Module 3 Assignment: General Guidelines for Health Screenings
Introduction
There is a provision of different guidelines essential in improving patient care quality in healthcare facilities. As such, the federal government provides that there should be no discrimination during the provision of care. It will be essential in improving patients’ well-being, as it has been known to increase stress, fear, and lead to patients’ poor health. It can also lead to other health problems like high blood pressure, depressive symptoms, heart conditions, and death. Besides, discrimination affects patients’ opportunities and the patient’s sense of agency, which will be detrimental to the care process. There is the provision of different guidelines like the American Cancer Society, ACOG, American Academy of Family Practice, Heathy People 2020, and USPTFS, which help improve healthcare quality. This paper will be looking at the differences between the American Cancer Society, USPTFS, Healthy People, ACOG, and American Academy of Family Practice guidelines. It will also provide contraindications, make more sense, and make changes required for the LGBTQ population guidelines.
Differences between the Guidelines
The American Cancer Society
The ACS provides guidelines that can be useful in promoting healthy habits to prevent cancer. It carries research about the disease and its causes and treatments that can boost people’s health. There is the provision of ten guidelines essential in preventing cancer. They include the following: healthy weight; engagement in exercise; having a balanced diet, reducing fast foods/processed foods, reducing processed meat/red meat, reducing sugary foods intake, reducing alcohol intake, avoiding supplements for prevention of cancer; lactating mothers must breastfeed their infants. The last step includes a prompt diagnosis, and following cancer recommendations can be helpful (Runocwiz et al., 2016).
USPTFS
The U.S. preventative taskforce services provide experts who recommend effective strategies to ensure preventive clinical services. It is known to evaluate scientific evidence in determining if counseling, mitigation measures, and medical screenings help children/adults who do not depict any signs of disease. It assigns letters ABCD and I when making the recommendation. These letters are used to represent the desired benefit (Bibbins-Domingo et al., 2016).
Healthy People 2020
The Healthy People 2020 policy is different from other systems since it helps ensure high quality and extended life expectations of individuals who do not have injuries, disabilities, diseases, and mortality. Also, it works to ensure the elimination of disparities and improvement if health for people. The policy is also useful in creating a socio-physical environment essential for improving individuals worldwide’ quality of life and well-being. Lastly, the policy is necessary for promoting life, health, and excellent habits among individuals worldwide. The system has more than six hundred specific objectives and one thousand two hundred measures for the forty-two different topics (People, 2020).
ACOG
It is an association of professionals like obstetricians, physicians, and gynecologists in the United States. More than fifty-eight thousand gynecologists and obstetricians and healthcare professionals provide women healthcare (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2015).
American Academy of Family Practice guidelines
AAFP was established in 1947 with the primary aim of promoting and maintaining a high-quality standard of healthcare by family doctors. They are involved in the provision of healthcare for the public. It has more than one hundred and thirty-four thousand, six hundred members in fifty states. As such, it has ensured the establishment of family medicine. It has the primary mission of improving the health of individuals seeking healthcare services and communities/families. It has increased creativeness and professionalism among family doctors (Cash & Glass, 2017).
Contradictions among the guidelines
The American Cancer Society should only help prevent and treat cancers and thus not apply to other conditions. USPTFS is essential only in clinical practice, where there are preventive strategies against diseases. Healthy People is necessary for all aspects of care, and thus, it can be useful in promoting health for all patients. ACOG only applied to women seeking gynecological and obstetrical care. American Academy of Family Practice guidelines is only used by family doctors providing healthcare services to the communities.
Guideline making more sense and rationale
The guideline that makes more sense is healthy people in 2020, which has four primary goals. It ensures a high quality and extended life expectations of individuals that do not have injuries, disabilities, diseases, and mortality. Also, it works to ensure the elimination of disparities and improvement if health for people. The policy is also useful in creating a socio-physical environment essential for improving individuals worldwide’ quality of life and well-being. Lastly, the policy is critical in promoting life, health, and excellent habits among individuals worldwide (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2020). The rationale for picking this policy is that it covers various healthcare aspects like addressing disparities, improving healthcare quality, addressing social and physical factors in the environment, and promoting life and health among individuals by adopting healthy habits. It touches on various healthcare conditions and topics that are not looked into by the other remaining guidelines. It is one of the reasons why it has been adopted as a global policy.
Changes to the Guidelines
Only Healthy People provides a need to increase the number of LGBTQ being monitored by population-based data systems. As such, there is a need for guidelines to put LGBTQ into consideration. Besides, the procedures should ensure healthcare quality for the LGBTQ community seeking reproductive healthcare services.
References
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (, 2015). ACOG Committee Opinion No. 650: Physical activity and exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Obstet Gynecol, 126(6), e135-42.
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Cash, J. C., & Glass, C. A. (Eds.). (, 2017). Family practice guidelines. Springer Publishing Company.
People, H. (2020). Healthy people 2020 objectives. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Runowicz, C. D., Leach, C. R., Henry, N. L., Henry, K. S., Mackey, H. T., Cowens‐Alvarado, R. L., … & Hurria, A. (2016). American cancer society/American society of clinical oncology breast cancer survivorship care guidelines. CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 66(1), 43-73.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (, 2020). Healthy people 2020. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2011.