Health Care Systems in Coumbia, Finland, and United Kingdom

According to The Director General of the National Public Health Institute, Professor Pekka Puska health is very important to everyone, individuals and nationals all over the world, but we all have our own perceptions of health and the cultural issues affect strongly to health. Generally we have good health point, but the differences between nations are large.

In developed countries people are living longer, at the moment a baby girl's life expectancy will be over a hundred years. We have good control of infectious diseases too. But the development will bring problems too: obesity, diabetes, problems with alcohol etc. As Pekka Puska said we have a great deal of clinical and medical research, drug and clinical research are important, but they affect only accounts for a small part of the population. In a developing country there is much lower lever of health.

We need global research and that should be based on evidence. First we should identify the problem and find ways to solve problems. That is exactly what I think too. We need to focus on health behaviour, life styles, social and economical life. Social media, schools, advertising, tax control are important ways to affect our attitudes. In my opinion we should not waste money on unnecessary studies. This must be taken into consideration when planning and implementing health care education.

World is getting smaller, chance of surviving alone are poor, we need to do global work. As Pekka Puska said: think globally act locally. We have global leadership WHO and international health organizations e.g Unicef, Save the Children, Red Cross. Much has been done, but there are still plenty of challenges.

In the following learning task three countries: Columbia, Finland and United Kin...

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...n Finland and UK we have only few nationalities, mostly in Finland live Finnish people and in United Kingdom live English people. The weather is different in these countries, although in Finland and England the weather varies lot; meaning that in north and south part of countries are very different weather. In United Kingdom there are a lot of experts in health care, it is typical to the developed country. Although we in Finland have only 5 million people unrest have increased in our country too, for example school shootings.

As Pekka Puska in his speech said world is going to be smaller. In my opinion patients safety is that health care system should be controlled better by the coverment, use of medicines, equipment safety, safe clinical practice and safe environment of care. I think this is big problem in every country. For this we need global work.