HLST 3230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Health Promotion, Medical Home, Grater

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 3230
• Professor: Lynda van Dreumel

Document Summary

Focuses on healthcare services, including health promotion, illness and injury prevention, and the diagnosis and treatment of illness and injury. Of rst contact services (by providers such as family physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and telephone advice lines) Ensure continuity and ease of movement across the system so that care remains integrated when people require more specialized services (with specialists or in hospitals) Prevention and treatment of common diseases and injuries. Growing consensus that family physicians, nurses and other professionals working as partners result in: Well positioned to focus on health promotion and improving the management of chronic disease. Facilitates access to primary health care services after hours, reducing the need for costly emergency room visits. Can support information sharing among providers (patients do not need to repeat health history or undergo same tests for every di erent provider they see.