While the "baby boomer" generation is drifting toward various forms of alternative health care, American medicine has shifted from the physician to managed care and rationing. The powerful doctor-patient relationship has been watered down and filtered through a complex system. As medicine touts it's technological advances and scientific breakthroughs, the biggest opportunities for improving Americans' health still lies ahead: changing unhealthy behaviors.
The primary goal set by Healthy People 2010, to ‘increase the quality and years of healthy life’ falls right into the Chiropractic paradigm. Yet a survey conducted among chiropractic students at one college found a lack of understanding of what is "public health," and how they fit into the picture of implementing the nation's health priorities. Lifestyle choices play a significant role in the top three causes of mortality today, namely, heart disease, cancer and cerebrovascular disease. It is time to re-focus public health education in the chiropractic college setting. Challenges influencing the design of public health courses will be discussed.
Learning Objectives: The participants will recognize the challenges influencing the design of public health courses at chiropractic institutions
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I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.