13th output
- 1. SHAPING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE ALFONSO SYOEI R. YOSHIDA – 13TH OUTPUT REQUIREMENT FOR MI 298
- 2. HEALTH “HEALTH” - "State of complete physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.“ (WHO) Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care: From Alma-Ata towards Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals We, the participants of the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, acknowledge the contribution of health to decades of global social and economic development and affirm our commitment to primary health care (PHC) in pursuit of health and well-being for all, leaving no one behind. We envision: Societies and environments that prioritize and protect people's health; Health care that is available and affordable for everyone, everywhere; Health care of good quality that treats people with respect and dignity; People engaged in their own health.
- 3. PHILIPPINE ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS Specialty organization by the and for the family practitioner, recognized by the Philippine Medical Association, Aims to provide family physicians for every Filipino families Recognizes the limited capacity and inefficiency of the health care delivery system in our country the academy works in order to fill in this gap through strengthening the PRIMARY HEALTH CARE International studies show that the strength of a country’s primary care system is associated with improved population health outcomes for all-cause mortality, all-cause premature mortality, and cause-specific premature mortality from major respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. This relationship is significant after controlling for determinants of population health at the macro- level (GDP per capita, total physicians per one thousand population, percentage of elderly) and micro- level (average number of ambulatory care visits, per capita income, alcohol and tobacco consumption).What are the advantages and disadvantages of restructuring a health care system to be more focused on primary care services? January 2004 http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/74704/E82997.pdf
- 4. HOW DOES THE SPECIALTY ORGANIZATION PREPARE FOR FUTURE HEALTHCARE OF OUR COUNTRY? Recognizing the limitation of resources, technology and infrastructure, the specialty organization addresses the gap of our country’s healthcare system through the following; STAKEHOLDERS By strengthening the local health units for equitable, continuing healthcare HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS Providing continuing medical education activity to uplift the physician’s capability TECHNOLOGY Although still in infancy, academy engages and encourages utilization of information technology as part of every member’s competency
- 5. HOW CAN THE SPECIALTY ORGANIZATION CONTRIBUTE IN SHAPING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM OF OUR COUNTRY THROUGH KUBRICK’S METHOD? Every hospital should have a patient advisory board including patients who have been treated at that facility • Our country’s local health facility do hold BARANGAY HEALTH BOARD to which doctors, local health workers and representative of support group organized by the patient consists • The academy can expand this to a hospital level Hospital managers and administrators should organize healthcare hacking events • The specialty organization is not adept as of the moment technologically to engage in this kind of activity • However the academy holds information technology as one of its core competency in order to grow in this field Healthcare event organizers should include patients in the planning of their conferences • As yet the conferences of the specialty organization is purely academic and there should be a shift in this trend Startup incubators should connect engineers and developers to patients who can tell them their needs • Having information technology as its core competency, the academy engages in utilizing electronic format for learning such as webinars which is a linkages of information technologies and doctors. Hopefully this will gain grounds in connecting to include the needs of the patient
- 6. THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE DELIVERY AS PER PRIMARY CARE SPECIALIST The development of our healthcare delivery system is still slow progressing in our country’s case The technological advancement as well as infrastructure is far lagging behind comparing to that of other country The academy views that strengthening the primary care of our country as top priority in filling the gap to improve the healthcare delivery status However, technological advancement should be included in the healthcare development process in due projection of the future