3.5: Targeted Populations
Expand access to health care services for targeted populations with special health care needs Other Information:
How We Will Accomplish Our Objective: Organ and tissue transplantations: - Promote awareness of the importance of organ donations.
- Evaluate strategies for increasing donations and promote what works. - Develop and disseminate the curriculum concerning
organ and tissue donation for health care professionals. - Support research on alternative sources of tissue and organs suitable
for transplantation. HIV/AIDS: - Promote awareness of the Ryan White CARE Act, which provides resources for uninsured and
underinsured people disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. - Support HIV healthcare workforce development through training,
technical assistance, and dissemination of evidence-based guidelines to Ryan White CARE Act grantees and providers. Evaluate
results and utilize evidence-based best practices as a part of quality management programs to ensure responsible provision
of HIV/AIDS care and treatment: - Support Medicaid’s Maternal HIV Consumer Information Project. - Provide technical assistance
to state Medicaid agencies on appropriate treatment and monitoring of HIV. - Provide technical and financial support to the
Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS. Mental health services: - Promote the adoption of evidence-based treatment services, support,
and prevention strategies. - Conduct and support research to improve the effectiveness of existing mental illness treatments
and develop new interventions to prevent and treat mental disorders. - Promote the integration of services, including mental
health treatment, substance abuse treatment, primary care, and other needed services for people of all ages with co-occurring
disorders, including individuals who are chronically homeless. - Enhance access to services by strengthening outreach and
engagement approaches in relevant programs that will facilitate the enrollment of individuals who are chronically homeless.
- Provide support for data systems that track mental illness, epidemiology, service system characteristics, and outcomes.
(See Appendix A.) Persons with special health care needs: - Provide outreach to educate populations with special needs about
systems of care. - Utilize information from national surveys and research to assist in filling gaps in services. - Promote
fulfillment of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the President’s New Freedom Initiative that will improve the ability
of people of any age who have a disability to live and participate in their communities. - Provide guidance to states to ensure
that children with special needs receive appropriate care. - Conduct research to develop improved screening tools for identifying
children with special needs.
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