1) Answer the following questions after reading the discussion
2) use the same formatting style
3)You do a great job at elaborating acute and chronic care and its important role it
plays in your setting. You mentioned “Preventive care is essential, though is a less powerful subsegment in the segment.” Could you please elaborate more on preventive care? Do you think your institution should shift its interest about which type of care they prioritise?
Unit 1 Question 2 Discussion Forum
What are the types of care, acute, chronic, and/or preventive, in your setting?
The three significant forms of care are acute care, chronic care, and preventive care, which form a large part of health care. Among these, chronic care is the most important in my practice. Diabetes, hypertension, and cardiac diseases are the most typical illnesses that cause patients to seek care. These diseases need regular follow-up, dosage modification, and counseling to avoid danger in these diseases and enhance the standard of living 14.
Acute care also stabilizes and treats specific, short, time-limited health problems, including infections, injuries, and clinical flare-ups of chronic disorders 14. They all provide detailed accounts of the type of care envisaged in managing patients in their early admission phase to contain their clinical deterioration. Preventive care is essential, though it is a less powerful subsegment in the segment. Healthcare services like routine assessments, immunizations, preventive health care, and diet counseling can be provided to patients to lower their vulnerability to illnesses that can be prevented.
Does one type predominate? Has that changed from 15 years ago?
Chronic care is more prevalent in my setting, which is quite different from what it was 15 years ago. Before, acute care only dominated the market since the healthcare system was mainly based on treating diseases 14. Conversely, with increased proportions of chronic diseases and populations aging and becoming more sedentary, inactivity, or lack of work-related physical exertion, there is a built-up interest in the management of chronic illnesses. There has also been an increase in preventative healthcare, given that most healthcare organizations have awoken to the benefit of early health checks concerning diseases.
Do you and your institution see any specific changes in care in your setting in the next 10 years?
The next decade will likely be characterized by several changes, of which the integration of digital health technologies is expected to experience the most growth. Monitoring chronic illnesses should improve with wearables and telehealth applications that will likely empower patients 14. Additionally, people talked about personalizing medicines due to the development of genomic research in the future.
Increases in the importance of preventive care may be observed as more patients are motivated by and insured through value-based care systems that promote early preventative care to cut costs. There could be the need to assess at-risk subgroups, and predictive analytics may similarly gain relevance to facilitate early preventive action 14. Besides, integrating diverse professionals into a team will be necessary. The proposed training is to prioritize the concepts of team-based care and culture change, which will enable the healthcare professionals better to handle the mechanistic of chronic and preventive care. Hence, they seek to establish a new system of healthcare that is anticipatory, patient-oriented, and technologically driven.
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