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Scientists now know that the living and working conditions that we all are part of have more than twice the impact on our health than does our genetic code, and living and working conditions, the structures of our environments, the ways in which our social fabric is woven together, and the impact those have on our behaviors, all together, those have more than five times the impact on our health than do all the pills and procedures administered by doctors and hospitals combined.
That study illustrates what my friends in public health often say these days: that one's zip code matters more than your genetic code.
They matter to our health, and therefore our healthcare professionals should do something about it.
In a recent survey done in the U.S. among physicians, over 1,000 physicians, 80 percent of them actually said that they know that their patients' upstream problems are as important as their health issues, as their medical problems, and yet despite that widespread awareness of the importance of upstream issues, only one in five doctors said they had any sense of confidence to address those issues, to improve health where it begins.
They mobilize the resources to create a solution, both within the clinical system, and then by bringing in people from public health, from other sectors, lawyers, whoever is willing to play ball, let's bring in to create a solution that makes sense, to take those patients who actually have clinical problems and address their root causes together by linking them to the resources you need.
There are stories out there of Veronica and many more like her, people who are coming to the healthcare system and getting a glimpse of what it feels like to be part of something that works, a health care system that stops bouncing you back and forth but actually improves your health, listens to you who you are, addresses the context of your life, whether you're rich or poor or middle class.
Healthcare systems and payers can start to bring in public health agencies and departments and say, let's look at our data together.
Medical schools, nursing schools, all sorts of health professional education programs can help by training the next generation of upstreamists.
We can also make sure that these schools certify a backbone of the upstream approach, and that's the community health worker.
Are there barriers to health that I'm just not aware of, and more importantly, if there are barriers that I'm surfacing, if I'm coming to you and I'm saying I think have a problem with my apartment or at my workplace or I don't have access to transportation, or there's a park that's way too far, so sorry doctor, I can't take your advice to go and jog, if those problems exist, then doctor, are you willing to listen?
And what can we do together to improve my health where it begins?
If we're all able to do this work, doctors and healthcare systems, payers, and all of us together, we'll realize something about health.
We can improve health where it begins.
Who the heck is a professor of global health in that country?
It is going to help us manage our careers and lead lives of satisfaction and hope and happiness and health, but in the past, we've often looked at information technology and our eyes have only seen the T, the technology, the hardware, because that's what was physical.
For those who rely on ventilators to breathe, and for those who don't have access to adequate, free health care.
I want to tell you how 20,000 remarkable young people from over 100 countries ended up in Cuba and are transforming health in their communities.
The hope is that they will help transform access to care, the health picture in impoverished areas, and even the way medicine itself is learned and practiced, and that they will become pioneers in our global reach for universal health coverage, surely a tall order.
First, they just don't have enough doctors, and where they do, their distribution is skewed against the poor, because our global health crisis is fed by a crisis in human resources.
We are short four to seven million health workers just to meet basic needs, and the problem is everywhere.
The second reasons students flock to Cuba is the island's own health report card, relying on strong primary care.
A commission from The Lancet rates Cuba among the best performing middle-income countries in health.
Cuba has similar life expectancy and lower infant mortality than the United States, with fewer disparities, while spending per person one 20th of what we do on health here in the USA.
Third, they learn public health: to assess their patients' drinking water, housing, social and economic conditions.
And finally, they're taught over and over again the importance of prevention, especially as chronic diseases cripple health systems worldwide.
Upon graduation, these doctors share their knowledge with nurse's aids, midwives, community health workers, to help them become better at what they do, not to replace them, to work with shamans and traditional healers.
And government is paying attention, upholding the hospital as a model of rural public health for Honduras.
Hundreds of Haitian graduates had to pick up the pieces, overcome their own heartbreak, and then pick up the burden of building a new public health system for Haiti.
Today, with aid of organizations and governments from Norway to Cuba to Brazil, dozens of new health centers have been built, staffed, and in 35 cases, headed by ELAM graduates.
Take a look: 748 Haitian graduates by 2012, when cholera struck, nearly half working in the public health sector but one quarter unemployed, and 110 had left Haiti altogether.
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