Emerging Trends In Health Care

Social change is the modification in the social order of a society and societal trends are having an increasing impact on the profession of health education and promotion (Cottrell, Girvan, McKenzie, & Seabert, 2015). In the promotion of social change, two areas that I believe are the most important emerging trends include technology and the medical care establishment. The world has experienced an explosion in the growth and advancement of technology in the last decade, as such, there has been an exponential growth and development across almost all fields globally, health education and promotion inclusive. In community needs assessment, in communication, in the dissemination of information across populations, in monitoring and evaluation strategies, in data collection and analysis, to mention a few, improved technology has introduced a tremendous advancement in health education and promotion.

Furthermore, in the medical care establishment, population health and preventive medicine have gained wider acceptance and this will only improve over time. In the United States, passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was an attempt to take charge of the healthcare system (Cottrell, Girvan, McKenzie & Seabert, 2015), which is currently focused on secondary and tertiary care (Benjamin, 2011). The health care system is however,

In addition, not keeping silent, but rather, being a strong voice in outlining and campaigning for wider spread preventive health policies and measures in local, state, national, and international levels, further emphasizing the benefits to be obtained from increased focus to preventive