Question

Health care planners could be effective and efficient if they used the concept of the natural history of disease and the levels of prevention to design services that intervene at the weakest link in the chain of progression of specific diseases. Instead, most focus on high-technology solutions to preventable problems while experts know that high-technology solutions do not address health disparities, the major causes of diseases and disabilities. What characteristics of the medical care culture hinder the prevention focus?

Answer 1

charecteristics of the medical care culture hinder the high-technology solutions:
   Health care planners need to determine the palyers in the health care culture before determining motives and characteristics..High-technology can provide prevention from pain,acute and chronic illness..american patient wants instant cures..but this preventive care cannot and requires effort on the patient's part..one of the common most example is type 2 diabetes it is hard to treat and will not modify persons lifestyle to prevent further complications such as heart diseases,kidney diseases,eye diseases.diet regulation ,exercise,avoiding smoking and alcohol can prevent the diabetes..
   Culture is the most important factor driving the development and use of technology..it drives medical liability..medical malpractices liability make problem between technological advances and injuries when it fail..patient need the latest technogy the general culture propensity to factor technogical solutions to medical problems..This makes physicians to get pressure on latest technology..long-term cultural belief on technology can improve lives,physicians attitudes like self-image and competition for patients make physicians to choose new technology to make the patient comfortable,physician specialization in technology makes demand for more technology,Americans research,physician business lead to rapid dissemination of technology..Reimbursement for new technology,European countries and united states controls by regulating medical technology..
Recommendation:
   There is lack of legal or policy solutions to the technology,social demands,technology innovation,physicians liability exposure is an inevitable consequence..Negligence law is basically a creature of technology due to advanced technology can cause increase the number of negligence claims..Lawsuits increase in frequency advance in medicine make it more effective and more dangerous for physicians..recurrent medical liability makes malpractice insurance premiums..building a safer health system,high lights in advanced technology contribute to medical error..
    Policy issues and insurance rates are affecting high-technology services..negative biomedical research also affects the technology,family factors,professional opportunities, future earning potencial,spousal job oppurtunities play a role in hinder the high-technology...medical standards like procedures,technique and equipment also causes for this..Both liability reform and health care reform are impossible without cultural aspects of technologies..inadequacy of health insurance make incentive for litigation..cultural expectations make manufacturers and physicians to use the latest technology without adequately assessing its value..