What is the solution for all of these health problems that plague our world? One thing cannot solve everything. There is not one magic thing that can solve the health care system in America. There is not one thing that can solve all the illnesses that plague third world countries. There are a series of small things that we can all work too. First, In America where obesity creates havoc on our population. That hurts our health systems because obesity leads to other illness. Hearts are stressed. Heart disease is prevalent. Lots of people have health care so lets kill two birds with one stone. Encourage the population to stay fit to keep health care rates low. Obviously this shouldn't include disease that can't be helped, but encourage people to eat healthy and work out. How do we help the third world countries? This is tricky because a country is third world because the government is in dismay. The way to help these people is by making resources known and available to everyone that needs them. The more readily accessible to more treatment that is used. Suppliers need to price fairly to allow supplies to be used in many areas. There are so many simple things that would improve the health of the world. Using cars less and doing a simple carpool with your coworker cuts down on emissions. Continue to tax things that hurts humans like putting a high tax on cigarettes makes them less likely to be bought often. Create outlets for cigarette alternatives to alleviate the nicotine need. The reality that not everything can be fixed, but if we all work together a change can be made
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The Human body is a complex system. We can control so much of what goes into our bodies. There are things that we need to do that don't directly affects us but will. The air we breath is goes all the way through us. If the air is not good then that affects our body. In highly populated areas, the air quality is often less than great. Large cities in China and America often deal with the affects of smog. The poor Air quality can lead to respiratory distress. Distress can include cancer. It can be just as bad as smoking cigarettes daily. Government studies have indicated that low-income, racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to live in areas where they face environmental risks. Compared to the general population, a higher proportion of elderly are living just over the poverty threshold. People's conditions may worsen and that lead to respiratory distress. If the condition is so bad lung transplant might be needed. That would really only be in extreme cases This is why people need to be conscientious about what goes into a body. The body is sensitive. Lighting a cigarette and smoking it is terrible for you. However, it affects the people around you too. That is why releasing unwanted air contaminants in to the sky can be a killer too. Another health issue plaguing our known world is not a physical ailment. It is mental health. People argue that the mental capacity of a person is almost always as important as a persons physical state. If a person is not all there mentally it difficult for a person to function properly. It is also not good for a society to have mental health deficiencies. A person that experiences difficulty with their mental health status often experiences their brain sending wrong signals to their brain. The brain sends signals to the body saying that it is in crisis mode. These signals can cause a person to injure themselves or someone else on accident. A person might also do it on purpose. These signals can cause a person to also break the law. Mental diseases like schizophrenia also may not form until a person is older. A child may be perfectly normal its entire life, and then in their 20s they experience a change in their mental state. A schizophrenic person often hears voices or objects may talk to them. These voices appear to tell the person something. This literally makes the person feel crazy and can often make them lash out. Medications help the person to keep the delusions in check but a person with schizophrenia often goes off of their meds because "voices" tell them too. Another crippling mental health disease that many people struggle with is depression. Depression causes a person to reach extreme lows in emotion. A person feels a sense of hopelessness. Unfortunately the signs of depression may be hidden. An outside person may not know how depressed a person may be until a person suffering for depression kills themselves. Preventable diseases like malnutrition is another huge killer among people. 7.5 million children die a year from malnutrition. Malnutrition is continuing to be a rising killer in almost all countries around the world. It is one of the worlds leading global diseases. Malnutrition does not just include those that are skin in bones, but obesity is also a form a malnutrition. Malnutrition is one of leading causes in children under 5 deaths. Causes for this includes poor diets and not having access to foods that will sustain the human body. It appears that one in three people suffer from poor nutrition. undernourishment is the new normal. Kids either do not have the access to foods, or they are choosing not to heat them or eat at all. When thinking of an undernourished person you may commonly think of a poor person not eating enough because they do not have the resources to do so. This in fact is only one side of the problem. In reality obese people make up a large percentage of those undernourished people. When a person continues to eat and eat and their BMI reaches an unhealthy limit, it becomes harder and harder to eat enough food that helps the body to function at its best. Research says that when living with someone that is obese there is and 8% increase in income loss. The other side of undernourishment is not being able to eat anything. whether a person cannot eat because they cannot find food or chooses not to sustain their body, the result is the same. Eating disorders make up a lot of these cases, because it is not as easy as just getting food. A person has to choose to eat it. Counseling is needed to combat the problem and get rid of the body dysmorphic tendencies. Another rising issue in third world countries especially in African countries is HIV/Aids. The continent of Africa holds eleven percent of the world's population. However, it hold sixty percent of the worlds HIV/Aids population. The number of people being affected by the on going aids epidemic has increased eight times from the years 2003 and 2005. South Africa has the largest population of HIV/Aids. 7.1 million people are living the disease in South Africa. Even more statistics of South Africans include 110000 Aid related deaths have been reported in South Africa in 2016. There have been 270,000 new cases of HIV in South Africa alone in 2016. 