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Prevention
The recent hurricanes of September 2005 underline the need for proactive planning, collaboration of local and global resources and continuing corrective feedback-learning from experiences. This is true with healthcare.
Bottom lines of corporate groups helped by prevention.
Keys to prevention include having the decision-makers at the corporate
and government level understand that this is cost-effective.
To be cost effective and improve quality here requires the same efforts: easy early access to natural communication channels for children and adults, and integrated system with continuity, proactive efforts and collaboration, as well as consistent, predictable rewards and repeated rewards.
To be effective, access to children and adults must be through the natural areas and activities of interest, i.e., sports, music, home, gathering places, etc. The programs need the involvement and participation of unions, private and public collaboration.
Endless papers and discussions agree with this approach. Involve people with their interests through all the sensory and motor channels possible. Group sports, music, etc., are more effective than reams of printouts and radio or television ads.
Specific areas of prevention have been described by many, including diet, exercise and lifestyle education as more significant than medications and hospital/technology tools. Of course, there is a place for high-tech treatment, but the cost/benefit is not as great as prevention and early diagnosis and treatment.
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