Posts Tagged ‘Health Disparities’
Many diseases and infections affect a specific part of the body, but HIV lives in the immune system and therefore ultimately impacts the whole body. While health care providers are trained to be experts in highly focused areas within the mental and physical health fields, they need to be sensitive to how the lines between their specialties can blur and work closely with other providers to maximize benefits for patients. Coordinating care is critical, as many medications can become dangerous or ineffective when combined. Side effects for medicines addressing physical ailments can include mental health issues like depression, and medications addressing mental health conditions such as depression may include physical symptoms like nausea or fluctuations in weight. [...]
Oct 26, 2010 | Categories: Articles | Tags: access to care, Ageism, Aging, comorbidities, contraindications, coordinated care, depression, disease progression, Health Disparities, Homophobia, immunosuppression, Isolation, Medication, menopause, Mental Health, opportunistic infections, physical health, Providers, side effects, Spirituality, Substance Use, Support, testing/diagnosis, Treatment, universal precautions
Certainly, since the advent of protease inhibitors and the real progress in antiretroviral medication, the ability to treat HIV infection and slow down the progression to serious illness and death is very real. However, the disparity in being able to reap the benefits to the treatment advances is also very real in the United States, and certainly when one looks at the global epidemic. Health care is still very much a privilege and not a right, so a person’s socio-economic status affects the degree to which he or she has access to the medications. There are racial disparities in health care which make the ability to take advantage of the medications an issue of race. So, the disparities that we have in our society continue to play out in the AIDS epidemic. [...]
Oct 26, 2010 | Categories: Transcripts | Tags: access to care, Class, Economic Impact, Geriatric Care, Health Disparities, Medicare, medication/treatment, Race, Safer Sex
GMHC’s Sean Cahill brought the aging of the HIV/AIDS epidemic to the attention of a much wider audience with his recent piece in the Huffington Post. In the piece, entitled “The Long and Winding Road: Growing Older with HIV,” Cahill — the organization’s Managing Director for Public Policy, Research, and … Read More…
Feb 19, 2011 | Categories: Blog | Tags: demographic trends, Health Disparities, In the News, Long-Term Survivor, looking forward
A new report out of the US Department of Health and Human Services Office highlights how few seniors are currently accessing critical preventative health services, with minority seniors even less likely to receive these services. Findings indicate that if seniors received the 20 recommended prevention services (including potentially life-saving screenings … Read More…
Mar 16, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: access to care, Health Disparities, Medicare, prevention, Testing-Diagnosis
