Healthcare Comparison Report: Past, Present, and Future of Services

This report provides a comparative analysis of healthcare quality in the United States, focusing on the evolution of services from the past to the present. It examines key aspects such as mortality rates, the organization of healthcare services, and the impact of advancements in medical practices. The report highlights specific examples, such as the changing landscape of chiropractic services, to illustrate improvements in healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. The analysis considers factors like healthcare finances, workforce diversity, and care delivery methods. The report draws on research to demonstrate the progress made in enhancing the overall quality of life through improved healthcare services. This assignment, available on Desklib, offers insights into the transformation of healthcare in the US.

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Comparison Chart
Quality of healthcare services
Previous year Current state
Research has shown that the mortality
rate was high in United States in the
previous year. There was a time when
the mortality rates were high,
respiratory and diarrheal diseases are
rampant. This was due to low
organization of healthcare services, high
cost of the available services as well as
the low quality of the available services.
The reason for poor healthcare services
was also due to low level of awareness
among the people regarding health and
hygiene. For instance, Chiropractic
services were earlier excluded from
health insurance as it faced a lot of
criticism and opposition from the
medical practitioners as well as due to
the issues of cost, supply and competition
(French et al., 2013). Earlier cholera and
diarrhea were responsible for a large
A large number of measures has been taken
in order to improve the quality of life that
has resulted in the decrease in the rate of
mortality (Mahler, 2016). Mortality rate is
one of the measures to define the success of
healthcare and thus, decrease in mortality is
an efficient way to know the changes that
has occurred in United States for improving
healthcare services. This can be explained
by the use of an example that highlights the
difference of chiropractic services in the
US. Chiropractic services are now included
as clinical services that show effectiveness
in the treatment of the
neuromusculoskeletal disorders or low back
pain disorders (French et al., 2013). It has
also been included in some plans and
schemes that cover this in preventive care.
The quality of healthcare services can be
improved by the use of improved healthcare

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number of deaths that was due to
overcrowding in the hospitals, no
provision for ventilation, and poor
sanitary hygiene. It was a time when the
disease was known, however the science
was not developed so that proper
medicine could be developed to stop it
(Sheingold & Hahn, 2014).
finances, diversity in workforce as well as
care delivery. The modern healthcare
services thus, has improved in all the
aspects in order to provide quality care.
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