Not improving access to health centers or hospitals

Opinion Editorial
Not improving access to health centers or hospitals

I have been always fascinated about my field of interest that is nursing as this profession
provides me the opportunity to care for people in need of professional health care services. From
my experience what I have realised is that the concept of universally funded public healthcare
system is not widely accepted by a school of thought and are constantly forcing the system to get
privatised which has happened in many parts of the United States and this has led to the
improper improvement of access to healthcare for many people. According to Jacobs (2016)
access to health centers and hospitals is still a major issue in different parts of the world. Even
when the developed nations have brought in number of policies to ensure the access to healthcare
is equal and in line with the human rights the practical result has shown differently most of the
time especially in the USA. Human Dignity has always been an important aspect in the field of
healthcare and most of the healthcare centers try to apply the elements of human dignity in order
to provide the best possible services to the care users, however, it has been seen in number of
occasions that health centers are not able to completely comply with the human dignity factors
that ultimately affect another principle of realisation of common good (Stievano et al. 2012).
As a healthcare professional one should always focus on improving the system of service
provided to the care users but as there is no improvement of access to the healthcare centers of
hospitals there has been a significant breach in the human dignity. Numminen, Repo and Leino
Kilpi (2017) states that the human dignity guides people to act in a way that is reasonable for
every human being giving respect and treating everyone equally and this has always been my
primary motto (Lin, 2013). I have been able to do a fair amount of research on the subject of
human dignity and realisation of common good that clearly shows that in the field of nursing
human dignity is considered imperative especially during practice which means it is important
for me to respect and treat every individual in a particular manner that would help to provide
services to all (Sabatino et al. 2014).
However, I have seen that there are still elements of racism and cast issues present in the
healthcare system that doesn’t allow human dignity to play a crucial part in imparting treatment
to the patients. This has also helped me to realise the core issues related to improper access to
hospitals and healthcare setups which are the deprivation of the poor and vulnerable, racism,
inequality in access to healthcare et cetera which I feel could be handled with the principles of