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Embracing Frontline Primary Health Care for Health Insurers and Medicare

Presenting the case for health insurers and Medicare to embrace the concept of frontline primary health care, addressing the current problems in poor health, lack of responsibilities, medical fails, costs of surgery, lack of transparency, and more. Providing a solution through a holistic approach to health, fitness, and wellbeing assessments, communication, and prevention.

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Embracing Frontline Primary Health Care for Health Insurers and Medicare

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  1. Presenting the case for health insurers and Medicare to to embrace the concept of Frontline Primary Health Care

  2. THE PROBLEM • People in poor health - metabolic health - musculo-skeletal health - mental health 2. Inability of private health funds to rate premiums against risk. 3. Lack of contractual obligation on the part of health fund members to keep themselves fit and healthy to the best of their ability. 4. A matter of all rights and no responsibilities for fund members.

  3. THE PROBLEM 5. Children leaving school in poor physical and mental condition 6. The rise and rise of personally-generated body system dysfunctions. (Being personally-generated there’s a good chance they can be personally un-generated.) 7. Inability of health insurers and the medical industry to make the distinction between a fitness problem and a medical problem. 8. Lack of body system checklists for members and their physicians to complete on a regular basis. 9. Epic medical fails Doctors practicing symptom-masking medicine – where poor health is not restored to good, where poor health continues to get worse.

  4. THE PROBLEM • EPIC MEDICAL FAILS Blood pressure Piles Headaches Back pain Sleep apnoea Candida Reflux Obesity Gout Depression Insomnia Angina

  5. THE PROBLEM THE CURRENT ‘MAINSTREAM’ ILLHEALTH CYCLE

  6. THE PROBLEM 10. Rapacious costs of surgery • 11. Lack of transparency in accounts generated by members • Members are not presented with an account outlining what • their operation cost and who paid the bill. • Lack of insurance brokerage in getting the cheapest rates for • operations – for both members and health insurers. • Lack of regular health, fitness and wellbeing assessments • and making them an integral part of the insurance fund • membership

  7. THE PROBLEM 14. Lack of regular communication with members and the provision of information, assistance and encouragement to keep fit and healthy. • Lack of engagement of the fitness, diet and counselling industries • under the primary health care umbrella.

  8. THE PROBLEM THE HIDING TO NOTHING The growth of symptom masking, pharmaceutical medicine Universal decline In health, fitness and wellbeing Rubbing and crunching to fix back pain The rise and rise of surgery, devices and hospital costs

  9. THE SOLUTION A WORD FROM LAO TZU A big problem could have been solved easily when was a small problem. Neither individuals nor health insurers can afford to let small problems become big problems. People need extra guidance than that which they are likely to get from their doctor. When it comes to fixing small problems, and restoring poor health to good, health insurers have to second-guess doctors.

  10. THE SOLUTION

  11. THE SOLUTION THE TEN PILLARS OF FRONTLINE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

  12. THE SOLUTION THE VANGUARD OF FRONTLINE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE Expanding the primary health care model so the process shifts from reactionary medical intervention to pro-active fitness, diet, counselling - and pro-active medicine.

  13. THE SOLUTION Using the Frontline primary health care matrix to encourage connection and referral between health practitioners.

  14. THE SOLUTION • Health Climate Survey - 15 minutes • Complete Health, Fitness and Wellbeing - 60 minutes • Health and Fitness checkup- 30 minutes • Metabolic Health - 20 minutes • Fitness - 30 minutes • Universal Fitness Test - 30 minutes • 20 Metre Run - 20 minutes • Musculo-skeletal Risk Screen - 20 minutes • Clinical Diagnostic Assessment – joint and muscle pain • Diet - 20 minutes • Stress Risk - 20 minutes • Career satisfaction - 20 minutes

  15. THE SOLUTION HEALTH, FITNESS AND WELLBEING PRESCRIPTIONS

  16. THE SOLUTION

  17. THE SOLUTION Establishing a health, fitness and wellbeing technology platform That can be used by individuals and health, fitness and wellbeing practitioners.

  18. THE SOLUTION

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  22. THE SOLUTION • blood pressure • blood glucose • blood chemistry in all its wide diversity • weight • percent body fat • aerobic fitness • strength • flexibility • joint condition • prostate/pap smear • colonoscopy • breast screen • fecal occult blood • skin screen • heath climate survey • stress • sleep • career satisfaction • ... THE ILLHEALTH PREVENTION CHECKLIST

  23. THE SOLUTION

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  25. THE NEXT STEP A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Commercial in confidence Miller Health Pty Ltd

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