Nursing Assignment: Healthcare in Greece

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT 1
Healthcare: Nursing Assignment
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NURSING ASSIGNMENT 2
Question 1
The performance indicators done by the World Health Organization (WHO) has
ranked countries based on their statistics. Using Greece as a country of choice, the paper
discusses the parameters of average life expectancy, cause-specific mortality, neonatal
mortality rate, maternal mortality, and morbidity. The statistics outlined by WHO puts
Greece as one of the countries with the highest average life expectancy ratio (Georgakis et al.
2016). Many male citizens reach the ages between 75 and 79 years of age, but very few of
them are found in the age bracket between 80 and 84 or above 85 years. The figure means
that the average life expectancy ration of men stands at 78 years as provided by (Storto &
Goncharuk, 2017). The life expectancy of women is, however, higher and stands at 83 years.
The WHO reports also provide that Tuberculosis (TB) is the major problem (cause-specific
mortality) affecting people in Greece. Greece has a low neonatal mortality rate which stands
at 3.16 deaths per 1000 live births. This figure shows that the healthcare systems in the
country are in the right conditions. Better healthcare services are also responsible for the low
maternal morbidity rate. However, diseases like Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS have known
threats to the existence of humanity in Greece.
If allowed to choose one of the indicators in which I would offer free nursing care
services, then I would gladly choose cause-specific morbidity. Cause-Specific morbidity is a
problem or rather, a disease in a region which is linked with more deaths in such an area. If
free nursing is offered on this indicator, the safety of all other health performance indicators
would be boosted, and that’s the reason why I would choose it.