Download or read book Making the Connection the Importance of Engagement and Retention in HIV Medical Care written by Carol Tobias and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he starting point for this guideline is the point at which a woman has learnt that she is living with HIV and it therefore covers key issues for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights-related services and support for women living with HIV. As women living with HIV face unique challenges and human rights violations related to their sexuality and reproduction within their families and communities as well as from the health-care institutions where they seek care particular emphasis is placed on the creation of an enabling environment to support more effective health interventions and better health outcomes. This guideline is meant to help countries to more effectively and efficiently plan develop and monitor programmes and services that promote gender equality and human rights and hence are more acceptable and appropriate for women living with HIV taking into account the national and local epidemiological context. It discusses implementation issues that health interventions and service delivery must address to achieve gender equality and support human rights.

Download or read book Qualitative Communication Research Methods written by Thomas R. Lindlof and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are not many textbooks available (if any) that can match [this book's] intelligence.

Download or read book Social Emergence written by R. Keith Sawyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that societies are complex dynamical systems that can be understood through the concept of emergence.

Download or read book AIDS Patient Care and STDs written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Medical Health Humanities Politics Programs and Pedagogies written by Therese Jones and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a brief history of the Health Humanities Consortium and contains a toolkit for those academic leaders determined to launch inter- and multi-disciplinary health humanities programs in their own colleges and universities. It offers remarkable discussions and descriptions of pedagogical practices from undergraduate programs through medical education and resident training; philosophical and political analyses of structural injustices and clinical biases; and insightful and informative analyses of imaginative work such as comics, literary texts, and paintings. Previously published in Journal of Medical Humanities Volume 42, issue 4, December 2021 Chapters “Reflective Writing about Near-Peer Blogs: A Novel Method for Introducing the Medical Humanities in Premedical Education”, “Medical Students’ Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation”, “Reconsidering Empathy: An Interpersonal Approach and Participatory Arts in the Medical Humanities” and “The Health Benefits of Autobiographical Writing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Download or read book Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care written by Antoine Douaihy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is no exaggeration to say that motivational interviewing (MI) has transformed the culture of clinical practice and the way healthcare practitioners and researchers understand behavior change. MI, as an empirically supported therapeutic approach, has grown all across prevention, intervention, treatment, and research settings. Nowhere is the need to target behavior change more urgent than in people living with HIV. MI is a collaborative, person-centered clinical method that fosters a constructive practitioner-patient relationship and facilitates behavior change through eliciting and strengthening motivation for change. MI can be implemented as a stand-alone brief intervention, a prelude to treatment, or a platform for ongoing care. While MI has been shown to promote behavior change in a variety of healthcare settings and health behaviors in diverse cultures and communities, from substance use, safer sex, physical activity, medication and treatment adherence, more recently there has been an explosion of research that tailors MI to HIV care. This original and compassionate book, Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care, brings together researchers and healthcare practitioners who have considerably contributed to the science and clinical practice of MI in HIV care. It provides current, accessible review of the current status of the MI interventions, their clinical applications, and the evidence that supports them. Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care is essential reading for workers in the field of HIV, who will benefit from up-to-date research reviews and practical applications of MI across the continuum of HIV care.

Download or read book Retention in Health Improving HIV Retention Within the SF Community Health Network written by Miguel A Ibarra and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous work on HIV retention improvement has focused on improving access to care for communities who are either at-risk of falling out of care or who have difficulty engaging in medical care for the first time due to socio-cultural barriers. The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), with the support of Project PRIDE, a CDC three-year demonstration project geared towards supporting health departments in implementing public health strategies to reduce new HIV infections within the men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender communities, is seeking to improve HIV patient retention throughout the San Francisco Community Health Network (CHN). The Retention in Health Pilot Project at Tom Waddell Urban Health Center was developed as a model for Project PRIDE, and as a response to the Health Center's current Clinical Quality Improvement (CQI) plan to improve HIV patient data capturing and reporting, and the HIV patient's experience. A pilot project within the CHN was developed using academic detailing methods as a means of demonstrating the usefulness of retention work both in patient health outcomes and clinic reporting on HIV measures of care required by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The Retention in Health program promotes monthly panel management to identify patients in need of a viral load draw, drop-in visits with nurse staff to increase accessibility to primary care, and care navigation to support in the reconnecting of out of care or lost-to follow-up patients. The program was implemented in April 2017 and is currently in progress in the health center through the support of clinic staff and a capacity building specialist from Asian and Pacific Islander Health Forum.

