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The article focuses on efforts to curb skyrocketing healthcare costs. Therefore, there is a need for the health sector to work jointly with the business sector. The paper discusses improving business and health sector partnerships, trends underscoring the health sector, and examples of business-health sector partnerships.
Summary
The author highlights some main articles like employment, dynamic landscape, business sector collaborating with the Community’s Public health to improve business and health care partnerships. Other main ideas include the health sector working jointly with the business sector and improving working adults’ health by using workplaces. In the case of employment, the employees need cost-effectiveness and proper health reforms. The employees also require evidence on health promotion activities and accurate information to ensure appropriate decisions. Consequently, the environment management authority protects employees from health risks (USAGov n.d.). The employees, specifically those from private sectors, pay the health professionals on time to ensure they get health services. Health sector professionals, at times, work in a changing society. The social and political forces affect the changes in the business and health sector. Moreover, introducing public health schools is vital in addressing the rising need for healthcare, especially if people need services. Better health care services aids in safeguarding the health and avoid premature deaths to people (CDC | National Center for Environmental Health (n.d.). Furthermore, the health sector requires establishing community partnerships with the community to improve public health services. A combination of the expertise and knowledge in the business sector ensures attaining health reforms.
Additionally, to achieve improved health care and quality life, the business sector needs to work with the health sector. Therefore, the business and health sector need to work jointly to achieve proper health care for all. Workplaces are also the opportunity places to improve on health care. American workers mostly spend one-third of their day working (Majestic, 2009). At times, the rising cost of health care leads to bankruptcy to unhealthy workers who need help. Therefore, partnerships with employers will introduce better programs to address public health decline issues.
The Three Trends Underscoring Need for Business Sector to Partner with the Public Health
One of the trends to underscore public health needs to work with the business sector is public health becoming big business. Furthermore, public health programs lose the money meant for them. Additionally, there is a lack of enough workers despite the need for health professionals.
Business-Health Partnerships Established In the Last 15 Years
Examples of such partnerships include CDC’s collaboration with Cargill, American Cancer Society’s consulting program, and Jason Lang and colleagues. The partnerships ensure business and health sector partnership attains win-win situation. The partnerships also ensure transparency in the health and business sectors.
In conclusion, factors like employment, the business sector’s cooperation with the health sector, and community collaboration with public care facilitate proper health care reforms. Curbing the skyrocketing health care costs ensures that all attain health services. Therefore, the improvements enhance health promotion for all people.
References
CDC | National Center for Environmental Health. (n.d.)Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/
Majestic, E. (2009). Public health’s inconvenient truth: the need to create partnerships with the business sector. Preventing chronic disease, 6(2).
USAGov. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/environmental-protection-agency