Five Engagements That Will Define the Future of Health

~ Jason Schwartz

Alan Weil, the Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs recently gave a talk on health care reform and “The 5 Engagements.” The first two engagements are engaging the whole patient and engaging social supports.

The video below covers those engagements. (The whole talk can be viewed here.) A couple of interesting discussion points include:

  • one’s zip code being as important as your genetics in determining health, and
  • the failure of the health care system to engage natural social supports and instead create artificial supports.


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The similarities between this and Bill White’s model of Recovery Management are striking. It just goes to show that specialty addiction care has a lot to teach the rest of medicine, and we’ll have a lot to learn from watching their successes and failures.

 

Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I no longer work at Dawn Farm and am now the Director of Behavioral Medicine at a community hospital, and a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.