What is wrong with health care in Country X?

Imagine a faraway, fictional land with real health care problems. Any resemblance to a country you may know is purely coincidental.

Most people have little free time or incentive to exercise
For the past 60-80 years, economic and technological progress has enabled everyone to reduce individual physical effort and spend an increasing share of their time seated, preferably in front of electronic screens.

They have invented exercise to replace the loss of activity, but it's very difficult to add gym or sport time in to the average work day. Many people spend > 1.5 hours per day going to and from their jobs.

Their society values earning large sums of money, so lower-income workers take more than one job, leaving them even less time than the others. Lower education is associated with lower health.

Poor food habits are incentivized

It is easier to eat out in fast-food chains, rather than spend the time to prepare

Fast food chains are cheaper than restaurants with fresh food

Portion sizes are huge.

Ads everywhere push people to eat more and more.

People rush through meals and repeat them frequently.

The sicker the peope are, the more health care professionals earn

The obesity generated by sedentariness and poor diet drives more and more people to see health care professionals for whom increased activity generates increased income.

Tobacco manufacturers continue to produce their toxic products as do many others.

Healthcare professionals become specialized and information coordination is random
Most professionals' IT installation are internal and not linked to the outside world

There are virtually no possibilities for the consumer to know the results obtained by the healthcare professionals.

Oddly enough, despite all the scientific research on infinite subjects, health care professionals have not been able to agree on how their own output should be measured.

Note : life expectancy continued to rise during all of the above...but that was before...Any bet on how the coming generations fare?

Where do you start to fix this? Food and Sport should be high on the list.

Comments

[NC Furniture]

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[Pat McCaffrey]

Hi Denise. This is Pat McCaffrey from Cleveland. We worked together in Axios back in the day. I was able to find you as you just recently signed up for the Cleveland Clinic CME twitter account that I co-manage. I now work for the Cleveland Clinic as the CME Marketing & Communications Manager. Anyway I just wanted to say hi. Its good to see you.