Rebecca Onie: What Americans agree on when it comes to health
Rebecca Onie: En lo que los estadounidenses concuerdan cuando se trata de salud
Rebecca Onie is the founder of Health Leads, a program that connects patients to basic care and resources, such as food and housing, that are the root cause of many health problems. Full bio
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by immigration, education, guns
la educación, las armas
es algo feo y ruidoso,
to drown out everything else.
con ahogar todo lo demás.
is a human right! Fight, fight, fight!
derecho humano! ¡Pelea, pelea, pelea!
Obamacare has got to go!
El Obamacare tiene que acabar!
underneath all the noise,
tras todo el ruido,
más estamos de acuerdo?
the right questions,
las preguntas correctas,
but on something more important:
sino en algo más importante:
with one question:
obsesionada con una pregunta:
in order to be healthy?
para estar sanos?
at a chaotic hospital in Boston,
en un hospital caótico en Boston,
your patients most need to be healthy?"
sus pacientes para estar saludables?".
again and again,
historia una y otra vez,
of variations of since.
variaciones desde entonces.
with an asthma exacerbation,
a una paciente con asma exacerbado,
in a mold-infested apartment.
en un apartamento infestado de moho.
and I prescribe antibiotics,
y prescribo antibióticos,
because there's nothing I can do."
porque no hay nada que pueda hacer".
be so complicated
diseñar una consulta médica
what people actually need to be healthy.
necesitan para estar saludables.
of physicians and other caregivers
a miles de médicos y otros cuidadores
their medication --
sus medicamentos...
patients to those resources
pacientes a esos recursos.
navigating patients to essential resources
Mass General Hospital encontró
a recursos esenciales
in blood pressure and cholesterol levels
arterial y los niveles de colesterol.
de un nuevo fármaco,
¿qué ha cambiado?
that just 20 percent of health outcomes
el 20 % de los resultados en salud
are tied to healthy behaviors
vinculados a comportamientos saludables
determinants of health --
determinantes sociales de la salud...
for that vast majority of time
en esa gran mayoría de las veces
consultorio del médico
now routinely remind us
nos recuerda rutinariamente
than our genetic code.
que nuestro código genético.
even recently had the audacity
recientemente tuvo la audacia
determinants of health
sociales de la salud.
para desentenderse".
health care providers and insurers
de servicios de salud y aseguradoras
de USD 600 millones
infant mortality
la mortalidad infantil
health care system
de USD 3,5 billones
para crear salud?
at a hospital in Baltimore,
acudió a un hospital en Baltimore
figuring out which metabolic panels
para determinar qué exámenes metabólicos
had been kicked out of his housing
expulsado de su vivienda
that somebody finally asked me."
alguien finalmente me pregunte".
a health care system
hemos creado un sistema de salud.
un paciente "¿Tiene hambre?"
of what counts as health care
que cuenta como atención médica
to ask altogether;
olvidamos de preguntarlo por completo;
"no third sandwich policy,"
"política de no tres sándwiches",
a hungry patient in the ER,
hambriento en emergencias,
como el médico ordene;
on the medical costs of malnutrition
en gastos médicos por desnutrición.
a alimentos saludables;
and Medicaid Services program
de Servicios de Medicare y Medicaid
and some get information about food,
y otros información sobre alimentos,
nada por pacientes hambrientos
doing nothing for hungry patients
in this country.
y habitual en este país.
for housing, electricity ...
la vivienda, la electricidad...
health care may be changing,
médica puede estar cambiando,
and certainly not fast enough.
no lo suficientemente rápido.
of our doctors, of our patients,
a nuestros médicos, a nuestros pacientes
sobre la atención en salud,
los votantes sobre la salud?
the answer to that question,
la respuesta a esa pregunta,
preguntar a los votantes de todo el país:
to ask voters across the country:
was that no one has any clue
fue que nadie tiene ni idea
sobre atención en salud.
the social determinants of health
los determinantes sociales de salud
came up with that language?"
se le ocurrió ese lenguaje?"
all the ridiculousness
and one of white Republican women.
y uno de mujeres republicanas blancas.
