Chapter 6 – Adherence

Medication that reduces or suppresses the immune response, usually used to prevent rejection of transplanted organs.

Involves active engagement in making health lifestyle choices, treatment related decisions and attendance at health-related appointments

Making an active decision no to adhere to medical advice, treatment or attend appointments. Intentional non adherence can also include partial adherence.

Usually related to forgetting to take medication or attend appointments or not understanding the health advice or instructions provided by a healthcare professional.

Being able to read, understand and use health information to make health decisions about taking medication or attending appointments.

The ability to actively engage in conversations and decision making with healthcare professionals, asking questions and applying health information to daily living.

To critical analyse health information, evaluate relevance of the information and engage in critical thinking about healthcare policies and advocate for change.

A scale that measures more than one aspect of the topic being assessed.

Text is translated into from the original language into the target language and translated back into the original language by another person.

Healthcare than is tailored to the needs of transgender people.

When an individual cannot understand information to make informed decisions about their own healthcare due to learning disability, age, severe mental health problems or other conditions and problems that impact on cognitive ability.

Not taking the full dose of a prescribed medication.

The use of multiple medications at the same time.

A month of fasting from dawn to sunset that occurs annually in the Muslim faith.

Medication prescribed for an individual who has HIV, to suppress the immune system and prevent the development of AIDs.

A preventative medication taken by people who are HIV negative to reduce the risk of contracting HIV.

Words or phrases that are used to generalise beliefs to all people within certain groups, usually based on ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, disability, gender identity and sexual orientation.