Prevention is the best solution for people in the United States to get better health care, according to the opinion of public health. I am in favor of this perspective, so I would like take this concept back to my home country as a best practice.
From my point of view, education is the best and the most effective way to promote prevention of disease. People keep making the same mistake because of their ignorance; however, education can eliminate their blind spot and guide them to a right track. For instance, people used to think that HIV can be infected through saliva, but now they know that is not true. Because of the spread out of the information, prevention of HIV is effectively works. Although I cannot experience how Americans take action to perform prevention, their emphasis …show more content…
to adopt advanced technology on software. As I mentioned in the class, it is very important to get patients health history connected between doctors or hospital. Every time a new patient goes to see a doctor, they have to fill out the form at least fifteen minutes; moreover, the form is the same most of the time. If there is a system that all doctors can use and share information, patients no longer need to spend time on filling tedious forms again and again. Or they can have an online form to let patient to fill, and that makes life easier. Here’s a true example, an immigrant patient needs to have treatment of physical therapy and acupuncture from different doctors, who locate at different places; however, they work at the same company. The patient, who can barely understand English, is asked to fill out forms accordingly with translator, so he has to find a translator who is available for two days during weekday to help him out. If the digital health is adopted, this scenario can be avoided. In general, patients here want to get the most convenient health care from provider, so constant reformation is highly needed to improve the health care
From my point of view, education is the best and the most effective way to promote prevention of disease. People keep making the same mistake because of their ignorance; however, education can eliminate their blind spot and guide them to a right track. For instance, people used to think that HIV can be infected through saliva, but now they know that is not true. Because of the spread out of the information, prevention of HIV is effectively works. Although I cannot experience how Americans take action to perform prevention, their emphasis …show more content…
to adopt advanced technology on software. As I mentioned in the class, it is very important to get patients health history connected between doctors or hospital. Every time a new patient goes to see a doctor, they have to fill out the form at least fifteen minutes; moreover, the form is the same most of the time. If there is a system that all doctors can use and share information, patients no longer need to spend time on filling tedious forms again and again. Or they can have an online form to let patient to fill, and that makes life easier. Here’s a true example, an immigrant patient needs to have treatment of physical therapy and acupuncture from different doctors, who locate at different places; however, they work at the same company. The patient, who can barely understand English, is asked to fill out forms accordingly with translator, so he has to find a translator who is available for two days during weekday to help him out. If the digital health is adopted, this scenario can be avoided. In general, patients here want to get the most convenient health care from provider, so constant reformation is highly needed to improve the health care