reform our health care system...

I am extremely glad and enjoy taking this class because I learned so much more about the importance of public health. I am graduating with MPH degree next month and I had no idea how horrible our health care system was till I stepped in this class. It was a wonderful wrap up of my two years of MPH program.

I found the importance of health care reform and I wish I could pursue in the reformation as I seek for my career. I think health care reform should start from education. Education as in term of school material and public education as common sense in the community. The best way to make our health care system better is to have a well-planned prevention system. For example, in the past years we had worked very hard on preventing lung cancer by giving various type of anti-smoking education in school and in community. The smoking rate and lung cancer incident rate have dropped down gradually as years go by. Therefore in order to decrease the cancer, heart attack, car accident rate, education from early age will be needed. After education is implemented in our community, then we will need policy to enforce it. As a chain reaction, our health care system would improve when we don't need to spend so much money on saving the last three month of patients' lives. Prevention is much more efficient than recovery.

I can't wait to be part of health care system to act as health educator!