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Social Determinants & Homeless Health

The document discusses social determinants of health and how factors like socioeconomic status, education, employment, housing, and environment impact people's health and well-being. It specifically examines how lack of stable housing and homelessness can negatively affect health due to issues like lack of access to healthcare, unstable living situations, and higher rates of mental illness and substance abuse issues. The document advocates for more comprehensive and integrated healthcare models that address the complex needs of homeless populations through approaches like outreach services, regular access to medical care, multidisciplinary care teams, and supportive housing programs.
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Social Determinants & Homeless Health

The document discusses social determinants of health and how factors like socioeconomic status, education, employment, housing, and environment impact people's health and well-being. It specifically examines how lack of stable housing and homelessness can negatively affect health due to issues like lack of access to healthcare, unstable living situations, and higher rates of mental illness and substance abuse issues. The document advocates for more comprehensive and integrated healthcare models that address the complex needs of homeless populations through approaches like outreach services, regular access to medical care, multidisciplinary care teams, and supportive housing programs.
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The social determinants of health (SDH), which are described as the conditions in which people are

born, develop, reside, earn, and age, have an impact on their health and well-being. The worldwide,
regional, and local distributions of wealth, authority, and method utilises these conditions.
The SDH consists of, but is not limited to, the following elements like Earnings, Unemployment
and Job Security, Workplace Conditions and Job opportunities, Growth of Children in the Early
Years, Sex, Racism, Uncertainty in the Food Supply, Habitat, Isolation from society, Social
Protection (welfare policy) Resources for Health, Impairment Due to Aboriginal Status.
Housing is one of the most well-studied socioeconomic determinants of health, and certain housing
programs for low-income persons have been shown to enhance healthcare outcomes and lower
health-care expenditures. As a consequence, several healthcare providers, insurers, and government
agencies are attempting to gain a better understanding of the entire health-care and residential field
in order to identify where they can most essentially act.
In the homeless community, terrible early life events and suffering are usually preceded by poor
school results and disengagement, substance use, relationship problems, have little or no
transportation, unpredictable work histories, and, in some cases, jail. Homelessness is caused by
the multiplicative effect of these various unfavorable personal experiences, as well as an absence of
a reliable support system. Homelessness and health have a bidirectional and cumulative link.
Furthermore, these patients frequently have minimal self-care skills. Without a suitable location to
keep insulin and accessibility to nutritional food, a homeless individual with diabetes, for instance,
may struggle to manage his or her illness.
Serious mental diseases, particularly chronic schizophrenia, are the most frequent of these.
The capability of mentally ill persons to deal with their surrounding environment the ability of
others around them to live with their actions highly concerned as underlying disorders deteriorate.
Many people end up homeless due to a lack of adequate therapeutic therapies and supporting
housing subsidy alternatives.
By considering this vulnerable population, I believe we could include a few model of care that
contains an incorporated, comprehensive approach by a group of healthcare professionals educated
about the distinctive difficulties posed by homeless people, utilising a patient-centered hospital care
model in conjunction with outreach services at numerous locations with regular access to
secondary/tertiary care, and utilising a patient-centered hospital care prototype in conjunction with
services to people at numerous locations with regular access to secondary/tertiary care.
During my review, I was able to identify the following basic patterns as being particularly relevant
like Treatment Protocols and Service delivery Models, Consistency, Integrated Strategy,
Accessibility, Compassionate Team, Multimodal Method, Case Collaboration and Administration
of Service providers
When looking for homeless patients, nurses may feel helpless and irritated. Nurses may experience
exhaustion as a result of these individuals' repeated ED visits and improve compliance to informed
consent. Nurses who educate about this culture's specific demands, on the other hand, are in a better
position to help this group receive better treatment.
Before serving this demographic, nurses must first establish their own core values.
The importance of communication and case-finding cannot be overstated.
Allow yourself the time and patience to cultivate a trustworthy, non confrontational connection that
communicates regard, decency, and worth.
Minimize categorizing and accept each person individually. Agreements should be kept. React
correctly to the patient's nonverbal communication.
When initiating visual contact and invading personal space, following the patient's direction and
respecting his or her comfortability.
Speak calmly, particularly if the person seems tight or frightened. If needed, engage a professional
interpreter to speak in the person's main language. Look for recurring themes in the individuals'
narratives.
Rather of dividing acceptable and unacceptable emotions, reflective practise allows the complete
individual to be involved in their activity. This allows nurses to be fully involved in their profession,
which enhances patient care while also improving their enthusiasm and drive. Allowing them to
examine oneself more deeply in a secure and supportive setting encourages them to become more
aware for their patients and better prepared to communicate to specific needs.

For instance, I got embroiled in a patient fight; the patient was dissatisfied with her hospitalisation
and decided to come home. She was unable to be discharged due to the fact that she needed a
package of care. She went to her bed after I described everything. I was relieved that I had clarified
everything to her and that I could return to my other responsibilities.

Mrs. Carly, a 27-year-old woman, arrived for a scheduled vaginal delivery. She was hospitalised via
the emergency room. On the third day, I delivered a healthy baby and was discharged. She returned
to the hospital six days later, claiming that she had discovered some gauze fragments in her vagina
that same day. Commission of inquiry, it was discovered that the medical practitioner had forgotten
to remove the gauze and had never notified the patient about it. Nurses do not perform PV,
according to the nurse, and the doctor has not notified her that the pack has been placed.
The nurse's contemplation, What happened:
• The ward was crowded, and I had to care for patients admitted.
• The doctor never notified me that the gauze package had been implanted.
The nurse's contemplation, What should be done in the first place:
• I should have requested for assistance if the department was full
• I supported the process by providing the tools, equipment, and disposables
• I am accountable for collecting them pre and post operation

The EN's ability to focus on evidence-based practise and guarantee currency of required knowledge
and skills, as well as to manage for their own and others' emotional, bodily, and mental
requirements, falls within the reflective and analytic practise category. The criteria are as follows:
• delivers research-based nursing care
• operates within safety and quality enhancement regulations and procedures
• participates in continuing professional development.

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