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Hospital-based intervention programs (HVIPs) have gained popularity for intervening in the cycle of violence. HVIPs aim to intervene when a survivor comes in contact with the medical system. Many of these programs use peer-based case management as a form of trauma-informed care, in order to match survivors with resources in a culturally ...
In each of these cases, the rapport between members of a dyad (e.g. a teacher and student or doctor and patient) allows the participants to coordinate their actions and establish a mutually beneficial working relationship, or what is often called a "working alliance". [5]
Patient advocacy, as a hospital-based practice, grew out of this patient rights movement: patient advocates (often called patient representatives) were needed to protect and enhance the rights of patients at a time when hospital stays were long and acute conditions—heart disease, stroke and cancer—contributed to the boom in hospital growth.
The Platt Report, formerly known as the Welfare of Sick Children in Hospital (Ministry of Health, 1959), [1] was a report that was the result of research into the welfare of children who were undergoing medical treatment within the UK and to make suggestions that could be passed on to the hospital authorities that would improve their welfare during hospital visits.
Elvin Vavrinec Semrad was born on August 10, 1909, in the United States in the village of Abie, Nebraska.His parents were of Czech ancestry and he spoke Czech at home. He earned a BA degree from Peru State Teachers College in Nebraska and an MD degree in 1934 from the University of Nebraska School of Medicine.
During that time, the family was living in San Jose, where it was easier to access mental health services that ranged from therapy to inpatient hospital beds, she said.
Efforts to establish these teaching hospitals in Boston, New York and St. Louis required the collective efforts on the part of the universities and their medical schools. To do so they had to persuade the hospital's board of trustees or the local and state governments to provide the necessary funds for hospitals to be used for clinical education.
Bass started the community group in 1990 to build a political movement around the idea that South L.A. needed more help, more investment and new solutions to the challenges created by decades of ...