In the United States people tend not to think twice about medical care and where they are going to go for their next doctor visit. It is a luxury that unfortunately most people in places like Guatemala do not have. In most parts of the world getting proper medical care is almost impossible. There are more than three billion people in the world that live on less than two dollars and fifty cents a day and there are 22,000 children that die from poverty every day. According to an article provided by NBC News, "More than 200 million children worldwide under age 5 do not get basic health care, leading to nearly 10 million deaths annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia, a U.S.-based charity said Wednesday" (www.nbcnews.com). Poor children and adults are at a higher risk of dying and contracting diseases than those that have money. The reasons why most countries suffer from poor medical care is because the …show more content…
Due to poverty Guatemala individuals do not have medical and health care. Because of poor medical access there are a lot of people in desperate need. The United States can help fix the issue of poor medical access in Guatemala by sending in more voluntary nurses and doctors. There is a family in Antigua Guatemala, who lived in a house made up of tarps and metal pieces of garbage. There was no floor to the house just dirt and no doors to the house to keep out bugs or animals. Six people lived in the house grandpa, mom, dad, daughter, son, and a beautiful baby girl. The grandpa was very sick and could not go to the doctor to get medicine because it was too expensive, too far, and he had no transportation. His health was compromising the health of everyone else in the house including the newborn baby born at home because the one hospital is not accessible.
Having been born and raised in a third world country, I can say with certainty that I have experienced the ravaging effect of poverty and lack of health care providers. I still
Haiti is a prime example of how human needs in one area of the world are interdependent with social conditions elsewhere in the world. Haiti, for most of its history has been overwhelmed with economic mismanage and political violence. While in Haiti Dr. Farmer discovers that his patients live in poverty, filth, pain and famine. Many of the Haitian residents will die young due to diseases or violence, especially when their own doctors are inexperienced and practice medicine in less than savory clinics. How do you deliver quality healthcare to a destitute area of the world when its residence, although may be cured of their disease, will return to no clean running water, an extreme lack of quality food and basic necessitates that majority of us take for granted, no safe shelters from disease carrying insects, and no means to protect themselves from airborne and sexually transmitted diseases. Returning to the same conditions that caused the diseases in the first place, without a change in the environment, can be viewed as a never ending battle.
Located on the western side of South America, Peru is a relatively small country with a very strong culture. Many of the people in Peru are descendants of the people who resided on the land thousands of years ago (Lyle). Because of this, much of the culture and their way of life has stayed the same. However, quite a bit has changed in the country of Peru in recent years as well, and for the better. Medical care is an aspect of the country that has never been quite strong enough. There are several different factors that contribute to this issue, including poor water, not enough medical workers, and citizens that can’t afford to be cared for when they are sick or injured (“Peru”). Medical care has been a struggle in Peru for quite some time, but things are slowly starting to turn around for the country thanks to governmental programs and projects that have been started to help with the medical care of Peru’s citizens. Although there are several programs out there to help the citizens, the country’s health care isn’t quite efficient enough and does not adequately serve the population.
Guatemala is a small country located in the Americans it's barely the size of Tennessee. Guatemala is bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast .(Guatemala by Kari Schuetz ) Guatemala has comfortable weather neither too hot nor cold. Its seasons tend to be divided into 2 parts the wet season and the dry season. From mid-May to October or November it's the wet season it's generally very rainy. From November through April is the dry cooler season with an average of 64°F.
Guatemala has experienced many significant changes to their government in the past sixty years. The government faced military coups, governmental reforms along with political and social revolutions. Many political forces have influenced Guatemala and transformed it into the country that it is today.
Throughout the world, in countries rich and poor, people have no access to basic physical and mental healthcare nor to immunizations from infectious disease. Some people have no access because they lack the resources to buy and the state does not provide it. Others may be able to afford healthcare but because there are no services available in their communities they must do without it.
