Developing Health Policies in Developed and Undeveloped Countries

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Developing Health Policies in Developed and Undeveloped Countries
The purpose of this paper is to review some of the literature available surrounding the complexities of developing health policies in both developed and developing countries.
Comparative Health Systems: Global Perspectives in the 21st Century
Johnson and Stoskopf (2008) converse in detail the complexities involved in creating health policies in developed and developing or undeveloped countries. The authors reflect that on an elementary level, health policy making is a complex political process that involves a diverse team of actors or participants including both governmental and nongovernmental, individuals as well as organizations, and inevitably leads to cost-quality exchanges. The authors explain that because of poor or imperfect market conditions, and misguided political priorities, the various governments, and other social organizations, have found it necessary to intercede in the provision of health care to its people.
All nations have experienced tribulations controlling cost while providing quality and accessible care, and measuring health outcomes Regardless of the specific type of health care system offered (Johnson & Stoskopf, 2008, p. 42). Developed nations deal with rising health care costs, because of quickly progressing technological advances. Modern advances in the field of data collection, helps developed nations to provide improved healthcare quality assurance; however, these advances have not reached the less economically advanced countries where the quality of health care can be too convoluted to compute (Johnson & Stoskopf, 2008, Pp. 42-44).
Johnson and Stoskopf (2008) also explain that both developed and undeveloped countries have a p...

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...omponents to sustainable health care reform(Johnson & Stoskopf, 2008)(Lloyd-Sherlock, 2004)(Mumba Zulu et al., 2013).

Works Cited

Johnson, J., & Stoskopf, C. (2008). Comparative Health Systems: Global Perspectives for the 21st Century. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett. [Adobe Digital Editions version]. Retrieved from http://1449617662.reader.chegg.com/reader/book.php?id=09fe973ead064d38fda49da070c3ed03
Lloyd-Sherlock, P. (2004, June 01). Primary health care and older people in the south: A forgotten issue. European Journal Of Development Research, 16, 283-300. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1080/0957881042000220822
Mumba Zulu, J., Kinsman, J., Michelo, C., & Hurtig, A. (2013). Developing the national community health assistant strategy in Zambia: a policy analysis. Health Research Policy & Systems, 11(1), 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1186/1478-4505-11-24

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