{"id":110,"date":"2015-09-12T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T08:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealhealthcare.net\/?p=110"},"modified":"2015-11-28T21:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T21:18:33","slug":"principles-of-the-6p-system-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/idealhealthcare.net\/index.php\/2015\/09\/12\/principles-of-the-6p-system-in-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles of the 6P System in Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Abstract<\/p>
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This post summarizes the six principles of healthcare derived from observations of the animal kingdom. These principles appear to be relevant and, more importantly, touted as important by healthcare systems all over the world and advocated by the World Health Organization as important components of a healthcare system.<\/p>
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Next, this post uses the six principles to suggest a scoring system that can be used to: (1) measure a given country\u2019s healthcare system\u2019s divergence from achieving an ideal healthcare system, (2) rank countries by how close they are to an ideal healthcare system and (3) guide allocation of healthcare budgets to resources that will help most in achieving an ideal healthcare system.<\/p>
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The next post<\/a> will develop the mathematics for the scoring system.

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What Animals Have Taught Us: Six principles of an ideal healthcare system<\/h1>\n

The previous post<\/a> describes six striking principles of healthcare used in the world of ani\"Owlmals in the wild. Recall that animals far outnumber the human population. They have survived over several millennia\u00a0with many living healthy lives. The principles are simple but it remains to be seen if these can have any value in the human world. We do know, however, that each principle is backed by the World Health Organization. In the next few posts, these principles will be described as the basis of an ideal healthcare system. This will be followed by a detailed description of each of the principles.<\/p>\n

Let us see where wild animals can lead us humans who are educated and trained in the science and art of medicine.<\/p>\n

The 6P scoring\u00a0system is a six-principle based system \u2013 the building blocks of an ideal healthcare system. These principles are now discussed briefly and later are discussed in detailed by considering one principle at a time.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to think about improving healthcare systems. One is to look at the status quo and then to ask the question \u2013 what incremental changes will improve on status quo. The second way is to look at an ideal healthcare system and then ask the question \u2013 how can we borrow elements from\u00a0the ideal healthcare system and import them to various degrees to build a new healthcare\u00a0system. The later approach allows us to think outside the limitations of existing systems and forge inroads into bringing us closer to an ideal healthcare system. It is an alternative but a game-changing\u00a0approach.<\/p>\n

The superior doctor prevents sickness;
\nThe mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness;
\nThe inferior doctor treats actual sickness.<\/em><\/p>\n

- Chinese Proverb
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