Demand for Healthcare: Impact of Income on Availing Services

ESSAY ON DEMAND FOR HEALTH CARE
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Introduction
Healthcare is one of the most vital aspects of the lives of all individuals. Better healthcare
facilities can help in the improvement of the standard of living of people and can lead to an
increase in the life span of a person. However, there are a large number of healthcare issues
such as skin concerns and traffic accidents, which do not require immediate attention and
depends on, individuals. It is up to them whether to avail them or not. With the advent of new
technologies, there have been a number of radical changes in the healthcare industry. There is
better equipment available, and better technologies have revolutionized the industry for
treating dermatological disease as well as emergency conditions that may arise due to traffic
accidents. On the other hand, it has been observed that a huge amount of money is considered
for arranging better treatment of those two healthcare issues such as skin treatment and traffic
accidents. The essay is aimed to understand the various healthcare services available and the
impact that the income of a person has on the availing of the healthcare services.
Discussion
Healthcare industry has seen massive changes over the years, due to the rapid advancement in
the field of technology. In the opinions of Bates et al. (2019, p.912), the traditional models of
healthcare have been scrapped, as new technologies and tools have found their way into the
industry. Additionally, improved technology has also made it easier to render emergency
treatment for the fatal cases of traffic accidents. It has a huge impact on two different groups
of people those are affected healthcare issues. In the opinions of Benn et al. (2017, p.81), the
massive innovation process required for the development of the highly accurate and effective
tools has led to the rise in the costs involved in the healthcare process. Besides, a huge
amount of money is required for availing healthcare treatments, which have a profound
impact on low earning level patients. This is because the various healthcare organisations buy
these tools at a very high cost and therefore, charge the patients high to compensate for the
cost. This same trend can also be observed in the case of a dermatologist, who uses improved
as well as innovative tools for the treatment of skin care. In addition to this, enhanced high
quality As influenced by the ideas of Einav, Finkelstein and Mahoney (2018, p.721), it can be
stated that the healthcare sector is considered as one of the major industries, bringing in high
profit for the proprietors of the organisations for the sectors such as skin treatment as well as
emergency treatment. This is evident from the fact that the number of healthcare
organisations is increasing daily.
Health care services are broadly categorised into two categories based on the necessity of the
services that is skin disease as well as an emergency treatment for traffic accidents. In the
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words of Fayet-Moore et al. (2018, p.82), there is a kind of healthcare service that is having a
high necessity and cannot be ignored. The other kind of healthcare service is also referred to
as luxury services (Omicsonline.org, 2019). This means that the services are not necessary to
be taken, unlike the other category. These services, which include skin disease, as well as an
emergency treatment for traffic accidents, totally depend on the individual, whether the
individual will avail them or not. For example, in the case of any major accident, the victim
has to undergo through all the stages of healthcare that the doctor prescribes. In the words of
Florence et al. (2018, p.514), there are a number of cases where patients have to avail a
specific healthcare service, even though it is too costly for the patient.
On the other hand, there are second kinds of healthcare services that is emergency traffic
accident require luxury treatment. As stated by Galvin et al. (2019, p.8), these services are a
product of the advancement in technology and have gained high popularity in recent years.
Previously, these services were not available or widespread. The major factor in these
services is the fact that these services are quite expensive. As influenced by the ideas of Kent
et al. (2017, p.812), these services of providing skin treatment and treatment for emergency
traffic accidents are totally technology driven and require highly sophisticated equipment and
tools. Therefore, these services are costlier than basic health care services.
Impact of out of the pocket expenses on low-level income patients
The fact of whether a person will take up a luxury service is highly dependent on the income
of a person. A person with low or average income cannot afford to take up a luxury service
without any proper budget planning. Sometimes, it is even impossible for a person to buy a
luxury service owing to the low incomes. In the opinions of Metsemakers et al. (2017, p.81),
most of the luxury services available in the market are for the elites, with high income. The
fact that these services are not at all cost effective adds to the list of limitations of these kinds
of services. They are in no way for the survival of an individual and are adding on to the
basic services. The income of a person is highly detrimental to the fact whether the person
has the capability of availing these services or not and there can be no second thought about
the fact.
In order to afford luxury treatment of various healthcare problems, it is important to have
sufficient financial background to continue the treatment successfully. Besides, the luxury
treatment process of healthcare issues such as sudden road accident and skin care problem
has huge on the people who are belonging low as well as the average income of their
professional life. On the other hand, those people belong income background highly, are very
much able to continue the luxury service of treatment.
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