Provide a current and established definition of health equity. Includes 2 preference from within the past 5 year’s related to your definition of health equity. With your definition in mind, elaborate a strategy for promoting health equity that you, as future mental health ARNP practice could implemented
Improving the health of all individuals is vital Thus, health equity is perceived by Nisreen, Chaaban, and Raad (5) as the realization of the maximum health level by all members of the society. Health equity is associated with availabilities of opportunities to access quality health care to the highest existing standards that enable individuals to lead healthy lives without subjection to evitable, unfair and unjust discrimination. Health equity dictates that a group of patients under similar circumstances ought to be treated equally while those different should receive different care according to their level of requirement as indicated by Patti and Straehle (159). The focus is on individuals’ capacity to access qualified physicians, proper medication, and preventive measures should not be dictated by politics, social or economic status but on the fact that they are all human beings entitled to provision of health care.
The uppermost level of health is rarely achieved as several people especially minorities find themselves stripped off that chance. Health equity is crippled by socioeconomic inequalities and health disparities. Mobilization of the public through education is an invaluable instrument for enhancing health equity. Study indicates that creating awareness regarding their rights to access equal quality care enables individuals to effectively defend those privileges as exploitation of the public’s ignorance has been the driving force of health inequity as explained by Patti and Straehle (170). Stressing the significance of fair treatment on the basis of ethics about human rights would aid in eliminating misconception relating human value to socioeconomic standards; which is the foundation of health inequity. Besides, education would increase participation in the establishment social and economic policies aimed at sealing the socioeconomic wedge that hampers the provision of equal health care for all members of the society.
What theories do you use in your current practice? Provide an example. Evidence based practice. Patient safety care, patent center care, effective delivery. Two references.
There are several concepts and theories whose application is significance in improving performance in healthcare. For instance, in improving patient safety high reliability and normal accident models are highly valuable as stated by Kathleen and Hayes (41). The models focus on minimizing physician errors using double checking mechanism and analyzing accidents’ root causes that occur during care to help come up with appropriate ways to prevent further similar misfortunes in future. For instance in diagnosing a patient, double checking helps minimize complication associated with misdiagnosis since some diseases share symptoms requiring extra care to distinguish.
Application of complexity theory aids in the establishment of strategies that contribute to effective health care delivery. Complexity theory promotes innovation in the health care sector such as the invention of suitably advanced equipment and new better treatment methods that improve the quality of care delivered (Kathleen 54). For instance, application of the theory has contributed to the establishment of better treatment therapies for mental illness.
Promoting patient-centered care is vital in enhancing the patient-physician relationship and most of the time helps to establish the most appropriate treatment method. The theory of human care is widely applied in the realization of patient- center care as indicated by Kathleen (65). The model requires physicians to involve patients and their families in decision-making regarding treatment options and pay attention to important factors that make a patient get and stay well by listening to them. For instance, in cases of mental disorders resulting from emotional stress, providing comfort, determining and using factors that gives the patients meaning to life plays a vital role in recovery just as much as medication.
Work cited
Blais, Kathleen, and Janice S. Hayes. Professional Nursing Practice: Concepts and Perspectives. Boston:Pearson, 2011. Print.
Lenard, Patti T, and Christine Straehle. “Exploring a sufficiency view of health equity.” Health Inequalities and Global Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. Print.
Masters, Kathleen. Nursing Theories: A Framework for Professional Practice. Sudbury: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2012. Print.
Saiti, Nisreen, Jad Chaaban, and Firas Raad. “Health Equity in Lebanon: a Microeconomic Analysis.” International Journal for Equity in Health (2010): n.pag. Print.
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