Health Care Planning
Health care is the general term used for the entire sphere of prevention, intervention and cure of sickness and disease using the services of medical professionals and resources. According to The World Health Organization, health care embraces all the goods and facilities designed to encourage health, including preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to people or to populations. Jointly, this provision of medical facilities would be known as a healthcare system.
The term health care has not always been used though and prior to this is it was often just referred to medicine or the health sector but this was utilized more by English speaking countries. Most developed and even developing countries have a system of healthcare for all to cater for those who cannot pay. It was the United Kingdom that pioneered the first population based healthcare system back in 1948 called The National Health Service run by each successive administration.
A system second to this, according to The World Health Organization is the one initiated in Italy where a compulsory system of insurance which the administration funds, but at a relatively low cost per individual, is used. Two other systems like that in Italy, both using the name Medicare, one in Australia and the other in Canada were begun between the late 1960’s and the early 1980’s. The main nations that do not support this general health care service are America and South Africa, although they are making reforms to their health service. health care professionals are dedicated to preventing sickness and disease primarily, but also to treat and protect the long expression health of their patients.
Over a relatively short period of time, the health care industry has become one of the fastest growing in the world with an average growth rate of just over ten percent of the gross domestic product of many developed countries and is still growing, playing a huge role in the domestic economies of most countries. The only world nation to differ is America with over 15 percent corresponding to figures published in 2003 but it is set to rise to almost twenty percent by the year 2016.
This fact is highlighted by the large number of American citizens who have serious concerns about their health care, around 180 million to be precise, and the main worry for anyone seeking employment in The United States. Many large companies in The United States are feeling the effects of these rises in healthcare provision and an extreme case was where the car giant General Motors was seriously considering bankruptcy because of it. It was only after negotiations with the unions to reduce certain health benefits and the subsequent sell off of its poorly performing finance division that stopped the unthinkable from occurring.
The American health care system costs a great deal to employers but it is the number one thing that potential workers look for in an employer and has seen many changes in how individuals view working for any given company. One answer is to this world-wide issue is improve the general health and fitness of people generally so that this heavy reliance on medical care can be eased.
