Comparing health conditions of homeless clients in Budapest day-care centres
Journal Title: New Medicine - Year 2011, Vol 15, Issue 3
Abstract
Aim. Diótörés Foundation has carried out a complex health condition study among 100 volunteering homeless people – part of the program supported by The Norwegian Found - which aimed at getting correct diagnosis and proper health care services for the clients. Furthermore, we have targeted at estimating the possibilities for helping clients to integrate into society. Given that most of our clients rely on services of various day-care institutions in Budapest, in this paper we have examined whether clients from different institutions have problems of different kinds.Method. Well-prepared interviewers have questioned the clients on health and social topics, took family anamneses, anthropological data (e.g., BMI, waist circumference), measured blood pressure and took blood samples of clients in order to screen liver enzymes and kidney function, ions, Hepatitis C and HIV infection. The data have been processed with the use of computer.Results. Earlier undiagnosed diseases have been screened among 46% of the examined clients. Clients from different shelters, differ in various aspects such as age, family anamnesis, and health hazardous attitudes. At the same time, well-distinguished differences have been found in the clients’ health condition. Unexpectedly, the youngest group of clients – who come from own institute – have not been found the healthiest one. In many cases, dual or triple diagnoses could be found.Conclusion. There may exist differences of clients’ lifecycles, diseases and problems found even among institutions with similar services or social profile. Providing these clients with health services in conventional health care institutions has been considered impossible for mutual intolerance. One of the possible solutions is that the involved social institutions could provide or have direct access to specialists of medical fields such as psychiatry and infectology or hepatology so that they could be more easily available to the clients.
Authors and Affiliations
Kovács Aranka, Csépányi Gabriella, Kurucz Sarolta
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP55225
- DOI -
- Views 99
- Downloads 0
Accordance of clinical symptoms of OSAS (obturative sleep apnea syndrome) with polisomnography results
<b>Introduction</b>. OSAS is characterized by symptoms that occur during the day and night, such as snoring, sleep apnea, tiredness, drowsiness and behavioral disorders. A gold standard in dia...
Pharyngeal tumours in infants
The paper discusses 4 cases of pharyngeal tumours in 2 neonates, an infant and a 7-year-old child. The tumours were initially asymptomatic. They were detected in the children?s mouths by their parents or by doctors. The...
Third-country nationals in the Hungarian public health care sector
Health care effects of international migration are the emerging themes within mobility studies. Unfortunately, there is scarce information on health situation of international migrants in Hungary. This paper tries to fil...
Treatment of subglottic stenosis in children
Subglottic stenosis of the larynx are currently the most common indication for tracheostomy in children. Treatment of postintubation laryngeal stenosis has been modificated for many years. Methods of treatment of postint...
Perioperative management of children with von Willebrand disease and tonsillar hypertrophy in ENT Department of Children Hospital in Warsaw Medical University
<b>Introduction.</b> The tonsillar hypertrophy are the most common children’s disease. The treatment of choice is surgery. Regardless of surgery procedure perioperative bleeding...