Challenge Of Medicine: The Four Challenges To Healthcare

Challenges to medicine

The four biggest challenges to medicine are rise in health care cost, nursing staff shortage, new and reemerging infectious diseases and increase longevity and Alzheimer’s disease. Rise in healthcare cost There is constant increase in healthcare cost around the globe. In 1980, the health expenditure of the United States was approximately $250billion which has increased to about $2.3 trillion in 2008.

The price rises when demand increases relative to supply. This is the current trend in health care. America is graying, the increase in older adults population have increased the health care need. However, there are other forces that influence the cost of health care. The increase in hospital expenses, fee of the health care provider, increase in drugs price, political decisions such as additional taxes and increased regulations can impact health care costs. In addition, an increase in lawsuits which influence the cost of malpractice insurance for medical practitioners also increases the healthcare cost. The advancement of technology in area medicine is also one of the factors that increases the healthcare cost.

The rise in healthcare cost can be decreased by adopting planned

Alzheimer’s disease is sixth leading cause of death on the United States. In addition there are many challenges in caring patient with Alzheimer’s disease. Patient with Alzheimer’s disease have communication problem, change in personality and behavior like sleep problems, hallucination and delusion, paranoid behavior, agitation aggression wandering . So, they need more trained staff and twenty four hour continuous care and assistance. As discussed above there is nursing shortage and Alzheimer’s disease further adds work load to the staff. This will cause work burden and burnout in nursing staff and leads to poor care, increase injury, infection and