Health Care Provision

Chronic diseases form the major reasons of morbidity and mortality throughout the globe. Chronic diseases – including diabetes, heart disease, diabetes, and respiratory diseases – have common major threat factors. These factors comprise of unhealthy diet, bodily inactivity, and inaccessibility to preventive care. There are confirmation-based interventions that are efficient in modifying these threats and afterward preventing disease.

A number of objectives were to be accomplished in the course of the internship in order to control and prevent chronic diseases. Firstly, the objective was aimed enlightening patients to increase bodily activity, reduce tobacco usage, and increase knowledge regarding how to efficiently transform eating habits and attain fit weights.

There exist a direct association amongst overweight and blood pressure and danger for hypertension. Since mostly weight loss is achieved by dietary intercessions, it is credible that some aspects of diet, when controlled, are the actual resultants of blood pressure decline. The objective was to educate patients regarding the dietary aspects, for instance, large intakes of sodium causes blood pressure. Diabetes is regularly caused by consumption of unbalanced diets and overweight therefore by advising patients concerning healthy and balanced diets helps prevent the disease. Equally, physical activities are known to control blood pressure levels and also constitute treatment of weight loss strategies. Respiratory among other cancers are additional chronic diseases that are continuously causing deaths worldwide, through educating patients regarding such issues as reducing tobacco consumption assist them acquire the awareness regarding its control (Bailey, 2002)..

In order to appropriately resolve the populace health needs, I had an objective of studying the pressing health requirements of the people. This is because the only way to rightfully help the patients is through research. I proposed to do my research through community and patient surveys.

Enhancing patient satisfaction, patient service and the patient experience, are additional objectives that I had set. Patient satisfaction can be achieved in a number of ways:

1. Striving to provide service on the patient schedule, not simply a schedule that is suitable for the institution. For instance, Avoid needlessly extended waits for laboratory results to be provided; this practice is impolite and even cruel.

2. Educating healthcare providers to avoid patient bullying since this even increases patient suffering

3. All employees need to be aware of how to handle patient complaints and concerns. This might mean finding the right person who can address the situation.

4. A great deal of what is incorrect in patient satisfaction and patient service is associated to poor language usage and to nonverbal “signs”, for instance, hospital staff evading eye contact with civilians in the infirmary to avoid being asked for help.

5. A censure-free environment results to improved precision and, finally, to better results. This is achieved through mutual understanding among the hospital staff.

By personally practicing these points in the course of the internship and also educating other care providers, I felt that I would have attained my and the course objectives

Primary health care points a broad variety of health services mainly often conveyed in community-founded settings. Primary health care seeks to intrude early to maximize health and welfare outcomes and avoid or slow the succession of ill health. My objective was to learn how to manage primary health care since;

•  the majority exchanges with the health structure happens in the community
•  the services are frequently a point of harmonization among other services
•  individuals continuing relations with health services are founded here
• They are habitually positioned in the society.

Additionally, an efficient primary health care structure is necessary in enhancing the health of a populace and decreasing inequalities. Research shows a sturdy primary health care structure is linked with reduced death rates, on top of less premature deaths from a variety of conditions (Primary Care Diabetes Europe, 2007).

References

Bailey, E. J. (2002). African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases. Westport, Conn: Bergin & Garvey.

Primary Care Diabetes Europe. (2007). Primary care diabetes. Kidlington, Oxford: Elsevier.