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Encouraging approach by Alaska to meet patients where they are is crucial for improving access to virtual care, especially in rural areas. The challenge persists when there is no local care available or when treatment becomes too costly or too late to improve or intervene. Supporting broader access to care can positively impact health outcomes and disease management for many. #virtualcare #publichealth #healthoutcomes #diseasemanagement #payers #providers

https://lnkd.in/dPWFm7Qy Tell you what, we could call it Public Health...I was forwarded this my colleagues accompanied by eye-rolling emojis. I'm glad that there is recognition of the role of prevention and the need to move upstream to address the root causes of ill health, I'm just puzzled as to how the expert overlooked the existence of Public Health. Public Health is not just for pandemics, we act on the causes of disease at population scale. This includes vaccination and screening programmes for infectious diseases but as many of the diseases of today are not infectious we have a wider role. This involves intensive and long-term policy work with Planning, Transport Planning, and Licensing to prevent health risks such as obesity, alcohol-related harms for example. This expert still sees prevention as medical, calling it pre-NHS and seeing solutions as vaccines in car parks and prescribing of drugs. I would encourage a wider-lens and an appreciation of the real-world work of Public Health so that we have a health system and not a disease care system.

Lower limb wounds can have a significant impact on patient health, but prevention strategies can make all the difference. Focusing on both primary and secondary prevention—reducing risk factors and managing existing conditions—can prevent complications and improve outcomes. Adam Mence of Lohmann & Rauscher UK outlines why a proactive approach to managing lower limb wounds is key: https://bit.ly/49TiQ4j #limbwounds #woundcare

HealthLumen was recently commissioned by Movember to quantify the economic impact of men’s poor health for their UK and Australian ‘Real Face of Men’s Health’ 2024 Reports.   It was found that if all preventable disease cases of the five conditions that cause the largest number of years of life lost to ill-health by men had been avoided in 2023, £9.4 billion could have been saved in the UK and AUD$10.7 billion in Australia. Further, results suggest that increasing NHS Health Check attendance rates to 75% of the eligible population in England from 2024–2040 could save the NHS £2.2 billion in total costs.  Find the key insights from the research here>> https://lnkd.in/eEQ54EmY 

This report by John Deanfield CBE is the best set of proposals to come out of the department of health for years. I do hope that its timing, coming just before an election, will give the report currency with the new government rather than consign it to obscurity. These proposals deserve implementation. They include a digital-first national prevention service accessed through the NHS App, allowing its 33M+ users to access and interact with their health data, make and receive assessments of their health and personalised prevention plans and be signposted to the services they need, both digital and face to face starting with the NHS Health Checks. I could see this growing into a vibrant ecosystem of well-evidenced prevention services. https://lnkd.in/ehCzry2v

The need to re-focus health care from the hospital to the community, from reactive to proactive community-based health creation, is explored in this recent report “Our current approach to health is unsustainable, both for the health of the population and for the economy. A reorientation towards prevention is the only way to avert the growing health and wealth crisis.”

Here are some excellent insights from the admirable Tanya Hall of hearts4heart, whose lived experience as a patient and a patient advocate is of such great value. As she says: “Treating patient organisations as an afterthought poses significant risks for industry and peak organisations. It undermines credibility and trust, as the public may perceive them as out of touch with patient needs.” “This approach also leads to missed insights, resulting in ineffective solutions that fail to address real-world issues that patients experience. Excluding patient voices weakens advocacy efforts, reduces policy influence, and can spark negative public perception.” The message is clear that treating all stakeholders - especially patients - as equal partners is the right and most effective approach. Global Heart Hub Heart Valve Voice Heart Valve Voice Canada Heart Valve Voice US Croí Heart & Stroke Charity Cecilia Salvador Ellen Ross Elena Gallego Díez-Canseco AEPOVAC Guillaume Molinier Jens Naeumann Gil Meltzer Israeli Heart Association Katja Teichert Meine Herzklappe Initiative Herzklappe e.V. Cuore Nostro Alberto Colangelo Luciana Valente Eleonora Selvi Annie Faherty Costelloe Mark O'Donnell

🗞️Great read from World Health Organization on why we need to bring more awareness to #COPD As the 4th leading cause of death☠️, this patient population needs better access to #pulmonaryrehab, #educational materials and more support once they leave the physician’s office. Adding a #digitalhealth component such as my mhealth Inc (US) will allow these patients to learn #selfmanagementskills and #patientempowerment while also staying out of the hospital 💭🫁🏥 https://lnkd.in/e476iYbq

Join us for the December session of Hot Topics in Practice (12/17). In this webinar, presenters will dive into the research behind the Equity Framework for Outbreak Response and Prevention in Healthcare Settings and offer guidance for how LHDs can work with healthcare facilities and the community toward implementing equity-focused outbreak response and prevention interventions. The Hot Topics series is moderated by Sue Grinnell. #nwcphp #hottopics #publichealth #equity #outbreakresponse #outbreakprevention

We are thrilled to share more about our new Special Olympics Systems Change in Inclusive Health Subgrant, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention! This project aims to help catalyze systems change—an approach to problem-solving that confronts the root causes of social issues, not the symptoms—and advance inclusive health at the national, state and local levels. CNHI plans to tailor evidence-based built environment approaches (community design that makes it easier to walk, bike, and roll to everyday destinations) to be responsive to the needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). According to principal investigator Dr. Laura Balis, this project directly supports the 2022 National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, which emphasizes using built environments to make physical activity easier and safer. "This project will lead to an actionable tool public health practitioners can use to consider the needs of people with IDD as they implement changes to the built environment,” Dr. Balis shared. “This project will lead to built environment approaches that are accessible to all and increased physical activity levels for people with IDD. These changes will contribute to alleviating the disparities in physical activity levels and rates of associated chronic diseases in people with IDD.” Our work is supported in part by the Special Olympics Systems Change for Inclusive Health Subgrant, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The contents of this project are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.