Community-Based Participatory Care
Community-Based Participatory Care
Pros and Cons to Delivering Community-Based Participatory Care
The purpose of this discussion is to describe some of the benefits and challenges to delivering community based participatory care to the disabled adult vulnerable population. The disabled adult population is at risk for poor health outcomes for many reasons. This population is at a disadvantage for health disparities due to low socioeconomic status and other disparities (Pender et al., 2015) because of the nature of their illnesses. As an advanced practice nurse, interventions should aim to reduce health inequalities among disabled adults. This is initially done by performing health assessments prior to formulating targeted health plans in partnership with each patient.
Areas of Health Assessment
Areas of health assessment for the disabled population in which interventions should be directed includes health assets, behaviors, problems, health beliefs, and lifestyle strengths (Pender et al., 2015). Health assets can be viewed as factors that improve the life of disabled adults to maintain their health and therefore enhance well-being (Van Bortel et al., 2019). Health behavior ranges from involvement of disabled adult’s use of health services, or practices (Mahmoud, 2015). Disabled adults present with various health problems such as post residual stroke, deficits from spinal cord injury, and physical impairments (Gretschel et al., 2017). Additionally, morbidities such as hypertension or diabetes mellitus further complicate existing health impairments. Health beliefs of disabled adults can be assessed in the context of the health belief model (HBM), which helps to understand how an individual may view certain health related factors in making health decision. Health decision outcomes are related to individual perception of personal health effects (Pender et al., 2015). Lifestyle strengths such as persistence, positive attitude or coping mechanisms (Aungst et al., 2019) are important to assess in improving well-being.
