Wellness is Personal: Own It

 

Healthcare Network Infrastructure: Wellness Gets Personal

The United States population is aging, with some retiring, and is opting into new areas for comprehensive healthcare coverage. Over 1B individuals in the U.S. receive Medicare benefits today (Oster & Patterson, 2022). States are tasked with supporting citizens by providing continuity in healthcare coverage described as comprehensive access to total well-being healthcare solutions in all geographical areas (Oster & Patterson, 2022).

When evaluating provider networks for managed care insurance to support retirement, disability, or other medical causation, individuals could likely look into Federally supported programs aligned with States, as overseen by CMS and well-versed human capital. While individual States strive to meet citizens needs by developing sensible and evidence-based partnerships with managed care providers (MCOs).

Human capital and health are two variables that go hand in hand. If one does not feel healthy, say if affected by Covid or other environmental stressors, it influences productivity. It is known being unhealthy depresses the ability to work productively and, or the ability and incentives to invest in one’s own human capital. Logically considered should be DPT outliers, as influencers of proximity, that impact one’s ability toward self-sustainment and upward health mobility. Taken together, these mechanisms bracket individuals to imply worse health outcomes out of Machiavellian tendencies.

Health as Human Capital: Health Gets Personal

If one is healthy, they can support their infrastructure toward self-improvement, offspring, or with contributions to network colleagues. Being unhealthy depresses the ability to work productively and, or the ability and incentives to invest in human capital. Taken together, these mechanisms ontologically diminish health as antecedents to lower income. Dark personality traits, of nearest proximity rule, work to bracket individuals and abilities toward improving health networks. Making smart choices is personal and warrants continued focus. Being on your game affects your total wellness and ability to add measurable value to others.

When evaluating your ability to attain continues wellness, the following should be on your radar screen:

How do you measure managed care healthcare provider contributions to efficacy?

In terms of adoption curves of agencies and providers, it is a research need that is identified to address

measurement of the following medical coverage variables:

IV – Describe, as a beneficiary or as a Federal, State health authority, your understanding of a managed care provider’s access to quality of designated or specialty healthcare services (such as behavioral health and long-term support services).

IV2-Describe, as a beneficiary or as a Federal, State health authority, the healthcare experience exchange with healthcare network providers.

In addition to the above variables, and in reflection of healthcare insurance revised needs today for some amidst Covid and financial concerns, additional variables are identified:

IV3-Describe, as a beneficiary or as a Federal, State health authority, your understanding of health efficacy from alignment with Network providers supported by the healthcare provider.

IV4-Describe, as a beneficiary or as a Federal, State health authority, leadership member exchanges (LDX) as affording cultural competency.

IV5-Describe, as a beneficiary as a Federal, State health authority, support for ageism and total wellness of select provider demographics.

Holy Grail of Healthcare Service Adoption

As people continue their existence as federal healthcare recipients, amidst a psycho social and economic climate, a level of support and trust exists between citizens and their government’s ability to meet their needs with appropriate human capital. Accordingly, it is anticipated CMS chooses companies demonstrating abilities of human capital qualities, to support state and Nation citizens and their total wellness needs.

As we move forward in year 3 of Covid, we see case studies on Networks describing individual experiences with Federally-based healthcare. While Covid has been inductively predicted to hang around in one shape or another, the U.S. healthcare market sector is responding comprehensively to its wake. The health market sector is responding with services that proactively respond to citizens’ & constituent needs, including academia, to achieve and maintain total wellness and supports for our future with academic pipeline (Canady, 2021; Liu & Pinder, 2022; Poon & Jha, 2006; Nadeck & Pearson, 2008).

References

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Liu, C. H., Pinder-Amaker, S., Hahm, H. C., & Chen, J. A. (2022). Priorities for addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college student mental health. Journal of American College Health, 70(5), 1356-1358.

Naydeck, B. L., Pearson, J. A., Ozminkowski, R. J., Day, B. T., & Goetzel, R. Z. (2008). The impact of the highmark employee wellness programs on 4-year healthcare costs. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 146-156.

Oster, N. V., Patterson, D. G., Skillman, S. M., & Frogner, B. K. (2022). COVID-19 and the Rural Health Workforce: The Impact of Federal Pandemic Funding to Address Workforce Needs.

Poon, E. G., Jha, A. K., Christino, M., Honour, M. M., Fernandopulle, R., Middleton, B., ... & Kaushal, R. (2006). Assessing the level of healthcare information technology adoption in the United States: a snapshot. BMC medical informatics and decision making, 6(1), 1-9.