Better Health for Everyone Health Care in Two Worlds Kenneth J Pakenham

 Author: Dr. Keneth J Pakenham is an A.P. in the department of English at the University of Akron, Ohio, USA. His specialization in his doctorate includes: Theory and Practice of Teaching/ Learning ESL (English as a Second Language), ESL Reading and Text book Writing, First and Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics. His interest is diverse and varied.

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Summary:  According to the author for the development of any society improvement in the population health is of great importance. It is helpful for both developed as well as developing countries. But for the developing countries it has great role. As in the developing countries the healthcare systems remain underdeveloped and inadequate primarily because of insufficient public health programmers. The essay “Better Health for Everyone: Health Care in Two Worlds’ has been drawn from an anthology titled “Making Connections”. This essay offers a critical and systematic review of the healthcare system in developed and developing countries.

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Text Questions:

Q1. What are the similarities and difference in the healthcare system of developed and developing nations?

Ans: The differences that are in the healthcare systems of developed and developing nations are on the basis of the priorities. The developed nations are more concerned about illness while as developing nations the population is concerned. Improving population health is of significant important to the development of any society. The developed and developing countries health has become very expensive due to excess care. The very less percentage of population can afford it. The differences that are in the Health Care system of two worlds include cost and priorities. The developed countries are concerned about fatal illness like heart disease and cancer. The developing countries are not still able to control the today life illness.

The population is concerned about diseases that are created due to poor health care system and impure water. The developing countries are still suffering from proper sanitation while the developed countries have eradicated it. The health care system has become very expensive and developing countries can’t afford it, while developed countries can afford it with very ease. This is based on economy of any country. e.g., the economic condition of developing nation forces them to lack behind the developed nation.

The similarities between the two nations with regard the health care system are enough. The challenges and possible solutions are same in both developed as well as developing countries. In both nations people are demanding better healthcare for them and their families. In both developing and developed countries, the government is facing same problems. The three areas, they have common include the deal with HIV, CVD and focus on crisis care.

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Q2. Describe the problem faced by the healthcare systems of wealthy countries?

Ans: The problem faced by the healthcare system of wealthy nations is financial problem. The cost of medicines is already high and it is rising. This increase is rapidly rising day by day, e.g., the expenditure on health care increased by 11% in U.S from 2000 – 2001. The need of the hour in developed nations is to reduce the rising cost on healthcare. Some developed nation like Britain has to invest additional money in country’s healthcare system, resulting nations have to reduce services including less number of beds, less high tools equipment’s and other necessary equipment’s in response to rising health care cost. The cost of insurance in most of countries has increased. Some countries have to reduce health care coverage for their employers, while other has eliminated it completely. As result of this 43 million people were without health insurance in America by the year 2002.  Also their system has minimized the access of poor people to health care because of high and rising cost. Along with this, the increase in life expecting and demand of best  healthcare have also increased cost of healthcare’s.

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Q3. Define crisis care. Describe its consequences in developed and developing countries. How can the emphasis on crisis care be reduced?  

Ans: Crisis care is the treatment of disease after it become serious. It is very expensive and often less effective than the treatment at early stage. The expenditure of crisis care is too high as compared to early diagnosis and every care. Due to drive up healthcare costs people live longer and result in much expenditure on them. With the advent of modern science, people are demanding better health care for their families, which results people have to pay taxes and insurance to complete with the problem.

The consequences of crises care in both developed and developing nations is same. The healthcare systems of two nations have a third area of common concern. They have less money to spend for health care; developing countries have got the western tendency to give priority of treating disease after it has developed. Crisis care creates problem for the developed nations, because it is incapable of meeting different health care priorities of developing nation. About 20% were children have died in developing nations than developed nations.

The emphasis on crisis care can be reduced if the priority should be given to primary health care. There must be clean water, adequate sanitation and time to time vaccination programs. There must be proper training how to deal with disease and how to prevent from disease. The solution of crisis care is effective health education which informs people about ways to avoid diseases and importance of nutrition can reduce the emphasis on crisis care.

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Q4. According to experts, how can the most urgent health problems of developing countries be addressed?

Ans: To solve the most urgent health problems of developing countries, experts have recommended that priority should be given to primary health care. This approach of health care must give emphasis on health maintenance through disease prevention and control. Most of the developing nations are facing deadest diseases that can be prevented if clean water and proper sanitation are provided. Some diseases can be prevented by proper vaccination. Other diseases can be prevented by giving proper awareness regarding diseases. The timely diagnosis and basic treatment should be for all general public without any difference among poor and rich.