Prevention is key, of course, to those that have the ability to prevent exacerbations in health. . . but it is also safe to say that our current lifestyles will develop chronic diseases for those that cannot take preventive measures with the progress of their symptoms, so how can we have a preventive approach to an inevitable occurrence? In addition, the questions posed by Professor Stevens are so difficult to answer, because I begin to think about our discussion on all contributing factors to prevention and health care complications (i.e. the intermixing of SES, race, education, and access – to name a few).
As a preventive method: connecting patients, their families and healthcare providers to the right information at the right time (education). This would result on patient empowerment and control of their health.
We need to evaluate the quality of life in this country and make it a priority over money. Prevention sounds ideal, but like it was mentioned by our lecturer the day we watched Sicko, “Public health is key to good health”
In addition, “let a person live 90 years of good health and not crappy but immense effort in the last 6 months”. This can be through, prevention, education, and maintenance/control before it’s too late.
This is a definite tough question to answer. Too many factors are associated…
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