The strive for an integrated and contextual approach in healthcare is essential.
Desiree Hooi is driven by the passion for pursuing the possibilities, so everyone can enjoy good health and care. To achieve the aforementioned, factors related to behaviour, culture, beliefs, and social environment play an important role in her approach. Every single factor must be understood and taken into account when designing or implementing healthcare programs and services. These factors also play a role and influence the ways of communication. By understanding how people communicate, and how information is perceived, strategies can be adapted to convey information so the population remains well-informed. Developed countries with a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds face a major challenge in gathering and including groups with varied socio-cultural backgrounds, to participate in local healthcare systems and programs. Data shows that it is precisely these groups that show higher incidence, prevalence and mortality rates as a result of certain diseases. Hence, health care systems must be designed according to the social and cultural standards of each population; communicated in a way that information reaches the population; and regularly evaluated and tested so that these people are not left behind, because the enjoyment of good health is a fundamental human right.  
To achieve maximum efficiency, approaches and services in healthcare should be explicitly adapted to the aspects mentioned before. This is possible by means of an integrated and contextual approach, working in close collaboration with a great variety of professionals.