Learning Outcomes

1. Learning Outcomes • Differentiate health care services based on primary, secondary, and tertiary disease prevention categories. • Describe the functions and purposes of the health care agencies outlined in this chapter. • Identify the roles of various health care professionals.

2. Learning Outcomes (cont'd) • Describe the factors that affect health care delivery. • Describe frameworks for the delivery of nursing care. • Compare various systems of payment for health care services.

3. Types of Health Care Services • Primary prevention • Health promotion • Illness prevention • Secondary prevention • Diagnosis • Treatment

4. Primary prevention • Health promotion programs addresses areas such as: • adequate and proper nutrition • weight control, exercise and stress reduction • Health promotion activities: role of clients role in maintaining their own health and encourage them to maintain the highest level of wellness they can achieve

5. Primary prevention • illnesses prevention programs may be directed at the client or the community and involve such practice as: • providing immunization • identifying risk factor for illnesses • early detection of disease :routine screening .e.g. mammograms screening, education to Brest cancer

6. Types of Health Care Services • Tertiary prevention • Rehabilitation: • Health restoration • Palliative care:

8. Primary Prevention • Healthy People 2010 • Increase quality and years of healthy life • Achieve health equity and eliminate health disparities • Create healthy environment for everyone • Promote health and quality life across the life span

9. Primary Prevention (cont'd) • Address adequate and proper nutrition, weight control and exercise, and stress reduction • Emphasize the important role clients play in maintaining their own health and encourage to maintain the highest level of wellness clients can achieve

10. Secondary Prevention • Hospitals • Emergency care • Intensive care • Around-the-clock care • Health promotion services • Early detection • Routine screening

11. Tertiary Prevention • Help people move to their previous level of health • Highest level they are capable of given their current health status • Rehabilitation to function adequately in the physical, mental, social, economic, and vocational areas of their lives • Outreach programs for mental health illness

12. Tertiary Prevention (cont'd) • Palliative care • Providing comfort and treatment • End-of-life care may be conducted in many settings including the home

13. Health Care Agencies • Government agencies • Public health services • Local health departments develop programs to meet the health needs of the people, providing necessary nursing and staff to carry out these programs, continue evaluating the effectiveness of the program, and monitoring changing needs

14. Health Care Agencies (cont'd) • Government agencies • State health organizations are responsible for assisting local health departments • Physicians’ offices • Routine health screening • Diagnosis and treatment

15. Health Care Agencies (cont'd) • Ambulatory care centers • Diagnostic treatment facilities • Minor surgery • Occupational health clinics • Run by companies for employees • Health promotion activities

16. Health Care Agencies (cont'd) • Hospitals • Acute inpatient services • Outpatient and ambulatory care • Emergency department • Hospice care • Subacute care • Variation of inpatient care • Technically complex treatments

17. Health Care Agencies (cont'd) • Extended care facilities (formerly called nursing homes) • Independent living • Assisted, skilled, extended care facilities • Rehabilitation

18. Health Care Agencies (cont'd) • Retirement and assisted-living centers • For clients unable to stay at home, but do not require hospital or nursing home

19. Health Care Agencies (cont'd) • Rehabilitation centers • Restore or recuperate health • Drug and alcohol • Home health care agencies • Education to clients and families • Care to acute, chronic, or terminally ill

20. Health Care Agencies (cont'd) • Rural care hospitals • Federal funding • Services for rural residents

21. Health Care Agencies (cont’d) • Day-care centers • Infants or children • Adults that cannot be left at home • Hospice services • Care for dying in home or facility • Improve or maintain quality of life until death

22. Health Care Agencies (cont'd) • Crisis centers • Emergency services for life crises • Counseling and support • Mutual support or self-help groups • Health problems • Life crises

23. Health Care Professionals • Nurses • Alternative (complementary) care providers • Case manager • Dentists • Dietitians • Nutritionists

24. Figure 6-6 Although all members of the health care team individualize care for the client based on the expertise of their own discipline, there are areas of overlap facilitated through teamwork.

25. Health Care Professionals (cont'd) • Alternative (complementary care providers) • Dentists • Nurses • Nutritionists • Occupational therapists • Paramedics/EMTs • Pharmacists

26. Health Care Professionals (cont'd) • Physical therapists • Physicians • Physician assistants • Podiatrists • Respiratory therapists • Social workers • Spiritual support personnel • Unlicensed assistive personnel (UAPs)

27. Factors that Affect Health Care Delivery • Increasing number of elderly • Advances in technology • Economics • Women’s health issues • Uneven distribution of services

28. Factors that Affect Health Care Delivery (cont'd) • Access to health insurance • Homeless and the poor • Demographic changes