55% of all Children living in South Africa are on antiretroviral medications to help stop the spread of the disease. Children are being subjective to a disease that has no known cure. It makes it difficult to create a thriving society. This calls in the question of how do you make a society that can move forward as profitable nation when most of your citizens are plagued with disease. 86% of the people are aware of their HIV diagnosis. 65% of those people are receiving treatment. 81% of those people are virally suppressed. When people are ill like this and the disease is not under control it is hard to work on issues like poor infrastructure to make the country's wealth increase. In 2014 there were around 37,600 new cases of HIV in the United States. Compared to South Africa which calculated that in 2016 there were 270,000 new cases. The thing that makes all this more difficult is that there is no known cure. Treatments help but do not ensure a clean bill of health. People will continue to die from this disease. One of the best ways to help this problem is to be safe with sexual partners. There are plenty of things that prove our mortality. Health care is advancing rapidly. Solutions are found everyday for medical mysteries. However, as it has been brought up several times before if you do not have the money for these advances they cannot get the treatments that they need. This is an increasing problem in the United States, but this problem is worse in third world countries. Third World countries do not have the resources to have remote clinics, and they also don't have the many means to reach the wide demographic.
People of third world countries also continue to suffer and die from diseases that Americans can get treated more easily. For example unclean water is a huge contributing factor to deaths in the undeveloped countries. 1.7 million people die every year from poor hygiene and dirty drinking water. Malaria kills 1.2 of people every year. This affects mostly children under five years of age. Poorly designed irrigation and water systems, inadequate housing, poor waste disposal and water storage, deforestation and loss of biodiversity, all may be contributing factors to the most common vector-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue and leishmaniasis. Another killer that is not uncommon to developing countries is unintentional poisonings. These include inappropriate exposures to unsafe chemicals. These chemicals can include unsafe pesticides and use of toxic chemicals. Tuberculosis is also a common killer in low income countries. In the United States there are many treatments to cure tuberculosis. In America people are able to survive. However in a nation that cannot afford various treatments to these illnesses, people die. Children are not vaccinated. Birth rates are lower than in developed countries. Vaccines are not available to many developing countries. This leaves availability to keep the door open to diseases that could be slightly eradicated. Diseases like Polio could be almost completely gone, but countries in Africa cannot afford the different vaccinations keep the diseases around. One solution that is occurring today, is doctors from the states go to Africa to help bring assistance to the poor, but it is not enough. A few doctors can only do so much. It would take hundreds of physicians but that does not solve everything. Africa would still have many impoverished countries. So far we have looked into how insurance companies have made things more difficult with people back in America. But know we are going beyond the protected United States and see what the health care system is like in poor third world countries. Health care in third world countries is far worse than it is here. Health care life insurance policies are based off how healthy the person on the day of applying. It is important for these people to get life insurance polices because many people are plagued with constant threat of disease, little drinking water, wars zones, insufficient food supplies, poverty, and poor living conditions. These all contribute to higher mortality rates. Even insurance companies cannot profit from life insurance policies because of the high mortality rate. The Elite class gets great polices and the lower class practically nothing. The middle class is non existent. Because of this the rich hold all the economic power while the poor are left to their own devices. Once family member dies it is a small comfort to have the sum of money as life insurance, but if their is not money than the family is left to bury their dead with no monetary value to use as comfort. The upper class again really is the only the ones that actually benefit from the health care systems in third world countries. Diseases like Malaria kills around 1.2 million people in Africa a year. These casualties are mostly young children. Things like clean drinking water accessibility also poses a gigantic issue to the world's overall heath. With no clean drinking water, diseases can harbor in the waters for long periods of time. Women that are pregnant that continue to drink this water can hurt themselves and their unborn children. The toxins in water can lead to low birth weight, along with other birth defects, but ultimately ending is