Question

The healthcare delivery system, now with ACA mandates, places increased emphasis on maintaining wellness and on promoting disease avoidance through healthy behaviors and lifestyles. What are some challenges this new orientation poses for our existing system of medical education and training?

Answer 1

Some of the challenges on this new orientation phase are

• One of the challenges is the cultural barrier to promote a healthy lifestyle on the populations. Most of U.S population are immigrants having a different language and low literacy rate limits health education practices by the health care professionals.
• Health care delivery system focused on patient-centered care. So patient autonomy also limits the promotion of healthy behavior.
• promoting equality among all patients without considering an individual cultural background is another challenge.
• Socioeconomic factors limit the health prevention activities on the individuals and the population.
• Lack of coordination of clinical care team makes the existing system incompetent.
• Medical education and training system is still incompetent in attaining the need for health promotion activities.