Health Care and Prevention
December 7th, 2008 Posted by: admin
The area of medical care and the prevention, intervention and prevention of sickness and disease is collectively known as healthcare. The World Health Organizations definition is a little different and refers more to the prevention of illness and facilities to promote this, in addition to treatment that should be available to a single person as well as a whole population. Working to together this way, the whole medical community would fall under the term healthcare system.
Before the expression health-care became common, English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health sector and spoke of the intervention and prevention of illness and disease. Most developed and even developing countries have a system of health care for all to cater for those who cannot pay. This first started in the United Kingdom a few years after the end of World War 2 in 1948, and became the first healthcare service set up and run by a government.
Instead a system of compulsory government funded health insurance with nominal fees can be provided, as with Italy, which, according to The World Health Organization, has the second-best health system in the world. Other examples are Medicare in Australia, established in the 1970s by the Labor administration, and by the same name Medicare in Canada, established between 19.6 and 1984. Still, these systems of health care where everyone benefits from a government based service contrast starkly with those in The United States where almost all healthcare is paid for through the provision of insurance schemes or privately. The health care industry is considered a profession which makes use of the skills of professional health care workers who provide a service related to the preservation or improvement of the health of people who are injured, sick, disabled, or infirm.
The healthcare industry is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing industries generally consuming at least 10 percent of gross domestic product of most developed countries, healthcare can form a large part of a country’s economy. The only world nation to differ is America with over 15 percent corresponding to figures published in 2003 but it is set to rise to almost 20 percent by the year 2016.
currently in the The United States over 180 million citizens are looking for health care and it will be no surprise to learn that it is top of all concerns for those in and seeking employment. Many large companies in America are feeling the effects of these rises in health care provision and an extreme case was where the car giant General Motors was seriously considering bankruptcy because of it. In this instance some hard Union negotiations, compromises and the closing down of their finance arm GMAC meant this action wasn’t required.
In The United States, the prime concern of employees is their companies healthcare plans, even above their salaries, such is the importance placed on this progressively costly service. One answer is to this global problem is improve the general health and fitness of individuals generally so that this heavy reliance on medical care can be eased.
