Global Healthcare and USA Healthcare Crisis

Running head: GLOBAL HEALTHCARE CRISIS
GLOBAL HEALTHCARE AND USA HEALTHCARE CRISIS
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1GLOBAL HEALTHCARE CRISIS
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2016), the definition of health is
the state of physical and mental wellbeing that allows individuals live freely in their respective
environment and maintain harmony among the community. This definition determines that
health is not just a disease free body, but also a stress free mind that helps to achieve the long-
term results of healthcare institutes. Besides the healthcare techniques and interventions,
healthcare policies play pivotal role in disperse health interventions properly in the society
(Katon & Unützer, 2013). However, in this era, where every disease is curable, the global
healthcare is facing challenges such as quality crisis of America and lack of health professionals
in Malaysia (Youbg & Kroth, 2017). However, the challenges faced by global healthcare society
and local or state based healthcare societies are different. The global healthcare is concerned
about the disease transportation whereas; the local healthcare is suffering from shortage of staffs
and quality (Blumenthal & Dixon, 2012). The purpose of this assignment is to point out the
healthcare related loopholes in global as well as American healthcare society.
According to the World Health Organizational (2016) report, the current trends of global
healthcare is facing challenges regarding these three priority issues, which are increasing
mortality rate, survival of life in the first five years and widening gaps in the adult healthcare. the
global report of WHO determines that the risk of mortality is not just affecting the healthcare of
developing country where the mortality rate is 40% of total registered deaths but also in the
developed countries where the mortality rate is around 60%. Further, as there are more than 10.5
million children die every year around the world (World Health Organization, 2016). Therefore,
survival of children in the first 5 years is one of the main motives for the Global Healthcare
society. Poverty, socioeconomic status and availability of good nutritious food and medicines are
one of the social determinants of health in this region of the world where children are at higher

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risk of dying. Similarly adult mortality rates has decreased since 2002 however, 45 million
deaths occurred in the year 2015 in which 70% of the deaths were due to violence war and traffic
accidents (Baker, 2014).
There are plenty of reasons for the Healthcare crisis occurred in the United States of
America. The primary reason was elevated healthcare related costs. As the cost of healthcare
started rising the federal budget disrupted and people having low socioeconomic status become
enable to access quality Healthcare as the Healthcare system costs where doubled compared to
any other developed country (World Health Organization, 2017). The cost of healthcare can be
estimated from the fact that American Healthcare sector contributed 3.2 trillion dollar or 18% of
the total US GDP. Secondly maximum of the people were unable to access primary healthcare,
as they are not covered with health insurance. Furthermore, maximum of the researchers
indicated that the Healthcare sector of USA spends billions of dollars on expensive care units,
which can be eliminated to provide ordinary Americans standard quality Healthcare (World
Health Organization, 2017). Researchers compared the overall mortality rate, infant mortality
rate and life expectancy and capital spending of Canada and USA and found that the annual per
capita spending of Canada is $3,000 less than that of the USA. Both the infant mortality rate and
overall mortality rate are lower than that of the USA (Nicolaidis et al., 2013). However, the
difference is between the single payer and multiple payer of Canada and USA respectively.
According to some researchers due to this strategy individuals having no insurance will not be
able to high quality Healthcare for any kind of health problem (World Health Organization,
2017).