From July 1, public sector insurance companies had suspended about 150 hospitals from their list of Preferred Provider Network healthcare companies which provide cashless
hospitalisation services to policy holders under the mediclaim scheme.
Not exact matches
While the former covers expenses pertaining to
hospitalisation, the latter is more comprehensive and covers medical expenses which might include
services beyond
hospitalisation.
Preventive care and out - patient
services with high need and frequency of occurrence are not covered by most of the
hospitalisation insurance cover.
We are currently unable to track patient journey from primary health care and the quality of
services they receive, through to the impact this has on
hospitalisation rates and death — we are missing a large part of the «prevention» story on how to keep people healthy!
Given the relationship between access, quality care and the prevention of
hospitalisations, this is a key mechanism through which the broad community acceptance of Aboriginal community controlled health
services prevents more serious illness from developing.
From a health
service provision perspective, the team anticipate finding that the issue of depression amongst older adults who have recently had an extended period of
hospitalisation is under - recognised and poorly managed at present.
If primary health networks are intent on reducing the high rate of preventable
hospitalisations in their region, their attention must turn to forming partnerships with Aboriginal community - controlled health
services.
Breaking the cycle of fear and distrust which leads Aboriginal people to often do anything to avoid mental health
services, until they have extremely florid conditions, which finally cause emergency
services to intercept them with high levels of subduing technologies and involuntary
hospitalisations.
One found that communities who transitioned from government control to local First Nations community control of health
services experienced a 30 per cent reduction in
hospitalisation rates.
Prognostic factors Severity of positive and negative symptoms (schedules for positive and negative symptoms); course of illness over the past 2 years; level of functioning (Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF)-RRB-; premorbid functioning (Premorbid Adjustment scale); duration of untreated psychosis (interview for retrospective assessment of onset of schizophrenia); days of
hospitalisation; number of contacts with psychiatric
services; number of days in supported housing.
Data on
hospitalisations for mental and behavioural disorders provide a measure of the use of hospital
services by those with problems related to mental health.