HEALTH GOALS

Family Health Goals

Family Health Goals

Introduction

Throughout your life, you have to make decisions about your health and your family. The decisions you make influence your overall well-being and the quality and cost of yours and your family care. Often, people who learn as much as possible about the options are more confident about the decisions they make. In general, people who work with their doctors to make health care decisions are more satisfied with the care they receive, and the results they achieve. Some people argue that the decision about ones' health goals must be left for the family doctor or nurse as they are the experts and will make the proper decisions regarding ones health. While some argue that to make health goals and decisions for oneself and the family, it is essential to make them, yourself along with the nurse or doctor's advice. Individuals ought to have an equal say in their health goals decision making.

This paper discusses that families are in the best position to determine their personal health goals and to attain them through identifying and further developing their strengths as an egalitarian partner with a family nurse.

Importance of Family's Role in Devising Health Goals

Every family must make decisions regarding their families very carefully, especially if it concerns healthcare. Health of an individual is an integral part of one's life. It is necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle for yourself, as well as for your family. In making decisions regarding the health goals, there is an ongoing debate that whether or not families are in the best position to determine their personal health goals and to attain them through identifying and further developing their strengths as an egalitarian partner with a family nurse.

I believe that for families to take part in deciding the health goals as an egalitarian partner with a family nurse is essential. The family is the one to determine their health goal, by extension of the fact that the patient has the right to determine their personal health goals. They must have proper awareness about the health problems and their appropriate solutions for which they need assistance of the family doctor or nurse. A family doctor or nurse is aware about the medical history of the family, which is why he/she can provide the family with proper guidance. For making decisions regarding the health goals of the family, one must be aware about the American health care system.

American Healthcare

Health care in the United States has revolutionize by the introduction of managed and proper care. Used by both public and private, managed care is an alternative to the remuneration of health services. In arrangements of managed care, financing and delivery of health care is provided through contracts with hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, health agencies, home care, and other suppliers (Rosenblatt et al, 1998). It has been described as a system of health care in which a variety of methods are utilize to contain the costs of services while maintaining quality of ...