Foundations Class Lecture: April 3


Today during Professor Flick's Lecture, we learned about the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and its “Triple Aim” initiative. This initiative includes goals to improve overall patient experience of care, improve health of populations, and reduce the per capita cost of health care.

We also discussed health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. We talked about various barriers to this including low reading levels when asked to fill out documentation, lack of transportation to appointments, and lack of education in understanding personal health management.  

The take home message for me was the reminder that our healthcare system needs a lot of improvement especially in developing a more holistic approach or model. I am thankful occupational therapy has that holistic view of a patient and hopefully overtime the system itself along with other disciplines will too.

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