Personalized Nursing and Health Care: Advancing Positive . . . Personalized medical care should not only improve the patient’s situation by providing the right diagnosis, prevention or treatment; it also needs to be tailored according to individual characteristics, situation, context, and environment to support people’s health power, health careers and thus, their self-management and independent living
ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND DISPARITIES IN ACCESS Disparities in Timely Access to Care Timely access to care is important for ensuring desirable health outcomes, reducing financial burden from seeking nonnetwork care and possibly more distant healthcare, and improving patients’ perception of need and experience with the healthcare system
How NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Homes Address Disparities Limited access to care is a key contributor to disparities, and enhanced access is an NCQA PCMH cornerstone that helps to address disparities Core Access Continuity Standards: PCMHs assess patients’ access to care, including poor access indicators such as high emergency department use and limited transportation
The Medical Model and Person-Centered Care: A Blended Approach Is there a way to blend the medical model and person-centered care and create a model of care that recognizes the medical and psychosocial needs of each person? One place to start is our everyday language
Personalized Strategies to Activate and Empower Patients in . . . We discuss relevant Affordable Care Act payment and delivery policy reforms and how they affect patient activation and empowerment Such policies include Accountable Care Organizations and value-based purchasing, patient-centered medical homes, and the community health benefit
Eliminating health care inequities through strengthening . . . The model illustrates how access occurs along a continuum and is dependent on five dimensions: approachability, acceptability, availability and accommodation, affordability, and appropriateness 2, 36 The model conceptualizes access by integrating demand‐side (e g , predisposing factors, knowledge, and attitudes) 37 and supply‐side (e g
A Model for Monitoring Access - Access to Health Care in . . . Personal and cultural barriers may inhibit people who need medical attention from seeking it or, once they obtain care, from following recommended posttreatment guidelines These barriers interact in complicated ways