Forming and maintaining important personal relationships
People’s ability to form and maintain personal bonds with others is essential to wellbeing. A person’s health status can dramatically affect their personal relationships and the ways in which they interact with others.
When making health coverage decisions, consider how a health intervention may impact personal relationships, for better or worse.
Considering impacts on personal relationships includes:
Impacts on important personal relationships
- Would the health intervention change a person’s ability to form and maintain important personal relationships, such as with people they consider as family members, partners, spouses, and friends? If yes, how?
Caregivers’ burden
- Would the intervention change the burden on personal caregivers, such as family members, friends, and other social supporters, who help people with the health condition manage their illness, disability, or chronic care needs? If yes, how?
Participation in social groups
- Would the intervention affect a person’s and / or their family’s ability to participate in social and community groups that are important to them? If yes, how?
Personal Relationships and Systems Factors & Constraints
In the real-world context of the health system & other factors
- Does the intervention have any specific advantages or disadvantages based on systems factors and constraints that are relevant to forming and maintaining personal relationships?
- For example, if a new health intervention required fewer visits to a clinic or drug dispensary, would this have meaningful impacts on people’s ability to spend time with family, friends, and community members?
- Do the underlying systems factors and constraints impact how the intervention may increase or decrease the burden on caregivers?