Financial Accounting Analysis

Public Health Initiative

Abraham Anderson

Walden University

The public health initiative that I chose is the New York Knows, by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is an HIV testing initiative. It aims to help all New York City residents learn their HIV status and take full advantage of the City’s HIV care and prevention services. HIV/AIDS comes with multiple complications: it is viewed as preventable, medications are costly and hard to oversee, quiet disgrace and separation endure, and the illnesses lopsidedly influence low-pay gatherings and racial and ethnic minorities (Conroy et al, 2016). The initiative gives a willful HIV test to each New York City occupant who new to the experience and makes HIV testing a normal piece of human services in New York City. It also identifies undiagnosed HIV-positive people in New York City and link them to medical care, as well as connects at-risk people who test negative for HIV to prevention services, including Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis PrEP (Goldman et al, 2008).

To alleviate the unequal burden of HIV and promote equity in access of HIV testings and treatment, New York Knows works in collaboration with other community partners to improve accessibility and equity in HIV testing for the entire city. The economic dimension and the impact of HIV on the uninsured and underserved communities that do not have the economic means to facilitate access have been largely ignored even as the demand for HIV testing and treatment increases (Getzen, 2013). Through its New York Knows initiative, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene hopes to change this with partners as a way of balancing the supply and demand sides of the HIV testing and treatment. Thee New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene hopes to build capacity at community level where the demand for HIV testing and treatment for the poor and uninsured communities can be met there by reducing the burden of HIV on the vulnerable community. (Synderman, Sheldon, & Bischoff, 2012).

References

Conroy, A. A., McGrath, N., van Rooyen, H., Hosegood, V., Johnson, M. O., Fritz, K., ... & Darbes, L. A. (2016). Power and the association with relationship quality in South African couples: Implications for HIV/AIDS interventions. Social science & medicine, 153, 1-11.

Getzen, T. E. (2013). Health economics and financing (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Goldman, J., Kinnear, S., Chung, J., & Rothman, D. J. (2008). New York City's initiatives on diabetes and HIV/AIDS: implications for patient care, public health, and medical professionalism. American journal of public health, 98(5), 807-13.

Snyderman, R., Sheldon, G. F., & Bischoff, T. A. (2012). Gauging supply and demand: The challenging quest to predict the future physician workforce. Health Affairs, 21(1), 167–168.