Sustainability in Health

Much has been heard in sustainability, and environmentalists were the pioneers in protecting the natural environment and its exploitation by man. Then came the architects, concerned about the visual pollution of big cities and the waste of energy and water sources in modern buildings. Economists have hitched a ride on this idea and soon launched the idea of ​​sustainable economy, or we spend on intelligence not to miss over there soon, too bad they themselves do not have the speech itself is used to prevent the global economic crisis.

But what of Health Sustainable? We can save our health to achieve longevity? It is not that kind of sustainability that I mean to address the issue in public health. It turns out that the Federal Constitution guarantees full health care to every resident within our borders, but lacks the formula, almost magical, to comply with that determination. In spite of this legal information, we have a population with a distorted level of their health needs, yet we are compelled to buy her own ideas imposed by the pharmaceutical and hospital equipment. This is increasingly looking for ways to sophisticated diagnoses and medications that promise cures doubt that even God.

How to match patients increasingly demanding and proportionally more resources are finite and scarce?


It seems that sustainability fits in that context sensitive and will require a lot of professionals involved with the general population, especially those with low incomes and tenuous cultural condition. It is up to doctors, dentists, nurses, community workers and all those involved, directly and indirectly with this kind of audience, get a job determined to show that ninety (90) percent of cases of public health are managed and resolved at the primary level and sophisticated tests that should have their hours and time in the moments that are required, so that should not be wasted just to please a more informed patient, or to streamline the care that happens in spurts in the day-to-day basic health units.

Sustainability is humanized, with adequate time to listen to the complaints of patients, but also expresses compliance with the guidelines prescribed because not enough large prescriptions of drugs for each of the symptoms if the patient does not follow the diet required, not comply with requests to do a regular physical activity, among other demands, no remedy will be effective alone, no examination, no matter how improved it is, will be able to prevent the progression of chronic and degenerative diseases, most often present in a population that reaches record highs of longevity.

It is vital to think of solutions with this level of resolution, under pain of seeing our resources drain away in a short time and health to be only a constitutional goal, without the slightest chance of being achieved.