International Health Care Policy

International Health Care Policy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
A) Impact of socio-cultural issues on the attitude towards health care.......................................1
B) Evaluating and comparison between the healthcare policy of two nations and its impact on
funding........................................................................................................................................3
C) Structure of care centres and translation of policies into practices........................................4
D) Barriers to Provision of Healthcare........................................................................................7
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
A) Impact and demand of Campaigns healthcare centres of UK................................................8
B) Current national and international health issues and national policies for its remedies......10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Healthcare are the life blood of each and every nation in order to prevent disease and cure
the life the of the needy. Each country has wide range of sufferers that are experiencing wide
range of diseases. Government is the major regulator of the healthcare policies so as to promote a
safe and healthy environment in the nation (Powell, 2016). Main aim of the present report is to
highlight and explore the healthcare policies of the organizations as well as the government at
international level. Further, it also enlightens the readers about the campaigning of public health
and contemporary issues being faced in the nation. It also acknowledges learners about the
effects and impact of the social, cultural and political issues that hampers the operations of care
centres. All such policies, norms and structure have been highlighted in context with United
Kingdom which is the currently chosen for the scenario and is further being compared with that
of other nations.
TASK 1
A) Impact of socio-cultural issues on the attitude towards health care
Culture of UK is included by its history. Further, it is a multi-culture nation in which
there are different type of linguistic groups, religious and ethnics. It has a rich culture that
includes music, language, family, literature and food. Attitude of people towards healthcare are
effective. However, because of ethnic and diversity in UK, there are differences in social and
cultural attitudes across nations. In this context, there are different type of issues that common, it
includes religious, traditional and moral believes. These have high impact over policies related to
healthcare in UK.
Healthcare is a non profit organization that functions to provide services and products for
the betterment of the society and its people. These corporation faces several issues in form of
dealing with its patients. The reason behind it is that, there are wide range of service users that
visit each day which comes from different nations, background, religions and society. Both the
patients and care givers are in dilemma to deal with each other (Albert, 2016). The main cultural
constraints that may be faced by the physicians and diligent includes the differences in beliefs,
values, language and attitude of both the persons engaged hereunder:
There are wide range of languages being spoken in the United Kingdom. However, most
of the citizens chooses to speak in English which is the native language of the Britishers. In
contrast to the above, UK is a vast country and each person has a different ascent which differs
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from region to region. These further prevails in health care institutes and creates a problem in
understanding the patients. Furthermore, it has been ascertained that almost more than half of the
aged citizens of the said nation does not believe in God. Therefore, in order to provide quality
and deliberate services at the health and social care centres of the United Kingdom, it is essential
to understand the belief, values, attitudes, tradition, linguistic factors of the patients by the
caregiver (Jones and Genao, 2003). For instance, a difference in the language of the two people
may create communication barrier and hence impact on the type of services at the healthcare.
Likewise, usually the people of UK greet each other by shaking hands but if the diligent is an
orthodox that is against such gestures, then the physician, doctor or nurse may avoid the same. In
addition to the above, some longanimous does not like to greet the persons of opposite sex.
Therefore, all such culture factors shall be avoided and taken care by the such institutes so as to
avoid any of discrepancies at the hospital.
Society is also another influencer of service delivery in health and social care centres.
There are large number of citizens residing in UK which have different income, class, education
and other phenomenonsphenomenon’s which is likely to impact the delivery of services in
healthcare (Blumenthal and DiClemente, 2013). However, keeping the current situation in mind,
the government of the concerned nation has announced policies of free healthcare services across
the country.
Furthermore, there exist several other issues which is likely to impact the operations of
the health care organization. These include attitudes of the people towards the care centres or the
hospital. Some of the young teens of the UK have the habit of destroying the properties of
concern which will impact and affect its operations. Likewise, the attitudes care givers and takers
also affect its operations (Henry and Stephens, 2013). There are certain nurses and physicians
that are careless towards their work and does not provide efficient services to the patients. These
are the major issues that require utmost consideration of the management of healthcare centres so
as to manage a balance between the culture, society and attitudes towards the trust or hospitals of
UK.
However, in contrast to the above, the cultural and behaviour of citizens towards the
healthcare organization is considerable then the others. They possessespossess a positive attitude
towards these institutes by providing certain types of help and resources required by the
healthcare institutes. Furthermore, numerous communities also assist these organizations by
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providing them with necessary financial resources so as to purchase relevant assets and
equipmentsequipment’s in order to render services.
B) Evaluating and comparison between the healthcare policy
Healthcare policy formation is an act of defining the goals and objectives of the nation
and thereby setting priorities and targets that needs to be achieved in the respective period of
time. This can be accomplished by the means of undertaking deliberate actions and policies
which will further assist in attaining the mission and vision of the country.
Currently, the government of the United Kingdom has announced a healthcare policy
wherein all the people or citizens of the country can avail the health care services at free of cost.
There were only two services that will be rendered at no amount of money which includes
infectious disease and use of emergency treatments. However, availing rest other services from
the hospital will cost money to the purchaser (Viruell-Fuentes, Miranda and Abdulrahim, 2012).
In addition to the above, there were two persons that were inhibited from using such services
these includes the illegal immigrants and visitors that or the non resident of the country. The
main purpose behind the launch of this policy is that to promote the a healthy and safe
environment in the country as well as meet the current challenges or issues of high amount of
accidents and infections that is spreading in the nation. Furthermore, to meet the requirements of
the lower income group people, these policies were launch. These policies and laws are
determined and formulated by the executives which includes the president of the country as well
as the politician parties (Levesque, Harris and Russell, 2013). These are more often called as
cabinet which decides the respective policies and plans after complete evaluation of the current
needs and requirements of the citizens. The influence of their decision making of healthcare
policy largely depends upon the current period, country and last but not the least the impact and
nature of policy on the stake. Difference in society and class prevails in availing the services of
the healthcare institutes. The rich and elite class people receives higher quality services from the
hospital and special care as well as preferences by the physicians. This is so because they
provide the institutes with extra money and other resources so as to treat them with utmost
vigour (Hou and Ke, 2015). Nonetheless, the lower income group people or persons with less
resources derive services not in the most significant manner. They need to wait in queues at the
emergency gates to avail the services. Therefore, a wide range of difference as well as
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