ACTIVATE: How to Save your Life in a Complex Health Care System

By Claire Snyman

ACTIVATE - How to Save your Life in a Complex Health Care System opens up the conversation on the challenges faced within health care systems and how patients need to be more proactive participants in their health care management. Unfortunately, the reality is that our sickest patients are frequently harmed inside our health care systems. Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US and many other countries around the world, including Canada. This is not a problem that exists within only one country; nor is it unique to developed or developing nations. It is a global challenge. Delivering optimal health care at a cost-effective price without doing harm is a daunting task for any country, government or organization. This is not only because of the complexity of health care systems and the human bodies they interact with, but also because we are dealing with human lives.Claire Snyman speaks from her own personal experience as a brain tumor survivor having navigated the complex waters of the health care system. ACTIVATE looks at how health care systems can be complex and overburdened and how simple actions by patients and care partners, can literally save a life. ACTIVATE is a quick reference guide for both patients, care partners and health care professionals looking for guidance and solutions on how to put one's health in one's own hands and collaborate with health care teams. A quick and compelling read interlaced with personal story and ideas - worth reading and sharing - this message might save a life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980880379
• ISBN13: 9781980880370
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 41 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"