same desire to belong to that community.
Volunteering in your local community is great way to give back and set a positive example at the same time. Let’s take a look at some of the problems in our community that affect many people.