Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs - The Academies

TABLE 4-1 Models for Delivering Psychosocial Health Services

Common C

Model Identification of Care Mechani

Patients with Planning to Link

Psychosocial To Patients

Health Needs Address Psychoso

Those Health

Needs Services

Building Risk and eligibility screening; Y es Care managem
Health needs assessment
Systems Linkage to
for No Y es community
People resources;
with Case managem
Chronic complex case
Illnesses
(Palmer
and
Somers,
2005)

Chronic
Care
Model
(ICIC,
2007)

s and Their Common Components

Componentsa

isms Support for Mechanisms Follow-up
Illness Self- for on Care
to Manageme Coordinating Delivery
ocial nt Psychosocial
and
s Biomedical
Care

mentb Y es Multidisciplinary team Outcome

care; measurement

pooled funding

Y es Clinical information Use of information
systems; systems to
ment for team care accomplish this;
es Planned or
structured follow-

up visit5s 1

Definition of ch

“They are permanent, leav
caused by nonreversible
require special training
rehabilitation, or may be
long period of supervisio

The definition of chronic disease used in the N
Subject Headings (MeSH).

hronic diseases

ve residual disability, are
e pathological alteration,
of the patient for
e expected to require a
on, observation, or care”

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Addressing psychosocial needs
should be an integral part of
quality cancer care [and care
of other chronic illnesses].

All components of the health
care system involved in cancer
care should explicitly incorporate
attention to psychosocial needs
into their policies, practices, and
standards addressing clinical
care.

These policies, practices and
standards should ensure
psychosocial health services to all
patients who need them.

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