Developing countries have fewer resources to obtain than the developed countries like America as a result of different social and environmental factors. Currently, developing countries are catching up by doing researches on the biosensor or self-diagnose devices within the range they can afford. The developing world is striving to improve their quality of life. The Social factors and Environmental Factors in developed and developing countries affect the medical devices in different ways. Social contacts are ways people interact with one another and it 's factor are such as culture and religion, but also many other aspects that fall under the culture umbrellas like, ethnicity, race, nationality and etc. For instance, there was a weird medical …show more content…
all have income above 25000US dollar except for Russia which only has income between 10000 and 15000. Based on the information, it instructs that lower income countries, therefore, are exposed to fewer resources. Which are different tools required along with the manual labor needed to create such medical products or health services in a country. The medical care availability within the country 's level of resources and its level of economic stability cause the wealth of its country depends on the natural resources and economy of the individual country. They are directly correlated. The graph below illustrates the …show more content…
But financially and educationally it is still a crucial problem in developing country, where people don 't necessary has the knowledge and capital to do research in the biomedical field. Their only way is seeking low-cost research with most efficient productions. Developed countries will always be ahead of the developing countries because they are more economic stable and has an abundance of resources. Our biomedical career is affected in ways that we are trying to solve this issue by helping the low-income countries improve their health service by a collaboration of Western organizations and Africa in order to do studies and researches. Also, the funding is a massive issue that creates this imminent barrier of uneven health distribution between developed and developing countries. Engineering education should discover ways to produce a low funding medicare. The low-income countries, developing countries with many different point of views on culture, religion and economic unstable implication will result it to provide less medical services to its people, on the other hand the developed countries which means high-income or economic stable countries has all the social and environmental factors that support them in producing medical
... becoming malnourished. Medically related subjects are effected by cultural in all areas on the world for the wide cultural diversity.
The next driver of importance for world health is technology. The implementation of innovative medicine is a primary interest for the U.S., Japan, and Germany (Reid, 2008). Unlike these other countries, the United States has a greater commitment to technology than it does to health care expenditures (Barton, 2010). This regard has led to changes in clinical practices and the level of knowledge of consumers (Drivers of change). Patients gather information pertaining to disease or illnesses from reliable m...
Health inequalities in any country is an important issue. There are many reasons for inequalities in health, for example, gender and age, economic and social factors.
Over the past decade, scientists have made significant advancements in the treatment of certain diseases. Unfortunately, just like any new product, the cost of developing these new technologies and treatments is extremely high. Plus, unlike other technology, heath technolo...
The pharmaceutical and biotech industries must be free to develop and research life saving medicines and other advancements that will benefit society. If this cannot be done, progress would never be made. People would still be contracting polio a...
Figure 1 shows various industrialized countries per capita spending on health-care, and the percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). Particularly, it is clearly seen that the United States has the highest per capita spending on health-care compared to other countries.
All four countries are undergoing an epidemiologic transition as treatment and control of infectious diseases continues to improve. However, the major issues that affect each country and how the country has responded to their problems are vastly different. It is funny, but in the midst of writing this reflection, I somehow found myself in a conversation with someone who was horrified by the quality of healthcare in “third world” countries. This assumption that poor countries have horrendous quality of healthcare is not uncommon. Fortunately, these assumptions are wrong. Though developing countries are facing the unique problem of operating a healthcare system in an environment with inadequate resources and public health infrastructures, they have managed to develop incredible solutions. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a combination international and national interventions has been so successful that these countries have the highest percentage of ART coverage in any low-to-middle-income countries (Garcia et al., 2014). Cuba’s WHO health ranking is 39, approximately the same as the U.S. and achieved at a fraction of the price. As countries shift into the third epidemiologic transition, many of the basic systems for obtaining medications and seeing health care professionals are already in place. These four have taken the first important step and declared that healthcare is a right for all, something that even the U.S. has failed to do. Though they must continue building upon their current infrastructure, they have the advantage of hindsight and seeing what has worked in other countries. As we have seen during our study of the U.S. and other OECD countries, there is no one perfect health system. However, I am confident that the health systems that emerge from these developing countries will be one that works for the
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.
Current research suggests the countries with the smallest income differences have the best health status rather than the richest countries. Where income differences remain great, as in this country, health inequalities will persist. For example: Children in the lowest social class are five times more likely to die from an accident than those in the top social class, Infant mortality rates are highest among the lowest social
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Medical technology encompasses a wide range of health care products that are used to diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases (Chandra & Skinner, 2012). Medical technology may include medical devices, vaccinations, pharmaceuticals, information technology, biotech, and healthcare services. Such technologies are intended to improve the quality of health care; while also containing cost, through earlier diagnosis, less invasive treatment options, reductions in hospital stays, and rehabilitation times. One of the leading theories is that medical technology is growing faster than expected and wit its advancement, it has become a major contributor of health care expenditure in America.
Preventing diseases is every countries’ responsibility, whether they are poor or rich. Poor countries lack the knowledge and the money to gain, and expand medical resources. Therefore, many people are not been able to be cured. For wealthy countries, diseases are mutating at incredible speeds. Patients are dying because drug companies do not have enough data to produce vaccines to cure patients. When developed countries help poor countries to cure their people, the developed countries could help underdeveloped countries. Since developed countries can provide greater medical resources to poor countries, people living in the poor countries could be cured. As for the developed countries, they can collect samples from the patients so that the drug companies can produce new vaccines for new diseases. When trying to cure diseases, developed countries and poor countries would have mu...
Everyone is always competing for the best health care. Different health care systems are different through out the world, but all with similar ideas of at least delivering some form of health care. Some countries in particular will be highly emphasized: Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Japan in how they work with cost, access, and quality with in the health care systems in their own countries.
In modern society, governments in both developed and developing countries contribute financial resources to various forms of research and development (R&D). This type of investment assists society to function more effectively, because of inventions and innovations in many sectors, such as health, education, technology and science. In this way, social growth is encouraged at both a national and international level, which further supports improved business and commercial expansion. Based on this, it can be understood that government funding promotes scientific exploration of new ideas and processes that can advance the standard of living around the world. Therefore, it is argued that government funding for research benefits society. This will be examined with reference to the way government funding for medical research aids society, and scientific production on technology.
Technology has helped create devices and group studies that stop the spread of diseases before it is wide spread and stores information to help doctors identify illnesses. The World Health Organization now has a large database of illnesses, their symptoms and their causes thanks to specific software programs now available to all medical