World Health Care System Analysis

To quote Mahatma Gandhi “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold or silver.“ It is true – health is our greatest treasure. Most people understand the importance of health and wants to save it. Others start taking care of it only when it starts to slip out of their hands. In mos cases health servises is our only choice in ensuring well-being for ourselves. A specialised organisation whitch is responsible for ineternational public health is WHO – World Health Organisation. It is a part of United Nations Development Group. By the year of 2013, the WHO had 194 member states. A country becomes a full member of WHO after officialy agreeing to the Constitution of World Health Organisation. This organisation‘s main goal is to improve

The America we see in television or we imagine is not realy similar to the real one. In reality americans face issues that people in modern society should not encounter. According to U.S. Census Burneau around 15,4 per cent of U.S. population (that is approximately 48 million people) are not able to get health insurance. Being the richest country in the world America also takes the possition of providing the most expensive health care servises. Some americans purchase their own health insurance, though most employers pay for the health insurance of it‘s workers [Iglehant, 1992]. Only a few people can pay for their medical treatment. The ones that cannot afford it or does not have health insurance, are left to live in pain and misery (the every year payment for health care for the typical american household of four was over 20,000 dollars in 2012). The Cato Institutes director of health policy studies, Michael F. Cannon say that “the doctors should not be able to charge for a necesery care.“ A private american foundation The Commonwealth Fund did a research, which found that although America‘s health care spending is the highest in the world (in 2012 it totaled 2.8 trillion dollars), it ranks last on most aspects of performance compared with other majos countires. The study also found tha United States stands 50th in the world with life expectancy of 78 years. But even though U.S. health system

A research was carried out by World Health Organisation which found that France provide the best medical care in the world. Average life expectancy in there is 81 yaers. Medical care can be provided by public hospitals, non-profit independent hospitals and also by private for-profit hospitals. There is a lot of benefits in French health care system. First of all, no matter if a person has a job, is unemployed or even lives on the street, he has access to social security. Another great thing is that alternative therapies are covered by social insurance. Also, if a person chooses to get treatment from private clinics, his social security insurance will cover 70 per cent of the price. And those are only a few of the benefits of French health care. However, although this system sounds splendid, there are a few flaws in it too: low salaries of general practitioners, incredibly long queues for checkups (it could take up to several weeks for a regular checkup, and even a few hours in case of emergency). As we all see, French health system is no perfection. Yet even considering these and a few other disadvantages of this medical care system it still provides the best health care in the