Healthcare Consumerism

Prevention of Chronic Disease (World Economic Forum)

Chronic disease is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Increasingly it affects people in low to middle-income countries as well as in high-income countries.

Chronic diseases impair productivity and lead to associated costs. Multinational companies are using the workplace to promote long-term behavioural changes which will benefit employers, employees and communities.

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Deloitte - Medical Home Study

 

In a medical home model, primary care clinicians and allied professionals provide conventional diagnostic and therapeutic services, as well as coordination of care for patients that require services not available in primary care settings. The primary care clinicians serve as advocates for patients and are paid to coordinate their care, thus averting unnecessary tests and procedures, hospital admissions and avoidable complications.

A “medical home” is not a house, hospital or other building. Rather, it is a term used to describe a health care model in which individuals use primary care practices as the basis for accessible, continuous, comprehensive and integrated care. The goal of the medical home is to provide a patient with a broad spectrum of care, both preventive and curative, over a period of time and to coordinate all of the care the patient receives. Two trends are helping to build momentum around the medical home model: 1) a growing shortage of primary care clinicians due to adverse practice conditions; and 2) the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases among the U.S. population... Download 2008 Medical Home Primary Care Model -- Deloitte Report -- 2008