Impact On Health Promotion
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Medical care of the individual does have an impact on health promotion and prevention for the general population. Primarily because properly educated patients can become change agents for their family, neighbors and even broader community members. Individual patients that successfully manage their diabetes or can share their story of suffering endured from cancer as a result of lifelong tobacco use for example demonstrates how the two systems can work in tandem.
Currently, ”healthcare administration has largely existed to manage the business of “illness services” delivery, principally one patient at a time. Public health practice, on the other hand, has sought to protect and manage the well-being of populations…[together] these
disciplines have been necessary and complementary to healthcare delivery” and management (Zismer, 2013, p. 253). Once there is full agreement and cooperation between the two there is better delivery of services and better outcomes for current and future patients in need of services.
The benefits of the two entities working together outweigh any policy that may be a contradiction. Because, “at the broadest level public health and health care confront the same challenge-injury and disease-and further the same overarching goal-improving health" (Gostin, Jacobson, Record, & Hardcastle, 2011, p. 1791). Ultimately, the health of both individuals and the population in general want the same thing, longevity and good health. Therefore, when public health and health care work together the positives dispel any negatives.
Reference
GOSTIN, L. O., JACOBSON, P. D., RECORD, K. L., & HARDCASTLE, L. E. (2011). RESTORING HEALTH TO HEALTH REFORM: INTEGRATING MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH TO ADVANCE THE POPULATION'S WELL-BEING. University Of Pennsylvania Law Review, 159(6), 1777-1823.
Zismer, D. K. (2013). An Argument for the Integration of Healthcare Management With Public Health Practice. Journal Of Healthcare Management, 58(4), 253-257.
Medical care of the individual does have an impact on health promotion and prevention for the general population. Primarily because properly educated patients can become change agents for their family, neighbors and even broader community members. Individual patients that successfully manage their diabetes or can share their story of suffering endured from cancer as a result of lifelong tobacco use for example demonstrates how the two systems can work in tandem.
Currently, ”healthcare administration has largely existed to manage the business of “illness services” delivery, principally one patient at a time. Public health practice, on the other hand, has sought to protect and manage the well-being of populations…[together] these
disciplines have been necessary and complementary to healthcare delivery” and management (Zismer, 2013, p. 253). Once there is full agreement and cooperation between the two there is better delivery of services and better outcomes for current and future patients in need of services.
The benefits of the two entities working together outweigh any policy that may be a contradiction. Because, “at the broadest level public health and health care confront the same challenge-injury and disease-and further the same overarching goal-improving health" (Gostin, Jacobson, Record, & Hardcastle, 2011, p. 1791). Ultimately, the health of both individuals and the population in general want the same thing, longevity and good health. Therefore, when public health and health care work together the positives dispel any negatives.
Reference
GOSTIN, L. O., JACOBSON, P. D., RECORD, K. L., & HARDCASTLE, L. E. (2011). RESTORING HEALTH TO HEALTH REFORM: INTEGRATING MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH TO ADVANCE THE POPULATION'S WELL-BEING. University Of Pennsylvania Law Review, 159(6), 1777-1823.
Zismer, D. K. (2013). An Argument for the Integration of Healthcare Management With Public Health Practice. Journal Of Healthcare Management, 58(4), 253-257.