Health Care Around The Globe

Cuba experiment with different ways on treating people to maximize the best results. Health is something we all should have and in Cuba they determine health or health illness by, “’The major determinants of health or

The topic chosen concerns the future prediction of global health standards. Due to the cases of growing health pandemics and the outbreaks that have affected many parts of the world; it is important to evaluate how the global health indicators will be like in 2020. The two articles chosen differ in scope but not in the anticipated results by 2020. The first article is general; about the world health situation by 2020. The second article is specific to the United States situation including medical insurance schemes such as Medicare and Medicaid that affect the standards of health in the United States of America. Significance of the two research studies to health care delivery in the United States

Globalization in healthcare is a topic that has been the subject of many debates worldwide. While practically the entire world is becoming a global village due to globalization, the healthcare industry was considered to be invulnerable to this trend. This was attributed to the fact that healthcare is a service industry, where service is delivered on area of purchase. However many developments not only in the healthcare industry but in the entire economical sphere as a whole have seen the aspects of globalization. As a result globalization in the healthcare industry is a common phenomenon in the contemporary world. As the healthcare industry across global boundaries becomes increasingly intertwined,

“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama, has been called the most important piece of health related legislation in U.S. history” (Tate 1). Introduced by the Obama administration, and signed into law March 23, 2010, “Obamacare,” now the common nickname dubbed by society, has promised to change the nation’s health care system entirely. While guaranteed to reduce health care costs, add more consumer benefits and protections, and to provide prevention and wellness programs, these benefits do not come without a dramatic impact to our society.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the principal government agency in the United States working to improve the health of all Americans despite their economic, social and educational status. HHS has identified three national goals of global health, including strengthen health care, advance scientific knowledge and innovation, and advance the health, safety and well-being of Americans (Secretary, 2014). The first goal to strengthen healthcare refers to HHS's push in making health insurance affordable for all Americans. This will increase access to preventative care as well as ensuring assess to high quality, culturally competent care. This goal focuses on improving transitions in care across the continuum, which in

This Paper approaches aspects of the US healthcare system in a comparative analysis with the French one. The comparison and contrast analysis touches base with the basic health outcomes and their statistics, including measures such as infant mortality, rates of chronic and infectious diseases, life expectancy, health insurance coverage, work force and obesity. Also, it discusses strengths and weaknesses of both systems concerning costs, quality and access, before its wrapped up with a comparison and contrast of both countries on their handling of healthcare coverage and insurance as well as the end of life options.

The United States (US) healthcare has seen tremendous shifts and turns in its existence. From the beginning, American healthcare’s focus is to provide quality and safe health care to the people. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law prompting another colossal change in healthcare in the US (Moses et al., 2013; Pipes, 2010; Rice et al., 2014). The policy soon took on the more commonly known name of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA brought forth the biggest growth in healthcare coverage in the US since 1965 and resulted in the reorganization of 20 % of the US economy (Pipes, 2010). The ACA’s primary goal is to expand the number of individuals covered by health insurance and decrease the general cost of health care in the country (Gonzales & Stuart, 2014; Moses et al., 2013; Rice et al., 2014). This paper will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the United States healthcare and compare it to the reformed Dutch healthcare system.

Addressing the cause of health care problems is one of the first steps in addressing the cost cutting issue. Much of what causes health care problems can be linked to dangerous lifestyle choices, dangerous living environments, and poverty. Countries with more successful universal health care systems, such as France, have laws restricting a person’s working hours while simultaneously providing a plethora of social services to ensure that their needs are always met, regardless of their income or social status. In turn, these exceptional social services drive down health care costs. France offers numerous programs to assist the poor, single working women with children, and families. The laws regarding health care oversight is also significantly less strict than that in the United States, yet they continue to be considered the best in the world in health care, while only spending 11.2% of their GDP (World Health Organization, 2012).

Globally, countries struggle with the challenge of providing adequate healthcare services to all their citizens. The United States spent approximately 17.6% of its GDP on healthcare in 2010, which could escalate to close to 19.6% in 2021 if cost containing measures are not put in place to control healthcare spending (The Commonwealth Fund, 2012). Even with this large amount of healthcare spending, the U.S. has almost 50 million residents without health insurance and 29 million who are underinsured (The Commonwealth Fund, 2012). Tanner (2008) estimates “total U.S. healthcare spending exceeds $1.8 trillion dollars, more than Americans spend on housing, food, national defense, or automobiles” (p.2).

Health care is a huge necessity no matter where in the world you are. However, health care in the U.S. seems to be lagging behind in many factors, like cost, quality and efficiency, compared to a few other countries like Great Britain, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland. After comparing International health care and American health care reform before and after the Affordable care act, it is clear that no health care system has displayed perfection, and each one has a negative and a positive factor.

In order to put the U.S.’s healthcare system in perspective regarding the actual quality of care currently used let’s take a look at two other developed countries, Japan and Canada and compare.

I think lack of cultural sensitivity from providers as an obstacle to seeking care some refugees also have expectations about health care providers that

The topic I will present is on Cuba’s efficient health care system. A number of sources – The World Health Organization, Huffington Post, and CNN – have recently claimed that, contrary to popular belief, Cuba’s health care system and doctors are among the greatest in the world. Although, it is known that Cuban doctors have incredibly limited resources, they are still able to care for the majority of the population of Cuba. Cuba uses a preventative method, where they work towards preventing the outbreak of a disease rather than treating their patients once they do contract the virus. The Cuban health care system is also explained to be an example for what the perfect health care model should be like in all developing country.

Recently on a trip to Cuba I gained a valuable learning experience about their culture and lifestyle. The citizens of Cuba receive free education and healthcare. However, their field of study is decided for them, as well as, their medical choices. It is believed that the physicians carry the primary responsibility for the community. They are called

The government has looked at the individual needs of its citizens and has provided free healthcare for everyone. Not only free healthcare but anything that would affect the factors of health, such as mental health and education. Research (ndjff) shows that before the new healthcare policies took place, Cuba spent 112 US dollars on per person in terms of healthcare services and now recently in 2014, statistics show that 817 US dollars are being used per person. Cuba’s healthcare is very accessible to all of the citizens.