Health Sciences 1002A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Headache, Problem Solving, Pie Chart
7 Oct 2014
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What are the other: lack of funding from government (threats to funding) Would prefer to spend more time with less patients. Limits his time to spend with individuals: health care providers lacking tools and resources to implement upstream approaches. Time and money to support those who do want to be upstreamists, is low. What was promising for the future: constantly getting requests to speak all over the place, being able to speak to individuals helps spread the upstreamist approach, created network called health begins. Network is a place where people with similar interests can connect. Treating people without tackling the conditions that make them sick is a losing value proposition: very costly, less effective, unjust, unsatisfying, unsustainable model get care) The current standard of care is not good enough. A better standard of care adds social environmental conditions as well as the medical: essential to building a pay-for-value healthcare system (if you"re paying, should.
