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Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS

Community-Based Strategies
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Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS explores the complexities of delivering coordinated, integrated health care to individuals living with HIV. It covers a continuum of services including physical health, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health, substance abuse counselling, and essential social supports. The book draws on collaborative efforts with health departments and community organisations to reveal challenges and advancements in creating effective, inclusive care systems.
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This informative work is ideal for HIV researchers, healthcare providers, advocates, and policymakers interested in improving integrated care approaches for people living with HIV/AIDS.

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This book highlights the dilemmas faced in providing comprehensive, integrated care to individuals living with HIV disease. It provides both an understanding of existing efforts to integrate diverse systems of care, as well as insight into ways in which systems of care must be challenged in order to meet the needs of people living with HIV.

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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 counselling, and social support services including housing, transportation, subsistence, and supports for dealing with multiple sources of stigma.

This book highlights the dilemmas faced in providing comprehensive, integrated care to individuals living with HIV. It provides both an understanding of existing efforts to integrate diverse systems of care, as well as insight into ways in which systems of care must be challenged to meet the needs of people living with HIV.

Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS is the result of collaborative work with the county Health Department, numerous community-based organisations, and several planning boards in a metropolitan area, which have sought to provide integrated care to people living with HIV. It will be a valuable resource to the diverse community of HIV researchers, advocates, and providers.

Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138791787

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 August 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 18 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 317g

Pages: 138

About the Author

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.

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