SID (sudden infant death) syndrome. Other problems arise with third world countries like accessibility to health care. Lots of villages and town in Africa and other poor countries are remote, and not many options are there for those people. If a child gets sick or an accident occurs, many hospitals are hundreds of miles away and people die because of it. When physicians finally do make it to these remote areas many people are beyond the point of care. People do not have the ability to remain healthy because the resources are not there. In this post I will bring to light what is covered by most insurance companies and what Health Insurance companies are leaving for their costumers to deal with. Monthly for health care a premium must be paid. What is a premium? It is the monthly cost for coverage. According to Healthcare.gov, premiums can only be based on five factors. These factors are: age, tobacco use, location, individual or family enrollment, and plan category. The first one to look at in depth is age. Older people can get premiums that are three times larger than those of a young person. By the age of 46 the average premium begins to increase. By 60 a person's premium could be increased by around 3000 dollars. A young person is more likely to pay a significantly less. Another factor in higher premiums is location. This affects how much a person pays because of cost of living per state, local rules, and or competition of other insurance companies. Another factor that contributes to heath insurance companies premiums is whether or not the person receiving coverage uses tobacco. The idea behind this is, a person has the right to smoke, however with this bring higher premiums because a person who is exposing themselves to somewhere around 4000 chemicals and at least 70 carcinogens should have to be accountable for their actions. Smokers are not only putting themselves at risk but the effect from their second hand smoke is just as toxic. Since 1964 it is estimated that 2.5 million nonsmokers have died from second hand smoke. Another way the insurance premiums are determined is by who is on the plan. One of the questions is, is it only one singular person on the plan or are is there a family on it as well. Insurance premiums can increase based on who is on the plan. A plan that includes a spouse and or children will have higher premiums. Another way premiums are determined is the plans status. Plans range from Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Catastrophic. The Bronze plan is the cheapest and it covers the most basic of plans. In the last blog post, I talked about how the quality of health care. Health care qualityj depends on the quality of care. This is an issue for families that are impoverished. Families' that do not have the option to get decent health care, probably will not have the best care. This does not mean that families that are impoverished will not be treated kindly or nicely. This just means that families do not have the means to get all coverage of care they can. For example a lower class father with stage three prostate cancer. In this stage the cancer has grown outside the of the prostate but has not reached the bladder. With treatment such as external beam radiation and hormone therapy, or surgery the outlook from treatment can be positive, but if a family does not have good coverage, some of these options may not be available because the price makes it that way. This brings up another issue woth insurance companies. As we have continued to discus, a person gets what they pay for. How much you are worth will help determine how great your care is. How to get that care coverage is another hurdle that a person has to jump over. If a child or parent is likley to have a pre existing condition it makes it difficult to get good coverage. Why? because insurance companies do not want to pay more money than they have too. A family that has a child that may have a genetic disorder and seeks treatment might cause a family to pay an arm and a leg for treatment because and insurance company isn't willing to give them the coverage they need. That child in life will struggle to find coverage when they are an adult too. A solution to this problem is to not have insurace companies base their prices on how healthy their buyers are. But more on that next blog report. One billion people around the world lack access to health care services. Medicine is constantly advancing, and many of its citizens do not have the ability to take advantage of these advances without going into large amounts of debt and or not even getting the treatment at all. This can lead to quality in health care to decrease. Others questions arise, like does the quality of healthcare change because of the type of coverage we have? With medicine advancing the world has been able to practically eradicate polio among other diseases. Surgery has advanced to the point where laparoscopic surgery has caused less invasive surgeries to take place. But what has become common in the USA is still lacking in third world countries. People do not even have access to clean indoor drinking water let alone life saving procedures. This makes the argument that the quality of heath care is determined by what your coverage is. Cost inequality is basically shows that the amount of money you make equals the quality of health care you can have, and that in return equals your quality of life. This is a huge issue. This shows that humans are choosing who lives and who dies. No man should have that choice. A person that has a disease and can be treated and cured but can not get the treatment should not have to die. To find a solution to this problem is not easy. To begin trying to solve this problem you have to look at the health care system at its root. Procedures use lots of expensive materials and the hospital billers. To begin why does the hospital need to bill you on every single thing. The hospital needs remember that it is there to aid the people and not profit off of how ill someone is. |
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