This family is coming to the clinic today with the symptoms of difficulty breathing, wheezing that can be heard across the room etc . Possible causes could be 1. Patient and family suffering from economic hardship 2. There may be a possible mental health challenges with the mother 3. Nonadherence to medication or 4. There is a possible child abuse or neglect issues. child suffering from bronchial asthma needs to be under constant medical supervision. According to Nicholson, Strazdins, Brown, & Bittman, socio-economy can have an immediate impact on a child’s health and development. If economic hardship is the case in this family, then the they will need help in this area:
It is a possibility that a child’s deteriorated health condition could …show more content…
Whenever children are involved in participating in their treatment plan, it promotes adherence. To improve adherence in children, there should be a phone contact from physician office to patient home for courteous appointment reminders. Also, pharmacy’s will call patient whenever prescription is ready for pickup. In this patient, providing a list of generic brand medication, dosages, common side effects will enhance compliance to treatment. Both child and the mother may need education about asthma to ensure that they have all the information they need for a better health outcome.
This patient will need transportation for the ongoing health care and medication access for the chronic disease. Without transportation a person will not be able to access appropriate healthcare that is needed. Distance to health care can impact on an individual quality of life. Georgia Medicaid provide non-emergency medical transportation services for families to access medical service needed. This will ensure that the patient can keep their appointments and help reduce the cost of transportation to and from appointments and medication pickups center.
In addition, Grady hospital is one of the hospital that has asthma and allergy clinic that provides free high quality care to the indigent and uninsured population in Georgia. Introducing the patient to all these services that are available will support the family to have a good health
It is a possibility that a child’s deteriorated health condition could …show more content…
Whenever children are involved in participating in their treatment plan, it promotes adherence. To improve adherence in children, there should be a phone contact from physician office to patient home for courteous appointment reminders. Also, pharmacy’s will call patient whenever prescription is ready for pickup. In this patient, providing a list of generic brand medication, dosages, common side effects will enhance compliance to treatment. Both child and the mother may need education about asthma to ensure that they have all the information they need for a better health outcome.
This patient will need transportation for the ongoing health care and medication access for the chronic disease. Without transportation a person will not be able to access appropriate healthcare that is needed. Distance to health care can impact on an individual quality of life. Georgia Medicaid provide non-emergency medical transportation services for families to access medical service needed. This will ensure that the patient can keep their appointments and help reduce the cost of transportation to and from appointments and medication pickups center.
In addition, Grady hospital is one of the hospital that has asthma and allergy clinic that provides free high quality care to the indigent and uninsured population in Georgia. Introducing the patient to all these services that are available will support the family to have a good health