Download or read book Integrating Data Systems to Improve HIV Care Engagement in King County WA written by Tigran Avoundjian and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuous engagement in HIV care and treatment is crucial for the health of persons living with HIV (PLWH) and for preventing HIV transmission to others. However, in the United States (US), care engagement, or retention in care, represents the biggest drop off in the HIV care continuum, which maps out the care process from HIV testing and diagnosis, linkage to and retention in HIV care, and ultimately achievement of viral suppression. Many health departments in the US use HIV surveillance data to facilitate HIV care engagement activities, a process known as data to care. While Data to Care programs have had some success, their effectiveness is hindered by the completeness and timeliness of HIV surveillance data. A novel approach to Data to Care uses real-time data exchange between HIV surveillance with external data sources, such as emergency department (ED) and inpatient (IP) hospitalization data and jail booking rosters, to improve the signal of Data to Care investigations, and provide a setting and an opportunity to re-engage PLWH in HIV care. Since real-time data exchange involves linking data sources that don't often have a shared unique person identifier, these programs should also consider the accuracy of the record linkage algorithms they utilize, in order to maximize their reach and efficiency. We investigated the effect of the use of real-time data exchange on HIV care engagement outcomes in two settings: emergency department and inpatient hospitals and in jails. First, we evaluated the impact of an existing ED/hospital-based health information exchange on HIV care outcomes. We compared the proportion of patients that had a viral load test in the 3 months and viral suppression in the 6 months after an alert-eligible ED visit/inpatient admission in the pre-intervention (01/20/13-01/20/15) and post-intervention (07/20/15-07/20/17) periods. To assess whether our pre/post results could be due to secular trends, we compared the difference between patients with an alert-eligible ED visit/IP admission to patients who had a visit outside of the alert window in both the pre-intervention and post-intervention periods. Next, we developed a new automated, real-time data exchange between public health HIV surveillance and county jail data to identify incarcerated PLWH and facilitate post-incarceration HIV care engagement efforts. A team of public health relinkage specialists and jail release planners used this data exchange to guide case conferences about patients who were virally unsuppressed or out-of-care and jointly developed a plan for re-engagement in care and treatment. We compared viral load testing within 3 months and viral suppression within 6 months after release from jail among PLWH released in the post-intervention period (04/01/18-11/01/18) to those released in the pre-intervention period (10/01/16-10/01/17) using Cox proportional hazards models. Finally, we compared the performance of record linkage algorithms commonly used by data exchanges commonly used in public health practice. We compared five deterministic algorithms and two probabilistic record linkage algorithms using simulations and a real-world scenario. We simulated pairs of datasets while varying the number of erroneous fields per record and overlap between these datasets. We matched datasets using each algorithm and calculated their recall (sensitivity) and precision (positive predictive value). In a real-world scenario, HIV and STD surveillance data from King County, WA were matched to identify PLWH who had a syphilis diagnosis. We used manual review to define a gold standard and calculate recall and precision. In our evaluation of an ED/hospital-based health information exchange, patients in the post-intervention period were 1.08 times more likely to have a viral load test within 3 months after an ED visit/IP admission (95% CI: 0.97, 1.20) and 1.50 times more likely to achieve viral suppression within 6 months after an ED visit/IP admission (95% CI: 1.27, 1.76). However, there was a similar pre/post increase in both HIV care engagement (DID: 1.00, 95% CI: 0.84, 1.18) and viral suppression (DID: 1.01, 95% CI: 0.84, 1.20) among patients with visits outside of the alert window. After implementation of a real-time data exchange between HIV surveillance and jail booking data coupled with HIV care coordination between health department and jail release planners, viral load testing within 3 months after release from jail increased by 35% (95% CI: 0.84, 2.18) and viral suppression within 6 months after release from jail increased by 37% (95% CI: 0.82, 2.30), but these differences were not statistically significant. In our simulation study, we found that probabilistic algorithms maintained a high recall at nearly all data quality levels, while being comparable to deterministic algorithms in terms of precision. Deterministic algorithms typically failed to identify matches in scenarios with low data quality. In the real-world scenario, probabilistic algorithms had the lowest trade-off between recall and precision. The results of this dissertation indicate that ED/hospital-based data exchange provides substantial opportunities to interact with PLWH who are poorly engaged in HIV care. However, the observed increase in HIV re-engagement and viral suppression after implementation of this data exchange may reflect secular trends resulting from diverse interventions of which this program was only one. Real-time health information exchange with emergency departments and hospitals can identify PLWH who are inadequately engaged with care and facilitate D2C efforts, but more efforts are needed to improve the effectiveness of reengagement interventions linked to real-time D2C. Implementation of a real-time data exchange between HIV surveillance and jail booking rosters resulted in a trend towards improved post-incarceration HIV care outcomes for incarcerated PLWH who are virally unsuppressed/out-of-care in King County. Real-time data exchange between health departments and county jails is a promising strategy for identifying incarcerated PLWH to support care coordination and improving post-incarceration HIV care engagement. Finally, in our simulation study on record linkage algorithms, we found that probabilistic algorithms maximize the number of true matches identified, while still maintaining high precision. Public health activities that rely on the integration of multiple data sources to target intervention delivery should utilize probabilistic algorithms to reduce gaps in the coverage of interventions and maximize their reach.

