Development of an Innovative and Unique Comprehensive School Health Initiative Involving Community Health Care Professionals

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (11) ◽  
pp. 870-875
Author(s):  
Janice D. Key ◽  
Kathleen C. Head ◽  
Sarah Piwinski ◽  
Kristen Morella ◽  
Coleen T. Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
School Health ◽  
Comprehensive School ◽  
Community Health Care ◽  
Comprehensive School Health ◽  
Health Initiative

Mobile Supported Patient Care

2007 ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
C. J. Fitch ◽  
C. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
System Level ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Community Health Care ◽  
Care Information

Community health care seems to many governments to be an ideal arena for mobile technological support. Community health care professionals work within the community, visiting people within their own homes or at local health centres. Mobile technologies offer much potential to support these professionals in provision of patient and care information, access to other professionals and services, and overall improvement of patient care. However, there are several challenges to be met before the full bene?ts can be achieved. At a system level, community health care has many tensions, particularly between national direction and associated funding, and between local needs and practicalities. In addition, technology is not always used and applied as initially expected. This chapter explores some of these tensions by examining an example of community health care support in the South of England.

scholarly journals Providing Ethical and Humane Care to Hospitalized, Incarcerated Patients With COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 104990912199431
Author(s):  
Leah Rorvig ◽  
Brie Williams
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Community Health Care ◽  
Medical Decisions ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
Federal Prisons ◽  
Seriously Ill

The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating the health of hundreds of thousands of people who live and work in U.S. jails and prisons. Due to dozens of large outbreaks in correctional facilities, tens of thousands of seriously ill incarcerated people are receiving medical care in the community hospital setting. Yet community clinicians often have little knowledge of the basic rights and ethical principles governing care of seriously ill incarcerated patients. Such patients are legally entitled to make their own medical decisions just like non-incarcerated patients, and retain rights to appoint surrogate decision makers and make advance care plans. Wardens, correctional officers, and prison health care professionals should not make medical decisions for incarcerated patients and should not be asked to do so. Dying incarcerated patients should be offered goodbye visits with their loved ones, and patients from federal prisons are legally entitled to them. Community health care professionals may need to advocate for this medically vulnerable hospitalized patient population to receive ethically appropriate, humane care when under their care in community hospitals. If ethical care is being obstructed, community health care professionals should contact the prison’s warden and medical director to explain their concerns and ask questions. If necessary, community clinicians should involve a hospital’s ethics committee, leadership, and legal counsel. Correctional medicine experts and legal advocates for incarcerated people can also help community clinicians safeguard the rights of incarcerated patients.

A Comprehensive School Health Initiative

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Meeker ◽  
Catherine DeAngelis ◽  
Barbara Berman ◽  
Howard E. Freeman ◽  
Dorothy Oda
Keyword(s):  
School Health ◽  
Comprehensive School ◽  
Comprehensive School Health ◽  
Health Initiative

scholarly journals Métis Community Perspectives Inform a School-based Health Promotion Intervention Using Participatory Action Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Oosman ◽  
Janet Smylie ◽  
Louise Humbert ◽  
Carol Henry ◽  
Karen Chad
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
School Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Comprehensive School ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Comprehensive School Health ◽  
Increased Risk

Indigenous children in Canada have an increased risk of developing chronic conditions compared with the general Canadian population. There is limited understanding of the design of Comprehensive School Health (CSH) interventions to support health and wellness among Métis children. Comprehensive School Health (CSH) frameworks and interventions focus on supporting whole school and classroom environments and actions to promoting holistic health and well-being for children. This paper highlights experiences of a participatory action research (PAR) project engaging Métis community members to inform the design of a Métis comprehensive school health intervention. Findings highlight the process of enacting participatory action research in a Métis community while revealing Métis community priorities to inform a comprehensive school health intervention. We demonstrate a participatory approach to integrating Métis knowledge throughout the research process. We anticipate findings will be relevant to researchers, health care professionals, and community knowledge users working collaboratively to design health promoting interventions for the health and wellbeing of other Métis communities.

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