Antoine Tesniere is director of PariSanté Campus and professor of anesthesia and intensive care.
Health is at the heart of the concerns of the French, but only 11% of our fellow citizens imagine that the year 2024 will be better than 2023. Faced with the challenges of our health care system, this pessimism must challenge us collectively because our health system is indeed at a crossroads.
Faced with crises, sometimes accused of being on the verge of breakdown, he is also at the beginning of a new era.
Health is transforming every day, thanks to new scientific discoveries, new organizational or technological approaches, the fruit of scientific progress which has notably enabled us to combat the Covid pandemic in a time never equaled in the history of health. humanity.
Our challenge now is to translate this progress into reality for patients on a daily basis.
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Indeed, if improving care is a major objective for our health system, it must also make a profound transition towards a resolutely more preventive model.
We must give ourselves the means to lead this revolution so that prevention becomes the cornerstone of our approach to health.
And for good reason, science shows that a large majority of pathologies are subject to increasingly controllable factors: the environment, diet, exercise... Today, while France is one of the good students in the fight against cancer, we note each year that 140,000 patients suffer from cancer which could have been “avoidable”, because their pathology is the result of behaviors harmful to health.
Likewise, the saturation of our healthcare capacities is also the result of a lack of anticipation to limit the appearance of new pathologies.
Building the contemporary model of prevention therefore requires mobilizing all levers.
If our health model has made France famous, it is up to us to determine the necessary developments to keep it permanently ahead of its time.
To do this, we can count on the professionals and structures that make our system excellent.
The success of health prevention will only be complete if it keeps the promise of equality at the heart of our social model.
The rapid increase in the workload of health homes, desired by the President of the Republic, and whose usefulness no longer needs to be demonstrated, embodies on the ground, the spirit of collaboration between professionals that we must encourage to support the transition to prevention.
We therefore have a duty to be ambitious and imagine organizational innovations that will enable prevention on a large scale.
Beyond conceptual advances, it is technological progress that will allow us to go further, while preserving time and human relationships.
Tomorrow, digital and technological solutions will be tools that will shape our system.
Home monitoring through connected tools, education and information, digital therapies, remote post-operative monitoring… the preventive transition will bring concrete benefits for each citizen, both in terms of efficiency and comfort.
The programs committed to health innovation, in a sustainable and planned strategic vision, such as the France 2030 Plan, will be decisive in this transition.
Faced with these challenges and everyone's expectations, we have an obligation to succeed.
And the success of health prevention will only be complete if it keeps the promise of equality at the heart of our social model.
Prevention requires including all stakeholders and citizens, making everyone responsible, and taking massive action in favor of health education from an early age.
It must also make it possible to better combat inequalities in access to care, by prioritizing our attention very early on towards the most disadvantaged populations, or those furthest from new health tools.
Finally, it requires creating the conditions for trust with progress, so that everyone feels invested, supported and empowered to preserve their health.