In Finland, all people have a right to health care. The right to secure a number of laws, regulations and recommendations. (STM 2013.) Mission through a strong understanding of the Finland’s variety of health problems, between problems of developing countries. These differences come out in my work. Having read a number of health in developing countries I chose the health care system in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian health care system was completely foreign to me before. And I felt the challenge to explore an entirely new health care system. The Ethiopian health care I found getting to know how unequal the world's people are in respect of health care. Our health care system problems affect the insignificant if compared to the development of health problems. Developing countries, population growth poses challenges for health care. As well people living in rural areas and health care services and nurses' low level. (The Earth Institute at Columbia University 2013.) UK health care system, in turn, attracted to its topicality. National Health Service (NHS) occurred in several business ideas in the name of the article. UK health care system seemed also to be justified. It focused on patients' rights, as well as equality. The National Health Service (NHS) in England had undergoing changes on April 2013 (NHS 2009). Changes in the health care system in the English interest me but in this work I did not go into them. Lastly I compared the English and The Ethiopian health system in Finnish health care system. I discuss these three countries, health care systems similarities and differences. Also discusses role that emerged through my thoughts. THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN FINLAND In Finland all people have a right to health- and social care serv... ... middle of paper ... ...s housing possible of the things I think are important. Finnish drinking culture is a binge. Alcohol consumption has doubled since 1970. Finland is one of alcohol connected liver diseases, the number of deaths caused by the tip. (Alkio 2011.) I think that Finnish health care should be developed for substance abuse health services. Preventive work with young people should be increased. This would reduce the Finnish culture of binge drinking and social exclusion. UK health care system was created in 1940 after World War II. In 2009 was created the NHS Constitution, which guarantees the rights of the patient's treatment. (Alkio 2011.) I think that the history and culture of the English illustrate the health care system. The health care system seems to be very organized and bureaucratic. It appears in my opinion in English history and culture of the patient's rights.
The history of the NHS from being chaotic to having an organised st ructure. The structure of the NHS is divided into local authority and social service, hospital services and general practitioners including specialist care. When the NHS was developed, there was no prediction of how much all the services would cost to run. The government introduced the first service charges for dentures in 1951and prescription and spectacle’s in 1952 this could have been due to everyone needing medical care at the same time. This also suggests that individuals health improved, likely to live longer and would need more services in the future which the government realised would be unrealistic to achieve. Even then, as it is currently, it remains difficult
The original ethos behind the NHS was the belief that, through the provision of universal and complete health care, free at the point of provision, the NHS would eliminate significant disease and thereby work itself out of a job. Clearly a naive view by today's standards, this ethic remains one of the problems of the NHS today: the electorate still believes that there is intrinsic value in a universal and complete NHS, although no-one can agree on exactly what constitutes 'complete' health care, and none can say what the actual benefit of attempting to provide this (rather than rationed care)...
The purpose of this essay is to introduce the history of the National Health Service (NHS) and how its formation derived from the early 1600s. It will analyse two current political issues that occur within the NHS, the postcode lottery and the reformation of the NHS, examining the positive and negative effects they have had. It will also discuss implications of regulations within professional practice and how they account for quality of care.
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Healthcare systems are put in place so that they can meet and satisfy the healthcare needs of a people within a geographical area. They have the mandate to deliver healthcare services to the intended group or population and ensure fair...
In the years that followed, numerous health acts were passed through legislative measures that sought to provide Finland’s residents with various types of public health care assistance. Today, the people of Finland are among the best cared for inhabitants of the planet. The str...
The Open University (2010) K101 An Introduction to Health and Social Care, Unit 7, ‘Understanding the Past’, Milton Keynes, The Open University.
The constitution of the World Health Organization states that “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition” (Koh and Nowinski 2010 pp 949). One would hope that this sentiment would also include the low income women of our society, however it has become a harsh reality amongst poverty stricken women that fair and affordable health care is difficult to provide for themselves and for their families. Women with an income below the federal poverty level are at a higher risk of being uninsured or under insured than the general population (Legerski, 2012). The inability to acquire adequate health insurance both privately offered and state funded, in particular can be a serious barrier to low income women's ability to seek health care (Magge, 2013). Furthermore poverty can cause some women to engage in dangerous “street involvement” causing health care providers to act with unjust prejudice in regard to their health care (Bungay, 2013). This paper will attempt to further address and justify these broad statements regarding low income women and their relationship to health care. It makes the argument that if we must see the highest attainable standard of health care as a fundamental human right than by not safeguarding our society’s impoverished women from these trials and tribulations are we not, as a country making a concession that low income women are less worthy or these rights?
In conclusion, the ultimate significance to this type of work is to improve the quality of healthcare in these extremely impoverished nations. This argument is represented in Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, Monte Leach’s “Ensuring Health Care as a Global Human Right”, and Darshark Sanghavi’s “Is it Cost Effective to Treat the World’s Poor.” The idea that universal healthcare is a human right is argued against in Michael F. Cannon’s “A “Right” to health care?” Cannon claims that it would not work, and fills the holes that the other authors leave in their arguments. All of these articles share the same ultimate goal, and that is to provide every individual with adequate health care, and to not let so many people die from things that could easily have been prevented or treated.
The system is very huge so it has to be divided into two parts of the government and the counties are responsible for their health care policy and their own NHS clinics. Also having the White Paper Act was a huge change to many people that even if they were eligible to qualify for the NHS system this would help them so it available to everyone and it helps people that can't afford it so it's basically free to who is really in need. The UK has a very advanced technology to help patients and they provide 3 plans. The plans are NHS Trust Providing Emergency, cancer care, and public health services. The United States have a health care but it's only for people that have very low income that can benefit from it.
Introduction In 1942 a report by William Beveridge formed the basis of the Labour governments welfare state, so that healthcare would be universally available and funded from taxation. Identifying what he considered the major problems being ‘five giants stalking the land’, want, ignorance, squalor disease and idleness (Naidoo, 2015). As a result, on July 5th 1948 saw the launch of the National Health Service (NHS) by the health secretary Aneurin Bevan at Park Hospital in Manchester. To provide health care for everyone from ‘cradle to grave’ based on three core principles: to meet the needs of everyone, free at the point of delivery, and based on clinical need, not the ability to pay (Naidoo 2015).
The NHS was founded on similar principles as Canada- universal, free to a point, equitable and paid by central funding (Grosios et al, 2010). Over the years, the NHS has seen numerous organizational and political changes, but still remains universal and offers care to people who need it and are not able to pay for it. The NHS is funded by national insurance contributions and taxes. The healthcare policy and healthcare delivery is a responsibility of the central government in England, whereas in Wales, Scotland and Northern Island it is the responsibility of the local governments. In the UK, the NHS is composed of two major sections- one which deals with policy, strategy and management and other section that deals with medical care; this department is further subdivided into community care, pharmacy, dentistry and general medical practice. In Britain there are many barriers in seeking specialty care; one has to see a general practitioner first, who is a gate keeper and decides on where and who gets specialty care. It can often take years to bypass this gatekeeper because there are very few specialists in the country. In the past two decades, there has been a major shift in funding moving away from central government to local counties. The UK healthcare center is facing cutbacks in funding and complaints of long waits to see surgeons and specialists is common.
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