Question

1. The most powerful patient engagement motivator is the patient-physician relationship itself. When patients have been out of touch with their provider for some time, alerts about the need to see their doctor can engage patients and get them started down the road to better health. By leveraging the patient-physician relationship, providers can encourage patients to change their health behavior, and often produce the desired result.

While patient engagement is essential to improving health outcomes, the lack of such engagement is a major contributor to preventable deaths. Many patients are unaware of their risk factors because they have not received recommended screening tests. For example, when a group of 4,000 people were screened for high cholesterol, a government study found, only 40% of those who had this condition were aware of it. Even among people who knew they had high cholesterol, only 14.5% were taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, and just 6.8% had reduced their levels below the goal of 200 mg/dl.

What is your reaction to these findings? In your opinion, what are the main reasons for patients to remain in the dark or to disengage in their own healthcare?

Answer 1

The main reason for patients to remain in dark could be unawareness.Most of the people are unaware of good health.And the factors which will make them healthy.The people are uneducated on the face of health and they don't know that healthy diet and exercise may make them healthy and help them to fight a disease if they become affected with it.

And other reasons include poverty,lack of motivation,mental health issues,history of violence,use of drugs and lack of education etc.

Poverty is one of the major cause of disengagement of people from their own health.They cannot be able to have money for getting treatment and engaagement from doctors.Lack of motivation is also a major cause.