This reflection paper concentrates on my volunteered experience at “Neville’s Family House (NFH). Family House, established in 1983, is a non-profit licensed organization with four similar houses in different Pittsburgh’s locations: Neville, McKee, Shadyside, and University Place. Each Family House provides a special home away from home atmospheres for patients and their families who must travel to Pittsburgh treatment (s) of serious or life-threatening illnesses. By providing an affordable and supportive, home-like environment, Family House strives to make a difference in the quality of families’ lives while they are in the Pittsburgh area. As a house volunteer, I worked two hours’ increment shifts at Neville’s Family House.
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Disparities in Health, Mental Health, D &A and the patterns of poverty are topics that reflect what Family House’s population are experiencing. All of the families and individuals that arrive at any Family House site, daily, are facing the cost of a system that does not value health and these individuals are left with nowhere to go for financial and emotional support. Guest speaker Victor Papale discussed five cause areas that caused poverty. Included in this list were health and Americans fundamentally rights to an effective health care system. More than half of Family House’s clients have serious mental illness and are enduring a diagnosis of chronic illness or diseases. According to Papale, our current health system excludes lost cost treatments, we have replaced the hospital bed with the jail cell and the homeless shelter. In several conversations, we discussed the outcomes of states looking to save money, which mostly means that mental health services and health insurance services are pared away. As a result, agencies such as Family House are overflowed with the demands, but not enough beds and federally support. Authors Heilbroner and Thurow discussed health care disparities by connecting the economy, employment and health coverage under the umbrella of “inequality.” The loss of jobs during the recession, as in previous recessions and other, less profound economic …show more content…
A., Yoon, S, P. W., & Kaufmann, & Wilkinson, R. G., & Pickett, K. (2010))." The population of Family House, sadly, represent this definition. Most individuals were experiencing taught finical crises or excluded life necessities to pay or afford medical bills. These individuals exemplify the middle-working class and as the burden of illness, premature death, and disability continue to disproportionately affect certain populations: concepts such as Obamacare seems apprehensive as co-payments and deductions continue to increase. Reform for this population will only work when prices are transparent. For example, cyclical economic contractions, innovations in medical technology, shifts in public policy, and local market factors can result in different, and sometimes contradictory, pressures on the supply and organization of health care delivery systems, suppliers, and practitioners (Cost of not caring: Nowhere to go. 2015). Not only are clients enduring financial hardships, physicians and social service workers are experiencing high burn-outs. As a result, clients are left with untreated medical illness, face with multiple surgeries within different hospitals, which doubles the cost and increase emotional
Disparities in Health, Mental Health, D &A and the patterns of poverty are topics that reflect what Family House’s population are experiencing. All of the families and individuals that arrive at any Family House site, daily, are facing the cost of a system that does not value health and these individuals are left with nowhere to go for financial and emotional support. Guest speaker Victor Papale discussed five cause areas that caused poverty. Included in this list were health and Americans fundamentally rights to an effective health care system. More than half of Family House’s clients have serious mental illness and are enduring a diagnosis of chronic illness or diseases. According to Papale, our current health system excludes lost cost treatments, we have replaced the hospital bed with the jail cell and the homeless shelter. In several conversations, we discussed the outcomes of states looking to save money, which mostly means that mental health services and health insurance services are pared away. As a result, agencies such as Family House are overflowed with the demands, but not enough beds and federally support. Authors Heilbroner and Thurow discussed health care disparities by connecting the economy, employment and health coverage under the umbrella of “inequality.” The loss of jobs during the recession, as in previous recessions and other, less profound economic …show more content…
A., Yoon, S, P. W., & Kaufmann, & Wilkinson, R. G., & Pickett, K. (2010))." The population of Family House, sadly, represent this definition. Most individuals were experiencing taught finical crises or excluded life necessities to pay or afford medical bills. These individuals exemplify the middle-working class and as the burden of illness, premature death, and disability continue to disproportionately affect certain populations: concepts such as Obamacare seems apprehensive as co-payments and deductions continue to increase. Reform for this population will only work when prices are transparent. For example, cyclical economic contractions, innovations in medical technology, shifts in public policy, and local market factors can result in different, and sometimes contradictory, pressures on the supply and organization of health care delivery systems, suppliers, and practitioners (Cost of not caring: Nowhere to go. 2015). Not only are clients enduring financial hardships, physicians and social service workers are experiencing high burn-outs. As a result, clients are left with untreated medical illness, face with multiple surgeries within different hospitals, which doubles the cost and increase emotional