All these places provided their community with either free healthcare or they paid little to nothing to get the help that they need it. Hearing the different stories from the people in the film and it 's sad that they 're suffering because they can 't get the proper medical attention. What I don 't understand is if we have the resources to help someone get better why are we using it. Americans are very selfish and all we think about is ourselves. Instead of finding ways to improve us as a whole all we think about is how we can get ahead or how we can be better than the next person. "These rates are some of the highest in the world but, unlike most developed countries, the United States does not offer health care coverage as a right of citizenship. Most developed countries have a universal healthcare program, which means access to all citizens." If other countries are moving forward and developing why aren 't we following in their footsteps so we can better ourselves as well. Even having insurance in the United States doesn 't really mean much if you need serious surgery or medical attention. Insurance companies will find anyway or reason to deny you the medical attention you need. A woman in the movie was denied this particular form of treatment for cancer all because she didn 't inform them that she has a urinary tract infection that she treat herself. That sounds
Unfortunately, in Guatemala people are not encouraged to protect the breadwinner of the family and many people are forced to halt their lives short to amend the tragedies of the unexpected. My father’s life was cut short when someone tried to steal his car from him on a normal day. I was only ten years old and to add to the misery and desolation of losing a father, he was not insured, so my mother was forced to fend for my younger sister and me. After the incident, my mother had a hard time recovering from the loss of my father since he was the sole source of income for the family. Thankfully, my mother found a way to provide us with the essentials. At that point, she no longer could think of the future, but rather how to make ends
Poverty and health infections are inextricably related. The term “diseases of poverty” is used to describe disabilities or diseases that are more prevalent in poor countries than their developed counterparts. It is estimated that 50, 00 people, of which 30,000 are children, die due to poverty-related diseases each day in underdeveloped countries (Stevens, 2008). This is exclusive of other millions of people who die from unpreventable diseases in these countries. Nearly three-quarters of people living in the third world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, fight to survive without clean water or food. In some cases, diseases of poverty are considered to be obstacles to the economic development that would curb poverty. In contrast to diseases of poverty there are diseases of affluence. Affluence diseases are ailments or disabilities that are more prevalent in developed countries. Activists claim that virtually all diseases of poverty in underdeveloped countries are neglected. Many scholars argue that the pharmaceutical industry has not taken any substantial steps in investing and has failed to devote sufficient efforts in research for these diseases. The discussion in this paper expands more on some of the common diseases in low-income countries; also seeks to explore why these diseases are
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.
I traveled to Lima,Peru, providing primary care services,medication,and preventive health education to low-income areas.I assisted physicians in seeing hundreds of people.Many of the health problems we witnessed were common,such as diabetes and high blood pressure.Without our clinic,these people would go untreated,making their conditions worse.One patient had an old IUD that was infected and embedded into the uterine wall.Unable to receive care to have it removed,she had to live in pain.This experienced showed me the importance that basic health care be provided to
“If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.” This quote by Ralph Merkle shows that something so easily taken for granted is healthcare. Most of us wouldn’t even think about it as a privilege, something that has just always been there and always will. In America, we would never even imagine not being able to receive medical care in our times of need, in other countries that is not at all the case. Many will die from easily preventable and treatable diseases because they do not have medical care. The charity Doctors of the World is committed to helping those who do not have easy access to medical care
Access to health care varies vastly across the globe. Hence, issues surrounding access to health care vary as well. For example, reports from the World Health Organization indicate that often, families have to pay out of pocket for health care and suffer the consequences of impoverishment owing to the absence of universal
Growing up in a country full of poverty and lack of proper medication was a tough environment to be born into. I still remember my mom crying about how she lost my bigger brother due to money struggle and lack of medication. She explained that before my sister and I were born, we had a bigger brother; however upon his birth he was infected and died within seventh day. Lack of medication in a country full of poverty was just what my parent and my bother didn’t need yet couldn’t escape.
The new theme for healthcare in the United States seems to be a push universal health care, just as other developed countries have because it is best for the people of a nation. So, what happens when the population of that nation is 4 times larger than another? Can we adequately compare or utilize that country as a model for universal health care systems when population sizes and dominant cultural characteristics are so different? The country of Brittan is part of the National Health Service (NHS) overseen by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.