Assignment on What is the Meaning of Health System?

Running Head: HEALTH SYSTEMS
Health system in India and Senegal
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HEALTH SYSTEMS1
A country’s healthcare system is influenced by several factors such as the demographics,
economics, lifestyle, culture, values and the social determinants. Health inequities are prevalent
in many developing countries due to its strong impact on the lifestyle of the people, which
affects the healthcare systems. A person’s monetary income affects their healthcare accessibility
and the government’s policy and decision making skills plays an important part in the
development of health care systems.
The health systems of every country differs in terms of the government, the target
population, economic development and the healthcare management (World Health Organization,
2019). Countries like Australia, Canada, Kuwait, Brazil, Bahrain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Singapore,
Spain and few other countries has a universal government funded health system. Countries like
Albania, Belgium, Iran, Japan, Czech Republic, France and United Arab Emirates has a universal
public insurance system. Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Germany, Israel, Mexico and Turkey has a
universal public-private insurance system. Countries with universal private health insurance
system include Liechtenstein, Netherlands and Switzerland, and countries like Egypt, India,
Jordan, Indonesia, United States and Ethiopia has a non-universal insurance system (Who.int,
2019).
The health care system in India is a non-universal insurance system in which a part of the
population has a private healthcare insurance, few are eligible for subsidiary public health care
and the others are not provided any healthcare insurance. In India, the state government is
responsible for the provisions of healthcare and not the central government. The primary duties
of the governing body is to raise the standard of the nutrition and living, including the
improvement of public health. The parliament of India has endorsed many policies and
legislations for the welfare of the country and one of them was National Health Policy in 1983. It