- Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date.
- What data did you collect?
- What is your initial impression of the data?
- How have the data you have collected this week changed/progressed your thinking about your research project?
- What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data?
- What are your next steps?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hpm.719
- Healthcare with market oriented mind-set has too many flaws we have seen in the past
- Objective should be to achieve “equity health”
- Integrated district health care systems would be best for overall health care needs
- Targets should not be driven by “international agendas
The argument of this reading in many ways I believe has a holistic approach to the “healthconomic” crisis we face in our country. The idea of integrated district health care systems can be seen as getting to the source of the problem. Holistic healing is all about finding the root cause. Privatization, marketization, competition, etc. Are ideaologies that should not cross into the health care sector of our society. I would also argue, that these district systems, should be based in the ideas of caring for the patient by curing the symptoms vs. treating/alleviating the symptoms, and giving the patient the proper guidance towards living a healthy lifestyle without the need of going to the doctors so often. Self-sufficiency and efficiency are to integral ideals within neoliberalism. If we can create a society of people who are more self-sufficient with their health, need less care, and can spread awareness to each other, this in turn would create for a much more efficient group of human beings in every way. People living with more vitality and energy with more resistance to sickness can only create for a more efficient work force.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5688676/
- Emphasis on free-market rather than right to health is extremely detrimental to the people
- Chile was one of first countries to introduce neoliberal reforms – created inequalities and stratification
- Greeces reforms have resulted in deterioration in quality of healthcare
- Disabled people are put at a major disadvantage
This article goes in depth about specifically how disabled people are put at an extreme disadvantage in a privatized health care industry. Free-market, competition, etc. in many ways go against the needs of the general public and against the needs of disabled people. With these kinds of ideologies running through the minds of the leaders of our society, the goal is not to get disabled people able again (of course some ailments we cannot completely reverse), but, for instance Dr.Sebi was able to cure a man of blindness through a natural remedies. If we could reduce cancer rates, people would not have to spend so much money and time in the hospitals, and spend more time being more efficient in the work force.
I feel that my argument is beginning to develop into how holistic health care, understanding the basis of it, and integrating into the right to health for everyone, would create a more efficient population of people in every way. Better health, more efficiency, happier people, etc. They go with each other. Deepak Chopra has created a survey on twitter for people to look at and complete which he puts out everyday. It is a survey to check on your well being. Studies have found that a lesser well-being and the lower the quality of life is for someone is correlated with more sickness. (I will find interview I watched of him talking about this, and studies) The quality of peoples lives with increase as they are healthier. The two go hand in hand. Better health would be in the interest of the economy.