1st Edition

Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS Community-Based Strategies

By Teresa L. Scheid Copyright 2015
138 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, and social support services including housing, transportation, subsistence, and supports for dealing with multiple sources of... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Living with HIV Disease: Mental Health, Substance Use and Social Supports  3. Advocating for My Client: Treatment Ideologies and Barriers to Integrated Treatment  4. I Just Don’t Feel Like Taking Them: Adherence Counseling and Intensive Case Management  5. Finding Common Ground: Professional Cross-Training for Collaborative Systems of Care  6. Integrating Systems of Care for Multiply Diagnosed HIV/AIDS Clients  7. Advancing Advocacy: Moving from the Client to the System.  Appendix A: Illness Narrative.  Appendix B: HIV/AIDS Adherence Tracking Forms.  Appendix C: Integration Plan.  Appendix D: Proclamation of December 1 as World AIDS Day (2012).

Biography

Teresa L. Scheid is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with appointments in Public Policy, Public Health, and Health Services Research.