Question

In regards to population health: Why do you think there has been a focus on individual, rather than structural, level interventions? What are the advantages and weaknesses of focusing on individuals rather than other levels?

Answer 1

Individual is the base part of the whole healthcare structure . Like in everything base plays the vital role as it's supports the whole above structure , individuals also plays a vital role in the healthcare structure and they are given more priority and focus so that improvement in the healthcare field starts from the the base stone itself . And it leads to betterment of the above levels that are - at family level , community level and society level .

Hence , improvement in health occurs at all levels . Because when implementation of the intervention is done at base level regarding health then the dividual passes it to the further higher levels of the health structure and this is one of the chief advantages . One of the weakness about focusing more at individual level is that if the individual is a non - complaint and does not want change his behaviour or has fear to change his behaviour then it will affect the further higher levels as the individual will not implement and pass on the information about health and other health care services developed by government for the people to their higher levels .