Download or read book Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health and substance use disorders affect approximately 20 percent of Americans and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Although a wide range of evidence-based psychosocial interventions are currently in use, most consumers of mental health care find it difficult to know whether they are receiving high-quality care. Although the current evidence base for the effects of psychosocial interventions is sizable, subsequent steps in the process of bringing a psychosocial intervention into routine clinical care are less well defined. Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders details the reasons for the gap between what is known to be effective and current practice and offers recommendations for how best to address this gap by applying a framework that can be used to establish standards for psychosocial interventions. The framework described in Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders can be used to chart a path toward the ultimate goal of improving the outcomes. The framework highlights the need to (1) support research to strengthen the evidence base on the efficacy and effectiveness of psychosocial interventions; (2) based on this evidence, identify the key elements that drive an intervention's effect; (3) conduct systematic reviews to inform clinical guidelines that incorporate these key elements; (4) using the findings of these systematic reviews, develop quality measures - measures of the structure, process, and outcomes of interventions; and (5) establish methods for successfully implementing and sustaining these interventions in regular practice including the training of providers of these interventions. The recommendations offered in this report are intended to assist policy makers, health care organizations, and payers that are organizing and overseeing the provision of care for mental health and substance use disorders while navigating a new health care landscape. The recommendations also target providers, professional societies, funding agencies, consumers, and researchers, all of whom have a stake in ensuring that evidence-based, high-quality care is provided to individuals receiving mental health and substance use services.

