Sri Lanka should reach 100% institutional delivery level. It helps to further reduce the maternal and infant mortality.
Sri Lankan mothers migrate foreign countries as housemaids to increase the economic condition of their families. This is one of the major income in Sri Lanka. But her children loose her protection. It directly effects to the child mortality and malnutrition. The government should introduce barriers to migrate women as housemaids, especially mothers who have small children. Sri Lanka should encourage to male workers to go abroad.
It is necessary to introduce a pension scheme and health care system for the elders. Otherwise demographic transitions would be a financial problem in their families.
It is important to pay attention on non-communicable diseases. Health sector should launch awareness programmes to prevent non-communicable diseases. On the other hand, health facilities should be improved in the government and private hospitals.
It is more important to invest finance on medical experiment and it would improve the medical sector of the country.
The government should improve the participation in Non-Government Organizations (NGO) to provide the health care facilities. It would reduce the financial burden of the government.
The tourist industry is a major income source in Sri Lanka. If private sector encourages more, Sri Lanka can develop the medical tourism. It would be an extra income for the country.
Demand for the private healthcare has restricted mainly in urban areas. The government should introduce expand mechanisms to increase the private health institutions in the country. On the other hand ministry of health should introduce a proper mechanism to examine private sector health institutions.
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Samurdhi programme can be used as minimize the alcohol and tobacco usage in Sri Lanka. Illegal alcohol usage in very high level in Sri Lanka. The relevant authority should take actions to minimize this situation.
Sri Lanka should produce at least simple medical instruments and drugs to save foreign exchange.
It is hard to find finance resources for the health development due to the limited financial capacity of the government. However, it is better to ordered health requirements and offer financial support to more prioritized needs. It helps more efficient and effective health service. It would improve accessibility and availability of health service delivery, especially for vulnerable groups in the society.
The government should provide the political leadership to implement the necessary reforms in the health sector in Sri Lanka.
If the federal government support the small business financially, this may result in more prospurity, and co9vergae of clinical shortage . It is important to assign deligates to persuave some banks to l begin accepting applications from financial institutions who are interested in becoming Community Advantage lenders. It is essential to lobby the government to join thousands of partnerships , and focus on health,, education and welfare. The role will be more effective if we expand the partnership globally. global funding. Global funding can be significant in building program targeting HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis that are high risk from these diseases. Our focus should be focused on human development and not on energy development.
An aging population is indeed a problem for the society and will possibly cause many social and economic difficulties in the future. According to David Foot (2003), professor of Economics at University of Toronto, an effective birth rate of 2.2% against current 1.75% will be necessary to replace the current work force in the near future and the government’s policy of bringing in more immigrants will eventually fail (Foot, 2003, 2). However some people predict that the increased size of an aging population will drive growth in the home, health care, and many other industries resulting in job creation and economic growth (Marketwire, 2013, 1). Majority of the people are of the opinion that the issue will be mainly in the health care and economic activity. As humans age, they start to develop health problems, leading to more visits to a medical clinic putting extra burden on health care system.
Despite the established health care facilities in the United States, most citizens do not have access to proper medical care. We must appreciate from the very onset that a healthy and strong nation must have a proper health care system. Such a health system should be available and affordable to all. The cost of health services is high. In fact, the ...
The governmental level of responsibility is to protect and advance the interests of society. The market place alone simply can not ensure that all Americans will have access to quality health care. The government must acknowledge the interests brought about by citizens in general especially in the health care realm. Proper planning and ultimate goals set to achieve high quality care will require strong partnerships among federal, state, and local governments solely. A combination of all sectors of the government is what American needs to succeed.
...e crucial change needed in health services delivery, with the aim of transforming the current deteriorated system into a true “health care” system. (ANA, 2010)
Improving health is in the best interest of everyone, including non health professionals. Health mangers need to be constantly looking for ways to improve access to health, the quality of the care, and cost containment.
In order to provide affordable health care, government should have huge amount of money to be invested in the hospitals, for arranging doctors and for financing.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Among the 17 goals the third goal is to achieve good health and well-being (UNDP). To achieve this goal, it is definitely known that passing the obstacles available in the overall activities performed to bring about health and well-being. The third goal in its sub goal gives attention on achieving universal health coverage which is an ongoing process for every country as they work to ensure that all people receive the health services they need without experiencing financial hardship. How these financial hardships can be minimized?
Instead of waiting for a condition to arise in the human body, people should practice preventive care to maintain ideal health and prevent illnesses from occurring in the first place. Preventive care includes such things as immunizations and vaccines, routine physicals, regular medical checkups and periodic colonoscopies.
To comprehend our current health care system, it is important to understand the history and how health care has evolved in the United States. The healthcare system we have now didn't always exist. Believe it or not, before 1920, most people would not of known what health care coverage meant! So how did the United States turn into one of the few developed countries lacking nationwide healthcare? Understanding U.S. healthcare history will help you understand the dynamics that built the system that, we struggle with today. Furthermore, I will make conclusions on the current problems we are facing.
In many parts of the world that are considered lower or middle-class countries, health disparities are cause of major concern that leads to unnecessary disease and possible death. Many variables affect how and why many citizens of lower and middle-class countries struggle to obtain adequate healthcare. One region of the world classified as a lower socio economic territory is Ethiopia. Many factors contribute to the lack of health care in Ethiopia such as access to care, high cost of care, and being uneducated, to name a few. One idea that hinders many citizens in Ethiopia to attain healthcare is the access to the healthcare system. This research project will entail the issue of access to the health care system; ways it is affecting the lives of those living in Ethiopia, and measures that can be taken to possibly increase the availability and attainment of healthcare.
Nowadays governments, NGOs and other organizations try to limit the migration, but it isn’t possible as successfully as it is expected, because the main causes of migration are rooted in the society and it is hard to uproot them. The main migration aims can be divided into two aspects- economic and social aspects. Economic aspect includes mainly problems with money and desire for better job and salary. Migration to achieve better job and salary is only chance for women to gain poverty, because then they can be economically independent from their husbands and families. For men it is easier to get better job whit better salary and better working conditions. Unfortunately for women it isn’t so easy. Mostly they get works that is connected with entertainment, manufacturing, social works or education. But not always the conditions are good. The job could be illegal, irregular, with lower incomes and with poor working conditions. But ...
Britain and Indonesia are both island nations that have universal health care systems. Because of the vast difference of population, the healthcare system is greatly different, as
...tly should attend to the most urgent and highest needful problems to reduce the risk of developing those issues. Health priorities include reduction of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), decrease the road traffic accidents rate, reduce the infectious disease and vaccine preventable diseases, prevent transmit of HIV infections and reduce the poverty by minimizing gap between rich and poor. In addition, this health problems should be addressed in accordance to WHO guidelines, Millenniums development goals and according to other international health reporting standards. Moreover understanding the burden of disease is important where it helps to measure weightage of disease in a specific nation with that of the global situation. So supportively this will help to prioritize the urgent health problems in the country which will support the prevention of those health issues.
... about Pakistan, where I live there very less hospitals at the moment which provide proper care to patients and if the hospital beds would be full of such patients then other people whose diseases can be cured would not be treated properly.