Emotional Dimensions of Healthcare

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Emotional Dimensions of Healthcare, explores how chronic stress, adverse childhood experiences, and continued negative social determinants such as exposure to community violence and poverty, can create a new normal in people. Yet, our current approach to health care, with all of its amazing technological advances, doesn’t seem to notice the emotional component of health. This is not a trivial issue. The cost of this failure to our nation and its citizens is high and getting higher. There is hope. Emotional Dimensions of Healthcare surveys many of the attempts that have been made to take a holistic approach to health care in which the patient’s emotional history is paramount. Some of these efforts have been more fruitful than others. The book also provides a prescription for better health, featuring innovative ideas already being tried as well as the best ideas that are yet untried. The result is a new roadmap to a new era of health care that can bring a renewal of both longevity and quality of life for millions of Americans.

HEALTH CARE

70% of primary care visits are for psychosocial reasons.  So says the Milbank Foundation study of thousands of patients.  This may be a surprise to many, but its not to most primary care providers who struggle to respond to these needs and who often feel helpless as they watch the progression of chronic diseases driven by "poor choices." 

This book looks at the "why" in those "poor choices," the role they serve in people's lives and the way to help them change those behaviors.  It harnesses people's inherent need to feel better, not just physically, but emotionally and to offer a way to begin to gain a measure of control over the explosion of chronic disease.

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE

However well a behavioral health provider may have been fulfilling their role in the recovery of those with serious mental illness, we all know that those individuals often get sick and die much earlier than the rest of us...from preventable diseases.

This book crafts a new paradigm, Integrated Care 4.0 which points the way to improved health and wellbeing.  For all of us.  Along the way it illuminates an entirely new role for the behavioral health community to play in healthcare, in population health initiatives and in the achievement of the Triple Aim.
 

HEALTH SYSTEMS & PAYORS & POLICY

There is an undeniable link between our emotions, our behaviors and our poor health outcomes.  Studies show that 70% of primary care visits are for psychosocial reasons.  Lifestyle diseases are emerging as profound drivers of otherwise preventable chronic diseases and ever growing costs.  

This book articulates the irrefutable connection between the pervasiveness of stress,in American life, the emotional distress it creates and the psychological and physiological consequences that lead to chronic disease. It also offers a radical prescription for the healthcare system, taking a giant leap forward towards realization of the Triple Aim.

Harness the power of the Emotional Dimensions of Healthcare to improve your patient's health, lower their cost and give them happier lives.