Download or read book Linkage Engagement and Retention in HIV Care written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Optimization of Behavioral Biobehavioral and Biomedical Interventions written by Linda M. Collins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a framework for development, optimization, and evaluation of behavioral, biobehavioral, and biomedical interventions. Behavioral, biobehavioral, and biomedical interventions are programs with the objective of improving and maintaining human health and well-being, broadly defined, in individuals, families, schools, organizations, or communities. These interventions may be aimed at, for example, preventing or treating disease, promoting physical and mental health, preventing violence, or improving academic achievement. This volume introduces the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), pioneered at The Methodology Center at the Pennsylvania State University, as an alternative to the classical approach of relying solely on the randomized controlled trial (RCT). MOST borrows heavily from perspectives taken and approaches used in engineering, and also integrates concepts from statistics and behavioral science, including the RCT. As described in detail in this book, MOST consists of three phases: preparation, in which the conceptual model underlying the intervention is articulated; optimization, in which experimentation is used to gather the information necessary to identify the optimized intervention; and evaluation, in which the optimized intervention is evaluated in a standard RCT. Through numerous examples, the book demonstrates that MOST can be used to develop interventions that are more effective, efficient, economical, and scalable. Optimization of Behavioral, Biobehavioral, and Biomedical Interventions: The Multiphase Optimization Strategy is the first book to present a comprehensive introduction to MOST. It will be an essential resource for behavioral, biobehavioral, and biomedical scientists; statisticians, biostatisticians, and analysts working in epidemiology and public health; and graduate-level courses in development and evaluation of interventions.

Download or read book Fundamentals of HIV Medicine 2019 written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists -- updated with everything they need to know in 2019! Assembled by the leading educational organization in HIV medicine, AAHIVM's Fundamentals of HIV Medicine 2019 is an end-to-end clinical resource for the treatment of individuals with HIV/AIDS. It offers state-of-the-art practical advice for physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and other professionals working in the care of HIV patients. Along with updates to the classic domains of HIV medicine, this new edition features expanded coverage of emerging topics, including: behavioral and therapeutic interventions to HIV prevention; updates on the pursuit of a cure; new DHHS and IAS guidelines and their clinical implications; and the myriad issues around aging with HIV. Embodying the American Academy of HIV Medicine's commitment to excellence in the care of seropositive patients, Fundamentals of HIV Medicine 2019 is must-have for health professionals across HIV care, treatment, and prevention.

Download or read book Aging and Caregiving written by David E. Biegel and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides human service practitioners, policy makers, researchers and students with a comprehensive analysis of the role and function of family caregiving in societies with dependent elderly populations. It begins with an overview of theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues in caregiving. A number of empirical studies which address these issues are then presented. Finally the contributors explore the implications for social policy resulting from our understanding of caregiving knowledge, identify gaps and provide new studies which address these gaps, give direction to practice interventions and illuminate implications for public policy.

Download or read book A Guide to the Clinical Care of Women with HIV written by Jean R. Anderson and published by DIANE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT ITEM -OVERSRTOCK SALE-- Significantly reduced price. Edited by Jean R. Anderson. This guide addresses the health care needs unique to women with HIV. It targets clinicians who provide primary care to women as well as those seeking an understanding of how to take care of women with HIV/AIDS. This guide includes tables, figures, color plates, resources, references, and indices. This 2005 edition includes new chapters on international issues and nutrition. Edge indexed."

Download or read book Public Health Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Supporting re engagement in HIV treatment services written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This policy brief provides an overview of the complexities and challenges of people re-engaging in HIV treatment services. It highlights person-centred interventions that address the reasons for disengagement, the importance of providing support at re-engagement tailored to individual needs and country examples of tracing and re-engagement interventions. The brief summarizes WHO guidance and emphasizes the importance of implementing relevant recommendations to support adherence, continuous engagement, tracing and sustained re-engagement. This brief aims to assist health policy-makers, health ministries, practitioners, implementers and communities to improve understanding of the various challenges and solutions for re-engaging individuals to support better health outcomes. It provides guidance on supporting people living with HIV to sustain re-engagement without further interruptions in treatment and care. The goal is to reduce HIV-related morbidity and mortality, prevent new infections and the risk of drug resistance.