Access To Health Care

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Access to Health Care Around the Globe In the beginning of this chapter, the unmet health care needs and the reasons for people not having met health care needs are discussed. The main issue as to why people are not receiving the health care they need is because they do not have health insurance: In the United States many people who do not have health care do not have it because their jobs do not offer employer-sponsored insurance. Unlike America, Canada is having issues with the extremely long waiting times to receive care, as Canadians could wait up to 18 weeks before meeting with a specialist. Two more countries discussed in this chapter are China and India, and there issues with health care are also different from each other. The …show more content…

It focuses on the countries around the world that are doing well with managing the disease, or countries that are doing extremely poor and have no control over the situation. When the chapter discusses HIV/AIDS, the locations mentioned are Africa, the Asia-Pacific Region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Middle East and North Africa. The countries that are still facing major issues with controlling this disease are Africa, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This disease is so severe in Africa that over 14 million children lose both or one of their parents. Although the infection in children have went down significantly, “over 22.5 million people are living in Africa with AIDS/HIV.” Moving into the Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the main issue that is causing HIV to spread is the amount of drug use and injections. This also causes a main concern in prisons because not only is HIV spreading, but multidrug resistant tuberculosis is as well. Finally, there is a major HIV issue in the Caribbean, causing it to have the 2nd highest infection rate in the world. This huge population of people carrying HIV has caused many countries to criminalize sex work and sex between …show more content…

According to a statistic from the text, “In 2008, malaria killed 863,000 people.” A huge portion of those that died were children due to their undeveloped immune systems, and according to WHO “the diseases kills 3,000 children a day.” Some of the main challenges when fighting malaria relate to the cost of new drugs and items made to try and reduce the spreading: This is a problem when looking at any disease that is causing issues for the

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