Changes and Challenges in Health Care Essay

Healing Hospital: Importance in Patient Healing Science and technology are becoming a dominant factor in the health care. The profit motives and adaptation of technology sometimes raise questions about the lack of spiritual and emotional care given to patients. Giving personalized care, loving and caring environment will improve the patient outcome, satisfaction, and internal healing. Creating a healing environment is a huge sacrifice in this competitive and profit oriented economy. This essay…

1.1 Background of the study Health systems in low and middle-income countries continue to face considerable challenges in providing high-quality, affordable and universally accessible health care and information. Most of the developing countries are not able to adequately offer quality healthcare to its citizen. There are very few healthcare facilities in rural areas, of which most of them are poorly equipped and also few trained healthcare providers. In Kenya, the situation is no different.…

quality health care should be a goal for anyone working in the healthcare industry today. The National Committee for Quality Assurance ([NCQA], n.d.) estimates that around 90 million Americans are living with chronic, common health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, and asthma. Primary care providers are an important resource for these patients, acting as an entry point to the health care system, providing referrals if necessary, as well as coordinating the…

Historical basis (what are the circumstances from which the challenge arises? how did it come to be of importance in the health industry?) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed on August 21, 1996. Its primary goals were to make health care delivery more efficient and to increase the number of Americans with health insurance coverage, especially those who lost or were between jobs. Initially there were three main provisions of the Act: the portability…

important in maintaining one’s health. With changes in the law and policies that govern healthcare such as the Affordable Care Act recently enacted, more and more individuals are being afforded the opportunity to obtain health insurance and seek medical attention. Over the years however, an area in the healthcare industry that has been left behind in seeing significant changes in regards to healthcare access is in Mental Health. Although today more Americans have access to health insurance,…

Long term care and mental illness are health related issues that plague millions of people all across the world. Both present different but similar problems in that, there are limited resources to fulfill the needs of patients suffering from any illness falling under these scopes. Financing the long term care needs of these patients and finding quality health care facilities to carry out the required services can be a difficult challenge. To make sure that the industry can keep up with the…

opposing those views and seeing past those fundamentals of old age. Consequently, basing their views of aging on a more self-perceived attitude. According to Henchoz, et.al. there are “three social process applied by older people in assessing their health” (p. 282). These three process include social comparisons, which constructs its own dichotomous process and temporal comparison. The…

Obesity is a disease that creates mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional challenges for the individuals affected (Dreber, Reynisdottir, Angelin, & Hemmingsson, 2015). In an interview with a previously obese individual, RP discussed her medical history which included an array of co-morbid conditions. RP under when gastric bypass surgery two years prior to our interview, has since lost 100 pounds and is now in excellent health (RP, personal communication, April 23, 2016). In the interview…

Throughout the project, I have faced many challenges. Out of many challenges throughout, the most challenging challenge was on leadership. I do not have autocratic leadership where I can order others to do something. My leadership is more participative leadership, where I consult with group, making group decisions and sharing power, and authority. When the word “leadership” arise, I automatically think of autocratic leadership as I was taught that people who have leadership leads the group with…

work, grounded in the history and experience of efforts to effect social change, offers valuable lessons we can use to improve the quality of health care in our own communities. These lessons can inform the methods we use and the choices we make to steer our own community 's concerns. This framework for planning and action provides specific steps group can take to effectively address its healthcare issues. The ideas…