Health Policy: Summary And Reflection Of Leadership

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Summary and Reflection of Leadership

All topics discussed in the Health Policy (HP) course are somewhat provoking and that is a good thing. They open the door to discussions that otherwise will not be conducted. Along my career, I have held leadership positions that have allowed me to identify with the HP topics in more than one way. I initiated my professional life as a Rehab Director in an oncology hospital. The topic of prevention was always in the forefront when I was treating my patients battling cancer. Although, many cancer conditions are of unknown etiology, others are developed as the result of lifestyle choices. For example, many years ago, smoking was catalogued as “glamorous”, …show more content…

I wonder how our society will be if prevention strategies were exercised not only at community centers, dispensaries, and public hospitals, but at all private practices and hospitals too. Public health has been associated to the low-income population. We all need to support the third revolution aim where well-being is seeing as a resource for everyday life, surpassing disease as the only focus of global health (Breslow, …show more content…

Every day, I see parents struggling to coordinate all the services receiving by their children and many times also facilitating communication among providers. For children with mental conditions, the parents’ struggle is even bigger because they are confronted with the stigma of the condition (i.e. negative attribute, sign of weakness) in many occasions keeping the information in secrecy from their support system: other family members and /or relatives. In my director position, I regularly have the great opportunity to educate parents about services in the community where they could access help, although I must admit mental health resources are still very limited, more so for the younger population. As reported by Sultz and Young (2014), neuropsychiatric disorders are considered the leading cause of disability in the U.S. based on disability life years, therefore, we need to develop more alternatives to treat mental conditions.
Outside the professional arena, I participated in a local community vision leadership program for 12 weeks. Participants came from all sectors of life, allowing me to expose them to my career and the position of physical therapy not only as a remediated service but as a preventive tool. One of the areas that got their immediate attention is when I shared

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