"If you had a hundred dollars,
"Si tuvieras USD 100,
to buy health in your community?
salud para tu comunidad?
nearly to the last percentage point.
casi hasta el último punto porcentual.
only sort of impacts health.
atención en salud solo afecta la salud.
the majority of their dollars
la mayor parte de sus dólares
on what creates health,
en lo que crea salud,
on access to healthy food.
acceso a alimentos saludables.
"This has got to be a fluke."
"Esto tiene que ser una casualidad".
swing voters in Seattle,
latinos masculinos indecisos en Seattle,
Democratic voters in Cleveland,
y afroamericanos en Cleveland,
in Hendersonville, North Carolina:
en Hendersonville, Carolina del Norte:
sorprendentemente similares,
to spend more money
and health centers.
on health care in this country,
la atención médica en este país,
struggling with is why.
because it is common sense.
porque es de sentido común.
we need to get healthy --
necesitamos para recuperar la salud
para estar saludables,
of common experience.
debido a la experiencia común.
with commercial health insurance --
con seguro de salud privado,
to find housing or transportation
por encontrar alojamiento o transporte
in our focus groups.
nuestros grupos focales.
what it meant to struggle,
lo que significaba luchar,
women in Charlotte was a waitress
en Charlotte era camarera
with an enormous Big Gulp soda.
con un enorme refresco Big Gulp.
a membership to the Y,
una membresía en la YMCA,
to the gym, she said,
no pudiera ir al gimnasio, dijo,
podía permitirse la gasolina
this familiar panic rise in me,
pánico familiar aumentaba en mí,
of his many depressions.
sus muchas depresiones.
that he wanted to kill himself.
me dijo que quería suicidarse.
maestra de escuela de mi madre.
we lived in the shadow
sabía que vivíamos a la sombra
to be honest with myself
ser honesta conmigo misma
needed health care to recover,
atención médica para recuperarse,
needed something else,
mi familia necesitaba algo más,
threaten to slip away.
amenaza con escabullirse.
the solutions were straightforward.
las soluciones fueron sencillas.
women in Charlotte said,
republicanas en Charlotte:
into health care,
en atención médica,
and distribute it differently."
de manera diferente".
the right language
el lenguaje correcto
notablemente claras.
despite all the noise,
a pesar de todo el ruido,
than any politician's bill,
el proyecto de ley de cualquier político,
de cualquier centro de pensamiento.
and our common experience.
y nuestra experiencia común.
a health care executive:
si eres un ejecutivo de salud:
of your patients run out of food
se quedan sin comida
at the end of the month?
la renta al final del mes?
su tarjeta de puntuación,
on the scorched earth of health care,
tierra quemada de la atención médica,
and Republican voters alike,
y republicanos por igual,
healthy food and safe housing
y una vivienda segura
for the citizens of this country:
para los ciudadanos de este país:
to what we know to be true,
lo que sabemos que es verdad,
in what it takes to be healthy?
sobre lo que se necesita para estar sano?
las preguntas que hacemos
to hear each other's answers.
las respuestas de los demás.
that we the patients,
que tenemos los pacientes,
nosotros los cuidadores,
and to act upon them.
y actuar sobre ellas.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rebecca Onie - Health services innovatorRebecca Onie is the founder of Health Leads, a program that connects patients to basic care and resources, such as food and housing, that are the root cause of many health problems.
Why you should listen
In 1996, as a sophomore in college, Rebecca Onie had a realization: The health care system in the United States was not set up to diagnose nor treat the socioeconomic issues that lead to poor health, and that health care providers are not given tools to address basic problems like nutrition and housing.
So, while still a sophomore, she co-founded Health Leads, a program that assists low-income patients and their families to access food, heat, and other basic resources they need to be healthy. With the additional insight that college volunteers could be recruited and trained into an elite group just like a college sport team, she found the people and skills needed to produce such an audacious idea. Since then it has grown tremendously, and now operates in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, New York, Providence, and Washington, DC, and in the last year assisted over 8,800 patients.
In 2009, Rebecca was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
Photo: Courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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