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Prevention is a key focus when it comes to risk factors and disease, but not everyone who requires medical care is unhealthy. HealthMaker Ian Morrison, PhD explains in this video why all types of medical events should be planned for.
It's partly the preventive activity, but it's also I think an orientation that there are things beyond what we classically think of is prevention. The hope would be that by encouraging people to take better care of themselves they will never have to deal with the health system, but that's helpful and hopeful, but really not practical because we all get something somehow, right? Even joggers get disease as we know only too well.
So, the real deal I think is to encourage that the positive aspects to prevention and wellness which I'm very much in favor of, but also recognize that everybody at some point is gonna have opportunity or problem that requires a truly medical intervention. And the question is how do you structure those encounters so that they're optimal from a health creating point of view and they're not damaging from an economic point of view.
Futurist and author Ian Morrison specializes in long-term forecasting and planning with an emphasis on healthcare. He talks about the challenges facing American healthcare and why improving affordability should be a top priority.
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