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Bioenergetic Functional Medicine Model
Nutritionists, and Health Coaches
When people discuss healthcare quality, what they are really talking about is the degree to which health services optimize the management of the various chronic diseases in the individual and population. The American Academy of Family Physicians categorizes healthcare quality metrics into a few categories, such as structure, process, and outcome. Structure and process measures have to do with operational infrastructure and procedures behind how we perform disease management
Patients who do not have experience with the healthcare system are often surprised by the lack of or superficial nature of this discussion. Many patients assume that a healthcare provider is holistically trained in the cause, prevention, and treatment of chronic disease, but the truth of the matter is that we are not.
The first solution is that we accept our current roles as disease managers and commit to partnering with those who are better trained in health promotion. A simple step in the right direction for a primary care clinic might be to increase the frequency of referrals to nutritionists, personal trainers, health coaches, etc. While this may seem like a simple intervention, if one considers the amount of people with subclinical metabolic dysfunction, at scale, this practice would be quite substantive.