Health Care Issues - Assignment

HEALTH CARE ISSUES
Addressing the problems and searching for solutions

 Health care issues are a major concern in the modern society.
 Rising population has to led to the increase in health care issues.
 Demands for health care are on an increase with every passing day.
 This has resulted in shortage of proper medical facilities.
 The following slides are on the identification of health care issues.
 Identifying, analysis and addressing the issue are the main objective of
this presentation.
Introduction

Shortage of Doctors
• Shortage of adequate number of doctors is one
of the major concerns of the modern heath care
system.
• The rising population has directly increased the
need of doctors.
• The shortfall of doctors has been increasing in
the past few years (Crawford, 2014).
• The problem, identified a few years back, is far
from improvement.
• There is a critical need for specialist physicians.
• Providing the ageing population with adequate
number of doctors is the rising concern.

Risk and protective care of Doctor Shortage
Protective Factors:
• Maintaining proper patient doctor
ratio.
• Investing in the infrastructures of
Medical Colleges to attract more
number of trainee doctors.
• Making the society aware of the need
of doctors.
• Offering lucrative incentives for doctors
to attract them in the profession.
Risk Factors:
• Unavailability of proper
treatment.
• Decline in proper monitoring
of chronic diseases.
• Improper diagnosis of
diseases.
• Outbreak of epidemics
• Improper disaster
management in times of
emergency

• Identifying the issue
• Planning the solution
The Medical Association
• Planning the infrastructure with the medical
association
• Arrangement of proper funding (News, 2018)
Government
• Increasing seats for candidates to enroll in the
medical profession
• Attracting the young generation by making them
aware of the health care issues and their duty
towards society
Medical Colleges
Addressing Doctor Shortage from Medical perspective

 NGOs can create dispensaries in
rural areas to attract doctors.
 Communities can organise health
care programs to bring doctors to
areas suffering from lack of
doctors.
 Making the youth aware of the
medical profession and its benefits.
 Encouraging youth to take up
medical profession.
Addressing Doctor Shortage issue from Community Setting

 The inequality in health care is a
major issue in the modern world.
 Resulting in different health
parameter index in different
groups.
 The difference is made in terms of
gender, sexual orientation,
disability and most importantly,
race and ethnicity (Baciu,
Negussie & Geller, 2018).
Disparity in Health care system

 Protective Factors:
 Awareness among doctors can lead
to the decline of health disparity
 Awareness of equality and
universal brotherhood can
eradicate health disparity.
 Advanced government medical
facilities can provide equal
treatment to everyone irrespective
of class and category
Risk Factors:
 It can create high sense of social
insecurity (Pearcy & Keppel, 2016)
 It curbs the individual rights of
getting proper medical facilities.
 Health disparity can lead to several
health issues in a particular section
of people
 This may lead to the evolution of
chronic diseases in certain section of
the people
Risk and protective factors of Health Disparity

 Building more state of the art
government facilities
 Free medical treatment to
everyone
 Providing healthcare to every
citizen, irrespective of class and
caste
Solving Health Disparity in the Medical Scenario

 Community plays the most
important role in removing health
disparity
 Promoting awareness among
people about the ills of
discrimination can deal with health
disparity issues.
 Silent protests and honest opinions
highlighting real cases can appeal
more to the horrific nature of
discrimination.
Community’s role in removing Health Disparity

 Immigrant health care is a major
issue.
 Around 80000 people migrate to
USA each year.
 The immigrant carry diseases from
their native lands (Ostera & Blum,
2016).
 Susceptible of spreading infection in
the host country.
 Monitoring and providing health
care is a major issue.
Immigrant, Refugee and Health Care Issues

 Protective Factors:
 Severe monitoring of Immigrants
(Kan, Choi & Davis, 2016).
 Identifying the diseases.
 Application of vaccination in
proper time.
 Isolating the infected.
 Spreading awareness among the
immigrants as well as the local.
Risk Factors:
 Outbreak of unknown diseases
can lead to severe loss of life
 If a foreign infection spreads, then
it can make a permanent
residence in the host country.
 The home population when
exposed, is in severe danger due
to their lack of immunity to the
certain disease.
Risk and protective factors of Immigration Health Issue

 The immigration health issues can be
effectively tackled.
 Proper monitoring, and
identification.
 Proper vaccination and medication.
 Isolation of infected individuals and
giving them proper medical
attention.
 Specialist doctors must be appointed
for the medical examination of
immigrants.
Addressing Immigration Health Issues in Medical Setting

 The host community can plays an
important role.
 Formation of NGOs can help the
refugees.
 Providing immigrants temporary
care and medical facilities.
 Growing awareness among people
to go through regular medical check-
us.
 Monitoring health issues in
immigrants
Community’s role in addressing immigration health issues

• Crawford, M. (2014). Doctors from abroad: a cure for the physician shortage in America.
Health progress (Saint Louis, Mo.), 95(2), 45-48.
• Baciu, A., Negussie, Y. and Geller, A. (2018). The State of Health Disparities in the United
States. [online] Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Available at:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK425844/ [Accessed 29 May 2018].
• Ostera, G., & Blum, J. (2016). Strongyloidiasis: risk and healthcare access for Latin American
immigrants living in the United States. Current tropical medicine reports, 3(1), 1-3.
• News, A. (2018). GME Funding and Its Role in Addressing the Physician Shortage. Retrieved
from https://news.aamc.org/for-the-media/article/gme-funding-doctor-shortage/
• Pearcy, J. N., & Keppel, K. G. (2016). A summary measure of health disparity. Public health
reports.
• Kan, K., Choi, H., & Davis, M. (2016). Immigrant families, children with special health care
needs, and the medical home. Pediatrics, 137(1), e20153221.
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