Question

Discuss why consumers are being encouraged to take a more active role in their health care.

Answer 1

Health care is the management of  health by means of prevention,treatment of illness,injury through the services offered by the medical and allied health professionals.It is important to reduce the unnecessary disability and premature death.

The strong influence by the behavioural choices consumers makes are increasing prevelance of preventable chronic condition and the suboptimal use of health care resources.Health care system is misused by intensifying the cost burden which is imposed by increased prevelance of chronic illness.The governmental agencies and private insures have interest in helping consumers to adopt healthier life and giving more importance for concious health care consumption.Payors can prevent many chronic disease and ensuring the health care resources should be used more wisely and this method can encourage the consumers to make better choices.When the number of payors increase there will be increase in priority for consumers enagagement.Engaging the consumers requires a fundamental mind shift for payors and they think that of their members as partners in health management.Payors also need to cooperate with other stake holders which include provide ,local authorirties,and not for profit organisation if they want to drive changes in consumer behaviour.The consumer movement has spread in to health care fields with many consumers requesting to be active participate in decision maing regarding thier own health care treatment.providers can no longer presume to decide unilaterally what is the best treatment for a patient.Consumers could be motivated to compare health plans according to the cost,benefits and quality of care information received and select health plans that give the best value.This would encourage health plans to be responsive to the consumers needs and to compete for enrollees on the basis of cost and performance.

By enhancing the consumer minded approach to the health care more inclined to connect through quality,cost and overall value.