Improving Mental Health in Low-Income Households

Improving Mental Health in Low-Income Households Improving Mental Health in Low-Income Households While collecting data, one of the major considerations is to guarantee the accuracy of information. We will have to check if data is up-to-date and complies with HIPAA. Providing patients with proper medicines and timely treatment is mandatory. Unfortunately, today, we continuously ignore the poor and leave them to suffer alone. So, the purpose of this study is to collect information about hospitals. First of all, we will target only a few hospitals and use quantitative techniques to evaluate their performance and current policies. Quantitative methods will allow us to collect data regarding history and location of hospitals, and number of patients, doctors, and nurses. We feel that obtaining this information is essential to the success of our project. The process of data collection will begin by arranging meetings with hospital administrators. We will ask the hospitals if they are willing to assist or provide some form of payment plans for low income patients. We may also ask them to submit patients’ case files so we can go through them and find how many mental patients were admitted to this hospital in last few months. Based on the information provided, we will compare the case histories of different patients to analyze how many low-income households received discounted or payment plans for treatment and medicines. To ensure the reliability and credibility of data, we have decided to gather information using accepted data collection techniques only. Initially, we will identify the issue and collect relevant data within a few days, before it gets changed or edited by the hospital administrators. We want it to be valid and accurate, so more and more patients receive immediate medical assistance. Once the data is fully corrected and verified, we will conduct internal and external assessments in the next step to show if the hospitals have been offering lower cost or payment plans to the low income patients. It is another important aspect as the life of a patient depends on the reactions or behavior of hospital staff. We want them to perform their duties well and have feelings for both rich and poor. In the United States, major healthcare facilities need to be available to everyone, and this shouldn’t cost the patient anything more than a low-income household can handle and rely on public hospitals for immediate treatment. We want to monitor every step and ensure accuracy and reliability. For this purpose, we will discuss important considerations with health experts across the nation. We simply want to achieve our goal and come up with the expectations of people by the deadline. For this, we are ready to invest a lot of money and have involved several health experts. As a team, all of us will carefully observe the performance of target hospitals. There is an increasing familiarity with principles and rules of evidence-based medicines in the healthcare community. As we become more aware of the hierarchy of evidence, we can develop familiarity with our research design and policies. Things are not going to be easy as we have to cover a number of hospitals and evaluate their performance at the same time while providing patients with lower cost medical assistance. Is it possible to improve mental health in low-income households without any investment? I don’t think it’s possible since every medicine they opt for and every therapy their doctor recommends will certainly cost something. Where are we now? As of today, recent estimates state that about “22.1% of Americans ages 18 and older-about 1 in 5 adults-suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year” (medicinenet.com, n.d.). Roughly, this means that more than 18 million of the American population has experienced any of the mental illnesses that cause disability such as bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, and/major depression, among others. However, despite the severity of the situation, it is surprising that about 17% of this population (higher than 7.5 million) of all adult Americans is uninsured and underinsured when it comes to mental health services (mentalhealthamerica.net, 2017). However, these records also say that these numbers differ based on the state’s access to free insurance such as Medicare. In those states with Medicaid services, only 13% of all the adults with mental illnesses are uninsured as compared to 19% for those without. All in all, this provides an idea of where we are right now. Background Poverty is a major and common experience for many men, women and children in the United States. Living in a low-income household has been directly linked to risks for mental disorders and heart attack. Despite their need for healthcare services, impoverished men avoid visiting qualified and experienced doctors due to financial problems. In such circumstances, primary care providers can come forward and address the issues on a large scale. It’s safe to say that America is the most developed and powerful country in the world and the government should be responsible for providing primary medical facilities to every citizen. We have observed that there is an insufficient number of hospitals to treat the number of ill in the United States. Yet, it’s clear that most of the policies in place have failed to capture the main elements of mental health among men (Ruggiero, 2015). Healthcare in the United States does not offer adequate coverage for mental conditions suffered by low-income men and women. In this project, we will concentrate on the current hospital policies, provide grants to the poor, and give suggestions on how to improve the overall healthcare system. Living in a low-income household is a common occurrence that many people experience over the course of their lives. Initially, our focus is on a few hospitals only, but we aim to cover a large number of hospitals in the United States in coming months. We will make sure that low-income men and women struggling with mental disorders get financial assistance for proper treatment and easy access to relevant medicines (Conrad, & White, 2016). Time As we are going to cover a number of hospitals, this project is estimated to take up to two years. We will get the stakeholders and the non-governmental organizations involved in the next step, and new policies will be implemented as soon as possible. Given the human welfare organizations and sponsors involved, we will target a large number of clinics too and implement innovative strategies to ensure mental health treatment to the underprivileged. GOALS * To provide families with all necessary health care facilities under one roof so that they don’t have to move from one hospital to another to get the assistance needed. * To provide low-income families with free medicines and a comprehensive coverage. * To offer easy access to medical insurance. For this, we have already signed contracts with a number of insurance companies * To reduce the number of mentally ill patients in the United States in future SCOPE There are a number of phases in this project; first of all, we will evaluate th...