Healthcare In General

Posted by Ray Lewis

March 29, 2010

Healthcare is the general term used for the entire area of prevention, treatment and cure of sickness and disease using the facilities of medical professionals and resources. According to The World Health Organization, healthcare embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations. Any collective group of medical professionals and services dedicated to providing this would be termed a healthcare system.

Early before the phrase healthcare was common, the English speaking countries called it just plain medicine or more usually the health sector but it still meant the provision of a health service to treat and cure sickness and disease. Even in most developing countries there is a form of health care provision for everyone whether they are in a position to pay or not. This first begun in the UK a few years after the end of World War 2 in 1948, and became the first health care service set up and run by a government.

A system second to this, according to The World Health Organization is the one initiated in Italy where a compulsory system of insurance which the administration funds, but at a relatively low cost per individual, is used. Canada and Australia have both started similar systems and have been running since 19.6 and the 1970’s respectively both going by the name of Medicare. The main countries that do not support this universal healthcare service are America and South Africa, although they are making reforms to their health service. people who work in health care include all professionals whose job it is to uphold life, treat and cure illness and try to improve the health of people. The collective expression for this is the health care industry but the word industry may not necessarily be the best one to use.

Over a relatively short period of time, the health care industry has become one of the fastest growing in the world with an average growth rate of just over ten percent of the gross domestic product of many developed nations and is still growing, playing a huge role in the domestic economies of most nations. The United States has seen some of the biggest rises and the figures in 2006 are anticipated to be the same as 2003 with over 15 percent of GDP - it is presently the biggest in the world but the increase by 2016 is expected to be almost 20 percent.

Presently in the America over one hundred eighty million citizens are looking for healthcare 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 The United States 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 example some hard Union negotiations, compromises and the closing down of their finance arm GMAC meant this action wasn’t required.

Workers in America place this as their number one priority when looking for a potential employer and often will move to a lower paid position just to better their medical care. The health of the individuals on this planet should be something that is established on prevention rather than cure, a case of being hands-on as opposed to reactive.

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