The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is the largest county-operated mental health department in the United States‚ directly operating programs in more than 85 sites‚ and providing services via contract program and DMH staff at approximately 300 sites co-located with other County departments‚ schools‚ courts and other organizations. The goals are to: Provide quality‚ strength based mental health services to children. Help children achieve success at school and in the community. Strengthen
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Program Evaluation Final Johannes Kieding Simmons School for Social Work Program Evaluation Final Introduction and Background The Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is one of the academic teaching hospitals of Harvard and Tufts Medical Schools. The hospital has many different departments‚ including primary care clinics‚ inpatient psychiatry‚ outpatient psychiatry‚ as well as specialty clinics such as the Latino‚ Haitian‚ Portuguese‚ and the Asian linguistic teams. The CHA has three main locations:
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{text:bookmark-start} Assignment: Case Study {text:bookmark-end} Mental illness is any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual’s normal cognitive‚ emotional‚ or behavioral functioning‚ and caused by social‚ psychological‚ biochemical‚ genetic or other factors‚ such as infection or head trauma. Also call emotional illness‚ and mental disease. (www.thefreedictioary.com). No mental illness can not be define as a physical illness such as diabetes‚ because mental illness is
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technology is constantly advancing and gaining recognition worldwide‚ the health care sector is not exempted from this wind of technological change. The move towards a patient-centric improved services is central to Jaiden Health Centre’s core objectives and goals. The main driving force behind this move is the desire to provide the best possible standard of care to all in- and out-patients‚ beginning from improvements in how Jaiden Health Centre handles her patients Medical Records to how diagnostic and
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Unit HSC35 NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care © the Sheffield College‚ 2008 2 NVQ Level 3 Health and Social Care Unit HSC35 NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care and choice‚ well-being Promote iduals ection of all indiv prot The exercises and information provided in this unit will help you to advance your workplace learning by under-pinning the practical aspects of your work with the theory and reasoning that is behind it. At the end of the unit‚ it is expected that you will
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Case Study - Inova Health System Content 1. Introduction ……………………………………………………………………. Pg4 2. Case Study ……………………………………………………………………... Pg5 3. Answers to the questions 1. How would you begin to study this problem? ……………………….. Pg6 2. Do you think you would choose to centralize the recruitment function? Why or Why not? ………………………..…………………………… Pg8
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and a sensitivity of 0.90 for anxiety sub-scale‚ and a specificity of 0.79 and a sensitivity 0.83 for depression sub-scale (Bjelland et al.‚ 2002). In the present study‚ Cronbach’s alpha was 0.86 for depression and 0.84 for anxiety. The Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI) is 18-item questionnaire measuring clinical and non-clinical health anxiety. Each item is scored from 0 to 3. The first fourteen items forms the man measurement and the last four items forms the negative consequences measurement that
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Practice context: Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is a company that provides health care services for a fee often monthly‚ bi-annually‚ or annually. It is also known as medical insurance‚ and acts as an intermediary between individuals‚ organizations‚ and health care professionals (including doctors‚ nurses‚ and hospitals). Health Maintenance Organizations is managed by medical doctors and nurses who work as case managers (HealthCare.gov‚ 2017). Case Management is a collective process that
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context of health and social care in relation to a particular health issue. The approaches and intervention strategies that needed to support the individuals with specific needs and evaluation of services and systems for supporting such individuals is the main part of the report. For this‚ the case study of Ahmed and his family is used. Ahmed is the 15-year-old British Pakistani that is suffering from the problem of cerebral palsy. Moreover‚ the parents are also suffering from health problems as
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Health and social care services should be readily available to everyone within the UK‚ although people with learning disabilities may find access to such services extremely difficult‚ even in today’s society. This assignment looks at the issues surrounding access to health care services and aims to address the differences between health education and health promotion. It also highlights the legislation around health and social care and the importance for nurses to understand the inequalities in provision
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