HSCI 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Health Education, Seat Belt
15 Dec 2016
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Hsci 312 ch. 10 future trends in ph. Identify several reasons that health education specialists should be optimistic about future employment opportunities. Evaluate the role of the health education specialist in addressing the increasing costs of health care. Introduction: changes in health information, health care costs, passage of the affordable care act, and a more interconnected world will create new opportunities for health education specialists, changes present the health education specialist with enormous opportunities. Demographic profile breakdown by age group, sex, race & ethnicity shows much change from just 10 years ago. Change population will become more diverse, population will become older. Reasons - living longer; couples having fewer children; baby boomers (1946 to 1964) are reaching middle age. Much change since 1960 - e. g. rights of various groups, ethical concerns, reliance on technology. Technology - improved quality of life; will impact us more than ever; health educator will need skills.
