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Journal of Public Health Policy and Planning | Volume: 2
August 27-28, 2018 | London, UK
International Conference on
Healthcare and Health Management
Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
Joint Event
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Very often, we confuse emergency care with healthcare.
Healthcare simply means taking care of our health and
healthcare management means managing our health with
responsible decisions via lifestyle changes that promote good
health and a reduced risk of lifestyle diseases. However, in
modern terminology, the termhealth care is often confused with
doctors and hospitals who are trained to save our lives when
we reach a situation of a health emergency like an accident, an
unexpected incident like a heart attack, sudden onslaught of
genetic cancers, autoimmune diseases or any infectious diseases.
Most of our healthcare emergencies related to lifestyle diseases
canbe avoided via a healthcaremanagement systemthat focuses
on preventive healthcare, and reduces the burden on the patient
and thedoctor. Hence, weneed to stepback andunderstandhow
we can institute a system to push patients to become responsible
for their own bodies and minds and depend less and less on
invasive medicine, thus reducing the pressure of hospitalisation
and the load on insurance companies for claims relating to
lifestyle issues that can be avoided in the first place. Which are
the diseases that we can manage and reduce the burden of via
educating patients? Listed below are some with research data:
Type 2 Diabetes: As per 2013, 3.2 million in the UK were
diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, 65 million in India, 110 million
in China and 84 million in USA. However, as per a 2017 research
by Yale University a low calorie diet can rapidly reverse type
2 diabetes in animal models. And a University of New Castle
2016 research showed that people who reversed their type 2
diabetes,managed tokeep it reversed for 10 years after reversal.
This reduces burden on diabatologists, hospitals and doctors
not just for diabetes management, but protects patients against
complications like glaucoma, gangrene and kidney failure.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD): CVD Is the number 1 cause of
deaths globally as perWHOdata. In theUK alone, over 1.6million
men and over 1 million women are living with CHD. Overall
CVD is estimated tocost the UK economy 19 billion - 46% direct
healthcare costs, 34% productivity losses and 20% to informal
care of peoplewith CVD. However, as per a study published in Los
Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center (LA BioMed) in 2016, even small changes like eating aged
garlic can decrease the risk of CVD by reducing the accumulation
of certain types of plaque in the arteries. Dr Dean Ornish has
built an entire practice covered by the biggest health insurance
companies to prove that we do not need medical intervention
to reverse heart disease, only lifestyle changes. For both the
above, I will be discussing solutions to educate management of
patients diagnosed with the above diseases so that emergencies
and medical overload for both diseases is reduces, as is the
financial burden on the countries funding these healthcare costs.
Speaker Biography
Rachna Chhachhi is a certified Nutritional Therapist, Holistic Cancer Coach and WHO
Certified in Malnutrition for Infants & Children. She herself suffered from rheumatoid
arthritis, an incurable autoimmune condition, which left her bed ridden 12 years
ago with deformities, when she was heading business development for a Fortune 50
multinational company. She took a break from her corporate career to heal herself, and
then got certified to begin her life to help people. She practices across 21 countries
to help prevent, manage and reverse lifestyle diseases, cancer and autoimmune
conditions. She uses balanced nutrition, oxygenation, functional training, yoga and
meditation as her mainline treatment with success in clinically reversing conditions.
She has a health column with BusinessWorld magazine and is the author of the book
RESTORE and is working on a book on Cancer this year with a well known publishing
house. She has conducted over 500 health awareness workshops and sessions for
organisations like Google, GE, Marico, Nomura, Accenture, Honeywell, Dunnhumby,
Aon Hewitt, Aon Consulting, Cargill etc and for groups for doctors, communities
for a cause and cancer associations.She has been writing on health and wellness
for 20 years. She has had health columns with Business Today, Outlook Business
Magazine and TOI blogs. She has earlier worked with GE Consumer Finance, India
Today, Business Today and PPC Worldwide, a United Healthcare group company.
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Rachna Chhachhi
Oxford College, UK
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