THE COMPASS HEALTH CARE PLAN
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Compass Health Care Plan is a five-year template for implementing a Social Medicine health care plan designed to inspire cooperative and reciprocal sharing of information and financial resources with the Western Allopathic Health Care System. The Social Medicine health work paradigm is articulated in the language, principles and techniques of Systems Thinking. It is organized according to cycles of action learning and review correlated with the phases of process, impact and outcome evaluation to design emerging creative solutions. The Corelssues of problems in current health care services is described in addiction dynamics and win-lose transactions among four player-roles and corresponding communication interactions. The health worker and health team collaboration matrix is integrated into the concepts of "Communities of Practice" as a fundamental strategy for developing a stable, but interactive, innovative and practical to guide the Social Medicine health care plan.

In the content of the five main parts, the "health care provider delivery" model is reframed into a format that re-structures the social and economic power dynamics. Concrete ideas and examples from the literature illustrate empowering strategies for integrating individuals, families and communities in reclaiming the responsibility and resources for disease and health outcomes. The emphasis is upon empowering personal life-style choices and creating social support systems to invoke curative healing of social maladies and addiction in community-focused health team work. Innovative participatory management ideas for information-gathering and parameters outlined for health work action learning cycles and evaluation invites a values clarification of the current concerns and issues in the Allopathic disease-oriented system. By focusing not on the symptoms but on the roots of problems, people can transform deep conflicts into opportunities for participatory and systemic change. By envisioning a different future, they can change conflict from being a barrier

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