South County Community health team (CHT) is small agency housed in the larger South County Hospital that works with Primary Care Physicians to assess and assist at risk patients. Care Transformation Collaborative funds six employee positions on the CHT through the department of health insurance commission and the executive office of health and human services to “promote integrated, patient and family centered care data driven quality improvement, and prepare practices to perform successfully under Alternative payment models” (CTC, 2014, p. 2) .The CHT is compiled of six women ranging from 22-60 years of age. All of which are White except myself of Native American and African American decent which mirrors the demographic in Washington county that is served. The team consists of one Data Analysis, a LICSW, a Behavioral Health Care Manager (BHCM), a team lead and two Community Health Workers (CHW). My role on the CHT is a part time visiting CHW with an active caseload of 25 clients. I work closely with clients to provide resources to help them manage their care and wellbeing. Patients get referred from their Primary Care Physician that have high risk factors reported by the patient’s insurance company. The CHT works alongside Nurse Care Managers in Primary Care provider offices to assist clients that have complex medical conditions, behavioral health issues, substance abuse complications, social disorders. The goal of the South County Community health team is to improve
Communication can be used in many ways by using different methods. Individuals from different backgrounds can communicate by doing whatever is comfortable to them, whether it’s communicating in their own language or if they can’t verbally communicate they may use sign language. Individuals could use body language and facial expressions to express their needs or what they would like.
A. There are many potential barriers to communication such as language barriers, it can be hard to communicate with someone who does not understand your language or vice versa. Also cultural differences may be a problem as different communication aids such as touching, eye contact, or tone, which may be acceptable in one culture may not be
Disability- many people suffer from discrimination when they have a disability. This is because they are different from others and can not physically do the things others can. This leaves them left out, not been able to socialize and feeling upset. For example if there was a man in a wheel chair in an office with his work colleges and everyone ignored him because he was different this would be discrimination.
and they should be used when doing personal care, handling waste, a change of activity to protect the carer and the individual.
* Give the person lots of encouragement and try not to dwell on things that do not go well.
Obesity was significantly more prevalent amongst female African Americans in this community. With the highest rate affecting women between the ages of 45 to 64. Obesity was also higher amongst Black females who’s educational attainment was lower
Over the year both positive and negative influences have influenced my learning. The skill I have developed for learning is my aspiration is to become a midwife, this influences my learning in the way that it gives me the hunger to learn new things and improve my knowledge and grades. By improving my knowledge I will be able to go onto the next stage of my development. I believe that if I did not have such a desire to be a midwife, it would affect my learning by creating a mental blockage which would stop my ability to take things in and learn as I would become lazy and not interested from the lack of direction in my life. As soon as I realised what I wanted to do as a career, it really highlighted my priorities and I found that I have
Health Promotion This is the process of allowing people to have more control over their health as this will help improve their health and well-being. It focuses on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and interventions. Health promotion is how health is shown for example to challenge obesity change 4 life is used so people can have a guidance on how to make their lifestyle healthier. It also shows that health promotion is aimed at individuals whose health is at risk from any diseases from lifestyle factors, which lets individuals take control over their health. By being able to have control over their health it shows individuals what may have happened if nothing was done of it
Communicable disease outbreak occurs when there is a larger then expected incidence of a disease. It can affect a small group or thousands of people in a region. In some instances even just two independent cases can lead to an outbreak, eventually leading to an epidemic, or pandemic which refers to a global outbreak. Measles is a communicable disease that is highly contagious according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The good news is that it is a preventable disease, because there is a vaccine that is available to prevent people from contracting it. One complication that arises is when some people
P1 – Explain potential hazards and the harm that may arise from each in a health and social care setting.
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D1) Make recommendations in relation to the identified hazards to minimise the risks to the service user.
In early April 2013 a measles outbreak was discovered in North Carolina. By mid-May the outbreak had been identified in Stokes and Orange Counties via 23 active cases. Every case was linked back to a family that had spent 3 months in India and had not been vaccinated. By the 16th of April the state laboratory of Public Health was able to confirm the diagnosis, with the last known case being confirmed on May 7th. The investigation of this outbreak revealed 4 patients with a confirmed diagnosis that had received one of vaccination of the two part series. The other 19 cases had not ever been vaccinated.
A non-communicable disease (NCD) is defined as a disease which is not infectious. Such diseases may result from genetic or lifestyle factors. Such diseases may result from genetic or lifestyle factors. Current evidence indicates that four types of NCDs (i.e. cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases) account for almost two third of all deaths globally, with 80 per cent of these deaths occurring in low-income and middle-income countries. NCDs are a leading threat to health and development. Yet, these diseases are preventable. By eliminating shared risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and the harmful use of alcohol, almost 80 per cent of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes and over a third of all cancers could be prevented. In addition, improved disease management can reduce morbidity, disability and death and contribute to better health outcomes. Overall, proven cost-effective strategies do exist to prevent and control this growing burden.
Honesty is something I value in another person, and I have struggled with service users who haven’t been honest about something. I have tried hard to understand the reasons why someone would not be honest with me. Usually after I have spoken to another member of staff, and heard their input and theories I can begin to see why and move on from the incident.