Public Access To Health Care

Governments and those in power from different parts of the world put more emphasis on the health of their followers to ensure that they are healthy and strong enough to contribute to the economic development of those regions. Public health refers to the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organization, public and private, communities and individuals. However, it is worth noting that despite having many stakeholders and players who work towards the provision of this crucial service to the public, public health policies still face some challenges that make it difficult for health-care providers. Access to health care services is one of the widely

Moreover, access to public health can also refer to the ease through which citizens in a region can access and obtain the much needed and basic medical services to keep them healthy. However, access to health care services as well as facilities is more than just obtaining these services considering that the services provided might be substandard. As a result, the government through its various health agencies should put more efforts to ensure that the right help from the right health care providers get to the right people at the right time and means in the right condition and in the right manner. As a result, before making any policy concerning public health care, policy makers should pay extra attention to access of the services by the existing customers as well as a target customer. This policy is crucial for any government or health care facilities since it focuses on assisting individuals to gauge and measure the appropriateness of the health services they receive from various health care providers besides aiming at putting to use the available resources to ensure they serve the intended

The united state government has gone a step further to create and implement affordable care act which requires all individuals to obtain insurances that subsidize the cost they have to incur to benefit and enjoy medical services. With the passage of this act, there have been a lot of controversies between the federal and the state governments, care providers and health insurance organization on how to work together as a team to ensure maximum benefits while at the same time incurring a minimal cost. Studies carried out to address this issue, and the effect of affordable care act on access to care indicated that there had been a significant increase in the number of people who have access to medical care with a reported 12.5 million influx in the number of people who can access suitable and appropriate medical services in the region. However, one of the notable disadvantages of this policy is the increase in workload to all medical practitioners and it upon them to rise to the challenge considering that the government has no intentions or plans to increase the number of nurses in the already stretched