Patient-Centered Health Interventions and Timelines for a Selected Health Care Problem
The patient-centered model remains a valuable care model in modern healthcare. This model details the provision of care that is responsive to and respectful of patients’ needs, demands, and preferences. This caring approach maintains significance in the coordination and continuum of care for patients with heart diseases. Health issues that may influence care processes for patients with heart disease include poor disease control, the development of complications, and community preventive programs to lower the incidence of the disease.
Healthcare Issues, Interventions, and Community Resources
Optimizing disease control in heart diseases may sometimes present a challenge to the healthcare system. These challenges are mainly attributable to patient factors such as medication adherence. Optimal disease control in heart diseases is warranted to prevent disease exacerbation, complications of these diseases, and deaths. Poor medication adherence is a source of compromise to high-value, high-quality care for patients with heart diseases. Rehman et al. (2019) report that poor adherence and non-adherence are common among patients with heart diseases. Poor disease control has been implicated in disease exacerbation, increased hospital admissions and readmission, and even death. This highlights the need to address this issue.
Several interventions can be applied to address poor disease control in heart diseases. Educating and empowering the patients to understand their medication and therapeutic regimen may enhance their medication compliance. Another intervention is ensuring access to caregivers during the care continuum by nurturing healthy patient-caregiver relationships, which may also be valuable. Lessening barriers to accessing medication, such as implementing policies on medication pricing, may also be helpful (Rehman et al., 2019). These measures may effectively enhance compliance and enable optimal control of heart diseases.
The community resources that could be valuable in implementing these interventions include healthcare institutions, the CDC, and the American Heart Association (AHA). AHA champions quality care for patients with heart diseases. It also gives recommendations on therapeutic approaches that optimize disease control. The CDC provides information on effective interventions necessary for managing heart disease. These resources are valuable in optimizing disease control.
Implementation of preventive approaches for heart diseases is another healthcare issue in heart diseases. Preventive interventions against heart diseases effectively lower the likelihood of developing these diseases. This has, however, been a challenge in some community groups. Gupta & Yusuf (2019) assert that the prevention of heart diseases and the consequent complications from these diseases remain poor among persons from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This is because these groups are disproportionately affected by traditional problems of poor access to healthcare, high illiteracy levels, and poverty.
Enhancing access to healthcare and healthcare resources plays a role in increasing the utilization of the available preventive measures for heart diseases. This can be attained by improving these groups’ healthcare availability, affordability, and acceptability. Primary preventive intervention in this regard should be centered on addressing the social determinants of health. It should also focus on policies and behavioral interventions for modulating risk factors for these diseases.
Community resources valuable in implementing these interventions include the American Heart Association, the CDC, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLB). NHLB and the CDC provide information on heart diseases and preventive interventions for these diseases. These resources also encourage preventive measures for these diseases to lower their incidence. They are thus helpful in promoting preventive approaches to heart diseases.
Heart disease complications remain a concerning healthcare issue among patients with heart disease. McClellan et al. (2019) report that failure to diagnose heart diseases presents a missed opportunity to manage the disease effectively. The rate of cardiovascular complication is high among undiagnosed patients, with up to 40% of complications given to the acute care being of undiagnosed patients. Cardiovascular complications have been implicated in many hospitalizations and deaths, underlining the need for addressing them. Timely diagnosis of heart disease is key in preventing cardiovascular complications among patients with heart diseases.
Community screening for heart diseases may enable early detection of heart diseases before they progress to develop complications. Early detection of heart diseases enables the initiation of therapeutic interventions that are critica