Health geography can offer a spatial understanding of a population’s health, the distribution of disease in an area, and the environment’s result on health and disease. Health geography also deals with accessibility to health care and health care providers. This is also considered a sub discipline of humane geography; nevertheless, it requires a perceptive of the other fields such as epidemiology, climatology. Although health care is a great public superior, it is not pure. However, it is not equally available to all individual. The health care is demanding public services that are continuously distributed throughout the world. The health care service is only available in certain areas. Therefore, only the the more financial and functional will be able to access it. Financial status depends on prices of a particular health care. Functional reflects the quantity and structure of the health care provided services. According to Environment Network News (ENN), a change in climate possibly will help women, in the United Nations. According to the United Nations woman, tolerate the brunt of drought, rising seas, melting glaciers and other effects of climates change but are mostly ignored in the debate over how to close down it, the United nations debate over how to halt it, The United Nation Population Fund said today, in the state of the world population report in 2009, the organization stated the world’s poor are the most at risk to climate change and the bulk of the one point five billion people on one dollar a day or less are women (ENN). Therefore, women who are poor and live in poor countries are among the hardest subjected to climate change. However, they contributed the least to it, said UNFPA executive director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid. The world leaders are due to meet at a United Nation, global warming summit in Copenhagen in December. The United Nation agency urged them, to consider the women that would be harmed by climate change and how their voice can make a big different. According to the world fact book, the population is 6,790,062,216 as of July 2009.
Despite the established health care facilities in the United States, most citizens do not have access to proper medical care. We must appreciate from the very onset that a healthy and strong nation must have a proper health care system. Such a health system should be available and affordable to all. The cost of health services is high. In fact, the ...
A health care system that provides free health care services to its entire citizen can be termed as universal health care. This is a situation where all citizens are protected from financial costs in health care. It is recognized around the globe as it provides a specific package of benefits to all citizens in the entire nation. For instance, free health care can result to improved health outcomes. In addition, it provides financial risk protection and an improved access to health services. There is an increasing debate on how citizen should be provided with free medical services. Although United State does not permit free health care services it should have free health care for all citizens. This is due to the fact that healthcare is the largest industry in United State. Due to the fact that United State is a rich country, it should have a healthcare system that provides free services such as treatment for its entire citizen. This will play a significant role, as it will stop medical bankruptcies in...
The structure of my paper is the following. First I identify the trend of heath care costs over time, compared to other countries. Then I present an investigation of possible heath care cost ...
The causes of climate change are also known to them that though it is not only the human action playing role but it is the main cause of climate change. The effects of climate change does include harm and loss of environment and organisms but it also has impact on the human health. Semenza (2014) displays an assessment report which states that throughout the 21st century, the rapidly occurring climate change will lead to increase in number of humans with ill health in many regions mainly in those of developing countries where citizens face low income. Semenza (2014) also mentions how there are physiological limits to intense heat exposure and the global climate change will turn some parts of the world which are currently highly populated into uninhabitable even if the global temperature rises by 7 degrees Celsius. Johnson (2014) states how El-Niño-related hydroclimate variability will lead to being intensified under global warming mainly in areas as southern Asia which are already stressed by different droughts, floods, and crop yields. Dettinger, Udall, and Georgakakos (2015) mentions how climate change puts risk and threat on water resources in the western United States to an extent that no other part of the country matches it. Dettinger, Udall, and Georgakakos (2015) also states how recent research and studies strictly point a limited number
Access to healthcare amenities is critical for country residents. Ideally, all residents should be able to suitably and confidently use various services such as primary medical care, dental services, behavioral health, emergency services, and public health facilities. Access to healthcare is important for some reasons. They include overall physical and intellectual health status checks, prevention of diseases, detection and illnesses treatment, death prevention and a critically ill individual’s life
When someone gets sick or injured they expect to receive medical care, whether it be as a public or private practice. We tend to think that most everyone has some type of health insurance to cover the expensive costs of medical care but in reality there are many who cannot afford such. The universal challenge has been how to get medical coverage for everyone around the world, but is this ideal too radical? Each country has its own pros-and-cons with health care plans. The United States, among others, have just recently reformed our own. There are many types of medical coverage around the world that still face the endless rising costs, as well as the lack of accessibility to public and/or private health care. Here, we will look at other countries to see how the medical coverage models they have adopted have helped improve their own health care and how these same models could potentially improve our own.
