Sociology

Health care services in the world as a whole requires incorporation of mechanism from various knowledge areas since the process of development and growth depends on the quality of health care services provided. It is noteworthy for policy makers in health care to focus on improving health services instead of driving a lot of resources in health facilities centered on provision of acute health services and ignoring the need for good health services. Despite the fact that many states have committed themselves to fund health services through taxation or public funding from social insurance, there is greater need for integrating devices that will manage the high demand for policy makers in health care to develop appropriate health care services so as to have a new approach of dealing with diseases that have been responsible for high rates of deaths in the current century (Hunter, 2009).

Change of paradigm in healthcare
Health care requires an urgent new paradigm based on a holistic point of view as well as creating favorable conditions in the health sector. What is needed is identifying assets and use them to construct positive health patterns. In 1979, the foresight seminar explored vital dimensions that found out that acute health care was not meeting customer needs thus absence of such allopathic standard made consumers to start looking for alternative solutions most especially those that integrates environmental and nutritional factors (I.A.F, 2007).

For effective transformation of health care into advanced service providers, there is greater need for public health leaders to begin working with people by creating tipping policies for change as this will ensure that people are reconnected with their health thus becoming key producers in health care sector. By taking such strategies, it will be easy to start changing sick communities into more healthy communities. It should be understood that health cannot be produced by a specific sector because it is cross-sectoral. Thus, empowering societies will ensure that communities maintain health assets that will guarantee greater management of their health. According to a seminar held in 1993 December on the need of emerging new paradigm for health care reform, most speakers pointed out that development in medical skills and knowledge promotes effective promotion technologies backed by effective policies. Similarly, speakers also emphasized that behavioral change is the main concern of prevention and research shows that pharmaceutical industry has put into place advanced behavioral change procedures that encourages physicians to move from ineffective drugs to quite effective ones and this should be accompanied by changing the behaviors of consumers (I.A.F, 2007).

The public health community should be quite passionate on health issues. They must be advocates of transformation through working with the entire public and solicit them to seek for change. Through their efforts of seeking for change they will be able to exert pressure on the government to change its policies and adopt holistic approach so as to deliver better health care services to communities across the globe.

Acute care is planned to offer management of acute episodes of injury and illness that is quite inadequate. Such care requires intensive monitoring, special care, medications as well as technological support so as to adequately deal with mental or physiological health situations. Therefore health care providers need to link with other settings so as to provide all-inclusive care services. Health care promotion for a child for instance may necessitate employing activities such as skin care, spiritual support, listening to music, pain control, enabling access to friends and family members among others.

 It is also indicated that to transform health care sector there is need for health providers to focus their strategies beyond treating injuries and diseases. Encouraging a health lifecycle is vital for development and this will be achieved if there is higher level of intervention by both health care providers and families. Nurses in particular are essential for offering health promotions to families since they center on holistic approach to health and they try to exploit the potential for higher level functioning. By the virtue of the fact that nurses work in environments where healthy promotion strategies may be easily employed they have an upper hand for instance in teaching parents on appropriate time for introducing solid foods to childrens, teach them on how they can make childrens develop learn social interaction skills as well as helping the adolescent to learn lifecycle behaviors which enhances physical and mental health (Elsevier, 2009).

The governments of various countries have key roles to play in health promotion. The dilemma facing health sector arises from poor leadership offered by governments in collaboration with the nature of public health that is diverse, large with no clear boundaries. A pathologist in Prussian by the names of Rudolf Virchow was exactly correct when he noted some a hundred years back that medicine is a social science has nothing to do with medicine on large scale but appropriate government policies. The implication of this is that there is need by government to adopt the notion of health in its entire policies.

By the virtue of the fact that the government has a greater role of protecting populations health there is need to collaborate with private sector, non governmental organization as well as entire society participation in making certain actions and decisions. Collective responsibility in decision making should not be deserted in favor of centering on peoples choice as well as consumer models of health prevention and promotion. What matters a lot is offering information to individuals as well as advising them on how to exercise informed choice (G.B.K.D, 2007).

Similarly programs developed by governments should adapt with changing times for instance the use of social security and Medicare programs by government is an outdated approach to current health care needs. What governments need to do is to look for strategies that brings together retirees and tax payers in one economic boat and encourage each person to find ways of tapping wisdom and energy as its done by United States zesty elders.

Likewise wider societal actions are vital in handling health determinants. The societal trends show that there are many problems facing social determinants of health for instance poor diet, excessive use of alcohol and cigarettes, psychological stress among others. The only way forward is moving to holistic approach that will help in imparting knowledge or education to the society as well as educating them on proper use of available resources this will help bring more changes in health care thus enabling consumers to be sure of receiving standard medication (G.B.K.D, 2007).

Research shows that for development of a broad based public health structure then a good starting point is by first adopting America institute of medicine definition of health care system which defines health care system as a compound network of organization and people who have the ability of playing significant roles in creating better conditions for health. It is therefore the holistic approach that will ensure that various stakeholders in the health industry work as a team thereby guarantying access to improved health care.

Similarly there is greater need for new paradigm in medical industry to help address the alarming rate of coronary diseases. The 1983 foresight seminar on heart diseases witnessed many speakers arguing in favor of shifting wellness programs. Their recommendations focused on a mixed approach comprising of allopathic and holistic approach to health care (Rigby, 1999). Another seminar held the same year on aging similarly highlighted the advantages of holistic approach against acute approach. One speaker in his speech pointed out the notion of standard aging individuals affected by diabetes saying  such diseases can be delayed until the last periods of life through controlling behavioral factors such as social relationship, smoking, diet among others because they help reduce death rates.

He further noted that using psychological model of health by aging population will reduce community illness by great proportions thereby the goals of holistic approach is necessary and policy makers need to understand that current elderly paradigm are in difficult healthy positions since very few can use their talent to generate income as many of them are disabled by elderly diseases (I.AF, 2007).

Conclusion
In conclusion, the current acute approach of tackling diseases is doomed to fail because it does not meet the needs of consumers. There is an urgent need for a new paradigm based on holistic approach of health. Similarly, there is greater need for all stakeholders to create favorable conditions for health which means they should focus on identifying assets instead of deficits. It should also be emphasized that the current information systems need to be replaced by computer based record system so as to improve quality of care since through integrated care delivery through multi professional electronic patient records in conjunction with offering quality assurance process.