The wow factor as a determinant of funding for disorders of the skin

作     者：Terence J.Ryan 

作者机构：Green Templeton College Oxford UniversityOxford OX 26 HG UK 

出 版 物：《Journal of Medical Colleges of PLA(China)》 (中国人民解放军军医大学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第30卷第2期

页      面：61-68页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100206[医学-皮肤病与性病学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：EADV Education and Science divisions of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology IFD International Foundation for Dermatology United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO 

主　　题：Skin disorders Wound healing Skin care 

摘      要：As people live beyond 100 years, there is an extended period of impaired quality of life for the increasing numbers of individuals with skin disorders. There is also a growing work force of fit elderly individuals who are able to provide low technology skin care and who can teach self-help if well instructed. The International Society of Dermatology s sub-committee Skin Care for All: Community Dermatology seeks to bring together those who care for skin diseases and those who manage wounds, burns, lymphoedema and neglected tropical diseases affecting the skin for the purpose of skin care. Their focus is the repair of four functions: barrier, thermoregulation, sensory perception and communication. The curriculum includes low cost self-help and the restoration of absent skin. The care expectation is one of technical proficiency integrated with kindness and altruism. The concept is attracting wide attention but needs to develop compelling and persuasive arguments(wow factors) regarding why it should be funded. There is probably no greater wow factor than tracing the path of a severely injured patient from the battlefield through the course of immediate first aid by paramedics to the surgeon in the frontline tent who can almost guarantee survival. Seeing these disfigured persons winning trophies at the Olympic Games has garnered the admiration of millions of viewers.