Health Goals for Me framework
Understanding the ‘Health Goals for Me’ framework
Designed to help you work closely with your healthcare professional in achieving healthy living with HIV, this framework facilitates the ongoing process of developing and adapting a care plan that is tailored to your personal quality of life goals.
Learn about the development of the ‘Health Goals for Me’ framework in the first chapter of Moving Fourth, and the conception of our vision for healthy living with HIV beyond viral suppression.
Infographic: Moving Fourth Introduction
An overview of three key steps involved in the ‘Health Goals for Me’ framework. Find out more about how you can work with your healthcare professionals to agree on individual objectives for care.
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The first step in the ‘Health Goals for Me’ framework, Ask & Measure, helps empower you to be involved in the management of your long-term healthy living.
This means that the healthcare professional will help you prioritise the quality of life goals that matter most to you; first by Asking the right questions to identify these goals; then by accurately Measuring them to collect meaningful health information.
In this section, we outline a system developed by our group of HIV experts to implement this step in the clinic. This includes recommended patient reported outcome measures – tools such as questionnaires that your doctor can use to study your health status and quality of life (or PROMs).
You can also learn more about Ask & Measure, and the methodology behind it, in the Second Chapter White Paper.
You can also view the Steering Committee suggested PROMs under Supporting Sources.
The second chapter of the Moving Fourth White Paper gives an in-depth overview of Ask & Measure and its role in the ‘Health Goals for Me’ framework. Find out more about the Ask & Measure system and the Steering Committee recommended Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).
Developed by a group of HIV experts, the Ask & Measure system provides a method to identify the right Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) for you in the clinic.
After they have assessed your overall health, your doctor can dive deeper with more specific questions to identify exact problem areas, and how you have been affected.
Learn more about how Feedback & Discuss is a continuous approach developed in HIV care that transformed the patient-doctor relationships in long-term disease care, as well as how ongoing communication is key to long-term care.
The goal of the Moving Fourth Steering Committee is to go beyond just raising awareness around best practice and give you and your healthcare professional a set of useful tools that you can use together, to achieve the fourth 90* for better QoL in HIV care.
The Feedback & Discuss infographic highlights the recommendations for discussion sessions made by clinical experts and patient advocates.
Both you and your healthcare professional can follow these recommendations with the step-by-step guide to get the most out of your discussion sessions.
*Since the proposal of the Health Goals for Me framework, UNAIDs have announced an updated 95-95-95 target to help end the AIDS epidemic. Despite this update, the Moving Fourth Steering Committee believe improving QoL remains a key goal to achieve health living with HIV. As such, the framework should still be considered an important component of HIV care.
Approaching intervention: case studies
No two patient-doctor relationships are the same, but hearing about the experiences and challenges of others can help you understand the best way to approach your treatment journey. The following case studies are real examples of the Health Goals for Me framework put into practice by doctors and patients to find solutions for quality of life issues.
