Health For US All

Dr Mary Zennett

Description

The principles of health reform are actually simple, but remain formidable due to the size and complexity of the necessary implementation.The purpose of this book, in this era of health reform, is to educate and offer potential solutions that represent an actual overhaul of the existing health care system, based on core-level principles and values:
People and principles before profits and paperwork, founded on the Hippocratic Oath-do no harm.
The book integrates a health reform model that incorporates health, wellness and prevention into the current illness delivery model, predicted to bankrupt the U.S. economy faster than any other sector without massive reform. Hence the urgency for widespread education on these vital reform principles- before it is too late.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Santé du quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Fitness
• Health
• Alternative Therapies

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456601973
• Langue: English

Extrait

What people are saying about Health for Us All:
“Finally—a book that spells out what so many in the healthcare field have been thinking and wanting for years! HEALTH FOR US ALL provides a highly practical, essential health reform plan for our country. As a clinical psychologist who is very solution-oriented, I’m excited that Dr. Mary Zennett has so expertly and intelligently outlined a comprehensive health plan proposal that emphasizes prevention and wellness, not just treatment of illness and symptoms. In this innovative, inspiring, and workable model, conventional treatment can easily be combined with effective complementary and alternative methods, which will be more cost-effective for everyone concerned. The wealth of information packed into Health for Us All helps all caring and responsible practitioners with their patients and clients. It’s difficult to find words which adequately describe how passionately I feel about the contents of this book. This is an absolute must-read!”—Shoshana Bennett, Ph.D., author, Postpartum Depression for Dummies, and internationally renowned speaker and trainer, ClearSky-Inc.com
 
“Mary Z has written a tremendously important book. She outlines in great detail the many failures of our current healthcare system. From here she goes to highlight the broad benefits of complementary and alternative medicine both in clinical and economic terms. She correctly advocates CAM as a big part of the solution to our current national healthcare mess. Dr. Z shares her considerable wisdom and insight to bring us closer to a truly comprehensive model of healthcare that will benefit all Americans. Everyone concerned with the creation of healthcare system that cares for health should read this book.”—Scott Shannon, M.D., assistant clinical professor, University of Colorado; department of child psychiatry, Children’s Hospital, Denver; director of the first university-based integrative child psychiatry clinic in the United States; founding member of the American Holistic Medical Association, www.wholeness.com
 
“Dr. Mary is a passionate leader of health reform. Her book is filled with information that will transform our fractured healthcare system from disease to wellness…get informed on how you can help yourself. The life you save may be your own. Thanks, Doc!”—Cynthia Brian, the Oprah of the Airwaves; Starstyle—Be the Star You Are!; www.cynthiabrian.com .
 
“I…am impressed by your mission to affect real changes in the American health care system and by your activism to get that accomplished. I even think you should be part of a task force with the new administration to bring meaningful changes about; they will need people like you who are knowledgeable on the provider side and compassionate enough to be rooted in the patient side as well.”
— Britt Mittemeijer; www.EasyHealthAndWellness.com ; blog: www.easyhealthandwellness.blogspot.com
 


 
Health For US All
The Transformation of U.S. Health Care
by
Dr Mary Zennett
 
Copyright 2011 Dr Mary Zennett,
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To the good health and well-being of
all United States citizens
 


 
Health For US All
The Transformation of U.S. Health Care
 

 

 
Preface
 
AS A HEALTH-CARE PROVIDER FOR MORE than twenty years, I understand well why the time has come to think about a new health-care system.
The principles of health transformation are actually simple, but they remain formidable because of the large-scale implementation needed. The purpose of this book is to educate and offer potential solutions that represent a complete overhaul of the existing health-care system, based on core-level principles and values.
I graduated from a large, reputable Midwestern medical school and completed my adult psychiatry training and child/adolescent fellowship at equally well-regarded institutions. I’ve had my own thriving private practice for years and also have worked in large community mental health centers.
I’ve cared for patients and families from all walks of life—from families very concerned about their children with ADD, bipolar disorder, and autism, to the chronically mentally ill, the homeless, and the chemically dependent. I’ve treated many active-duty soldiers, veterans, and their families.
In the late 1990s I became so disheartened with the system that governed the practice of medicine that I completed a two-year curriculum for physicians and earned an executive MBA. This rigorous training taught me not to be afraid of the system but to evaluate the seeming complexities and components critically and strategically. I drew on those skills frequently while formulating recommendations that I believe will lead to health transformation in the upcoming decade.
The primary purpose of any health-care delivery system is to promote the health and well-being of the people for which it cares. Our current disease-focused industry requires a large-scale transformation that places people first, promotes the quality of their lives, and is proactive about their health from before birth to their last days.
In reality, the current U.S. health-delivery system is so complex, so bureaucratic, and so cumbersome that the patient has been lost in the equation. In their quest for health, people are caught between the two worlds of medicine: conventional medicine and complementary medicine. This book is dedicated to accelerating the integration of these two worlds of health care into a system I call transformational health. Indeed, this process has been initiated, but progress is slow. Certainly, for patients who access health care in both models, this integration cannot come fast enough.
A transformational health-delivery system prevents illness in the first place; such a system is built on relationships, research, individualized care, and most important, hope. It seeks input from the people it serves and from the health practitioners who partner with their patients on lifelong journeys of health and healing. Transformational health integrates the best of both worlds of medicine, empowers people to get healthy and stay healthy, and operates efficiently and cost-effectively. It is a system where principles come before paperwork and people are of far greater value than profits.
In this book, I propose a plan for the integration of conventional and complementary and alternative medicine, as well as changes—some dramatic—to the conventional system. The goal is to create a new health system—one that is much more efficient, streamlined, and focused on long-term health and quality of life for all Americans.
I want to make the principles of health transformation understandable so every citizen—including legislators responsible for decision making—embraces them. Such a model empowers citizens, health providers, and allied health professionals to think and act proactively in advocating and crafting health-transformation efforts.
This call to action will stretch each of us outside of our comfort zone, but it is a necessary process of any transformational effort. In reality, with the national projections for health-care costs rising in the next ten years, we do not have any other choice. The only alternative is to sit passively and watch our federal budget go bankrupt, and quite frankly, as Americans, this cannot be an option.
The prospect of a healthy America truly affords hope for all. Besides greatly enhancing quality of life and national productivity, establishing a global model of health will set an example for other countries who, like us, are struggling with skyrocketing health costs and escalating rates of chronic illness.
Since the first edition of this book, much is evolving in our nation's ability- or inability- to fund any aspects of health reform in a meaningful way. Any and all policy recommendations must strongly take into account progress on reducing the currently unfathomable national debt. Some hard work and bipartisan cooperation may, in time, make funding available for research studies documenting the validity of natural health and integrative medicine. For certain, any government initiatives must incorporate the voice of the American people- for this is the people's health plan, above and beyond anything else. 
Along with writing this book, I recently founded Peace, Love and Liberty, LLC. The purpose of this organization is to educate citizens at a grassroots level and encourage activism in government and public policy. My fervent hope is that our current leaders will embrace the depth and scope of these issues and how their decisions today directly impact the American people and future generations.
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