AlignMap In Cites
AlignMap In Cites offers annotated links to web sites, news, research, and other material relevant to treatment adherence & patient compliance. AlignMap In Cites, the AlignMap Web Site, the AlignMap Weblog, and the AlignMap Furl Archive are produced by Allan Showalter, MD
Apr 20, 2008
8:17am
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Often, the difficulty with “compliance” with health care recommendations is unconscious even to those having the problems.
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- Albany Democrat Herald: Integrative primary care watches wellbeing Quote is from article author, Dr. Mary Ann Wallace. Excerpt: To make the lifestyle and behavioral changes often needed for our state of health, we must pay attention to the many components that go into our choices and decision making. For example, a number of years ago, while working as an epidemiologist for the State Health Division, we were struggling with a tuberculosis outbreak in one of the downtown Asian districts. It was not until a nurse made a home visit that we uncovered the fact that nobody was taking their medicine. True to their culture, the patients arrived every month at the TB clinic to pick up their medication and politely answer all the questions asked of them. And also true to their culture they, without disagreeing with the health professionals, then took their medicine home and put it in their cupboards — along with the rest of the accumulated unopened bottles. Why? It was the wrong color. In their cultural belief, different types of illnesses required certain color medication.
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