Proper health is not a luxury but an essential service which ensures people are able to work efficiently. It is the duty of the government to make sure that its citizens can access the necessary healthcare services regardless of their financial status or location. Therefore, the government has put in place healthcare policies which ensure that every citizen is able to access the facilities efficiently (Boltyenkov, 2015). The policies in the healthcare system keep changing now and then depending on the economy of the country. The economy greatly influences the distribution and quality of healthcare services. When a country has a good economy, most of its citizens are likely to afford most services at an affordable rate (Boltyenkov, 2015). However,
Humans rely on each other for survival, whether mentally or physically. When the responsibility of survival relies on other members of the group and their help and not just the individual, all members’ chance of survival are improved (Taflinger, 1996). Therefore, when addressing the idea of improving health on a global level, the need for interconnectedness and reliance on each other cannot be ignored. As Holtz (2017) emphasizes, global health has no geographical or political boundaries and encompasses the health of the entire planet. So, why does global health matter? The health of people in a certain area in the world eventually, in some way whether positive or negative, can affect another area of the world, if not the entire world. This effect may be directly related to health, such as the spreading of disease,
Health Care System is the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services. America is the 37th ranked country which provided better health care, according to the World Health Organization. Although, United States spends more money on Healthcare than other countries still, this country was not in a better place in the Healthcare system compared to the western countries. American performance management of the Health Care system was instantly lacking which is why America was in the last place compared to the other countries, however, The Affordable Act helped the United States to move out from the last place by giving the Health Insurance to 50 million lower class people which
Access to health care varies vastly across the globe. Hence, issues surrounding access to health care vary as well. For example, reports from the World Health Organization indicate that often, families have to pay out of pocket for health care and suffer the consequences of impoverishment owing to the absence of universal
Geographic studies on health care and wellbeing have often been divisive. Some researchers have primarily been devoted to health structures, examining correlates and predictors or describing patterns in data using sophisticated statistical techniques (Aday & Andersen, 1974; Buor, 2003; Wilson & Rosenberg, 2004); whereas others have focused on psychosocial elements and/or the cognized environment and how they influence or inform the patterns of health care access, usage and behavior (Parr & Philo, 2003; Parr, Philo & Burns, 2004). The task for most emerging health geographers and researchers including myself has been to merge these dichotomized approaches to health studies and social science at large (Hartshorne & Clark, 1962; Lawson & Staeheli,
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The number one rapid booster for a countries economy comes from health care. Country the has strong foundation system of healthcare will boost the industry, attract and keep people involved and also create new jobs in the society. The healthcare sector is created using various industries that range from pharmaceuticals to health insurers and hospitals. Each industry is made up of many different dynamics. As the healthcare sector has different dynamics, investments are a major variable to this sector. Investments can either go positive or negative from a ray of demographics to reimbursements. In addition, Healthcare has an important role in the countries’ politics, verifies the countries Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Along with the sector of
It’s impossible for poor rural women and their communities to cope with the effects of climate change when both are perpetually in crisis mode. Their capacity to adapt must be strengthened. Compared to men in poor countries, women face additional cultural, social and economic barriers that make them more vulnerable to climate change. They have limited access to productive assets such as land, credit, and extension services, and they continue to lack voice and decision-making power on agriculture policies and programs. As a result, they are in many cases the first casualties of volatile climate conditions, falling into food insecurity and malnutrition. This reality demands a gender analysis toward climate change mitigation” (Hunger report 22) This being said, our increase in involvement improving women’s rights for education, ability to voice their opinions and breaking cultural norms that restrict them will result in less stress as well as more food. This will break the cycle of poverty. Educating women agriculturally will benefit them and increase their involvement in growing and cultivating produce, which will lead to them selling what they make and gives in increase in their home’s
Poor Medical health care is something prevalent in many countries. Every family all over the world has suffered deaths due to poor medical healthcare and insurance. The decreasing in the quality of health services provided to the individuals and patients is Poor medical healthcare. Poor Medical Health care is a critical problem that has to end, as studies about it showed that adults in the United States receive half of the needed health care services (EA & RH, 2001), and not only adults but also all types of citizens including children, if this problem did not end deaths of people will significantly increase (Cecere, 2009). Poor Medical health insurance can end with the aid of many solutions that will be proposed within this research paper. Thus, poor medical health care as mentioned before is a detracted problem that has to end because it is the reason of many peoples’ deaths.