COM 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Confounding, Health Impact Assessment, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Determinants of health, language barriers in healthcare, and the e-patient. Long pathway between project and impact on population. Draw on best evidence from reviews and research. Blaming individuals for having poor health or crediting them for good health is inappropriate. Individuals are unlikely to be able to directly control many of the determinants of health. Equipped: access to data and info about health. Empowered: speaks up, expresses wants, responsible for care. Enabled: allowed to speak up w/o consequence (like being labeled. Networked patients that shift from being passengers to being drivers of their health. Reviewing news stories: cost of intervention, quantify benefits, explain/quantify harms, quality of evidence, disease-mongering, independent sources, new approach vs existing alternative, establish availability, true novelty, rely on a single press release. Empowers, informs, and engages patients and their families. Class speaker next week (@ 10:00, so come if you want??)
