Articles for the Topic "Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness"

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Homelessness and Health

2011-09-06T05:18:04

Serious personal health problems and flaws in health care systems are major contributors to contemporary homelessness. Some health problems—addictions, schizophrenia, major depression, physical disabilities—are distressingly obvious, particularly in persons living in public spaces, while others are less visible but equally insidious, undermining the capacity to maintain stable housing and function independently. In far too many cases, a fragmented health care system responded inadequately to the multiple needs of persons experiencing homelessness, who are indigent and typically uninsured (Authors).

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Common Health Issues Among People Experiencing Homelessness

2011-08-08T05:12:42

While PATH providers often do not have medical training, they regularly encounter consumers who face health issues. This section of Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness provides an overview of common health issues among people experiencing homelessness.

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Health Promotion and Disease Control

2011-09-06T05:04:10

This document includes information on hand washing and how to clean Up blood and other bodily fluids.

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Health Literacy

2011-09-06T04:32:56

Health literacy is the “ability to read, understand, and act on health care information” (Center for Health Care Strategies, 2005). In the context of health promotion, an individual’s health literacy is critical to his or her buy-in and maintenance of healthy behaviors. It is important to understand that not all of your clients will have the same degree of health literacy (Authors).

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Trauma 101

2011-08-03T01:31:28

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Health Conditions Traumatic Injuries

2011-09-06T04:27:18

This document includes guidance on what to look for and when to call for help for the following conditions: Alcohol and Drug Withdrawal, Allergic Reactions, Asthma, Burns, Cough, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Emergencies caused by cold, Emergencies caused by heat, Influenza, Foot Care, Heart Attack, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV, AIDS, Lice, Nosebleed, Scabies, Seizure, Signs of Dangerous Illness, Skin Problems, Sore Throat, Stroke, Stuffy or Runny Nose, Tuberculosis, Upper Respiratory Problems, Vomiting, and Wounds.

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Alcohol and Drug Withdrawal

2011-08-03T01:29:43

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

2011-09-06T02:33:29

Growing up in Philadelphia, the only contact that Richard Drain had with white people was with police, judges, and probation officers. Richard’s world started to expand when he went into the military. It was during the war in Vietnam, and the world was tumultuous. And though Richard wasn’t sent to Southeast Asia, his inner world was beginning to become tumultuous also. He began hearing voices. He became violent. He began to use drugs... Richard’s story in the preceding pages illustrates the complexity and tremendous difficulties one faces in living with mental illness, substance use disorders, and being homeless...Below is some basic information about co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (Authors).

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Motivational Interviewing

2011-09-07T02:19:11

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an empathic, person-centered, counseling approach that prepares people for change by helping them resolve ambivalence, enhance intrinsic motivation, and build confidence to change. Or, put more simply, helping people talk themselves into changing....The MI method is exceptionally compatible with a person-centered, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented perspective. It promotes hope and self-direction in the context of a safe, hospitable, and collaborative relationship. The approach is effective in enhancing people’s readiness, willingness, and ability to change, and their persistence in maintaining the change. The following pages introduce the spirit, principles, and basic skills of MI.

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: A Framework of Caring: Person-Centered Trauma-Informed Recovery-Oriented

2011-09-06T04:09:00

This section describes a framework of caring that emphasizes three key aspects of providing effective care for people experiencing homelessness: a person-centered, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented approach. While these three perspectives overlap a great deal, the pages that follow explore them as separate approaches. We hope that this framework of caring will inform and infuse the work of all who provide services to people experiencing homelessness, no matter what your title or discipline (Authors).

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Recommended Practices Involving Recovering Persons in Service Delivery

2011-09-06T05:24:54

Both the literature and in-depth interviews with PATH administrators and consumer practitioners are replete with the many advantages of hiring people with mental illnesses who experienced homelessness to engage their peers into treatment and services. Advantages accrue to the recipients of services, to the consumer practitioners themselves, and to the PATH-funded agencies they serve. We adapted the information below from ―Consumer Practitioners in PATH-Funded Programs, a report of the Consumer Involvement Workgroup published in August 2006 (Authors).

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Serving Specific Populations: Children and Families

2011-09-06T02:13:18

The pages that follow include some basic information about family homelessness and its consequences, specific areas that deserve attention when working with families, and suggested resources for additional information (Authors).

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Serving Specific Populations: LGBTQI2-S

2011-09-07T01:48:45

There are not many publications on specific issues related to LGBTQI2-S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersexed, and two-spirited) individuals experiencing homelessness. An overview of relevant topics is below to help raise awareness and to assist care providers in their work (Authors).

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Basic First Aid

2011-07-12T05:58:01

While PATH providers often do not have medical training, they regularly encounter consumers who face health issues. This section of Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness provides simple tips on how to take a temperature, pulse, and respiration rate. It also provides information about what symptoms indicate that the outreach worker should call for help.

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Allergic Reactions

2011-08-08T05:01:24

This article provides basic information about allergic reactions. This information is only for guidance; individuals not trained in medical care should always consult a licensed doctor with questions.

Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Dental Health

2011-09-06T02:43:10

The health of the teeth and gums is related to the health of the whole person, just as the well-being of a person relates to the health of the entire community. Because of this, the usual separation between dentistry and general health care is neither reasonable nor healthy (Authors).