Comparative Analysis of Health Indicators: Thailand, Germany, USA

This report provides a synopsis of health indicators, comparing healthcare systems in Thailand, Germany, and the United States. It examines key metrics such as life expectancy, mortality rates, access to care, and the prevalence of chronic diseases. The analysis highlights disparities and challenges within each country's healthcare system, including the impact of socioeconomic factors and lifestyle choices. The report also explores the epidemiological transitions and priority areas for each nation, such as addressing non-communicable diseases in Thailand and diabetes management in Germany. By comparing these diverse healthcare systems, the report aims to offer insights into global health outcomes and the effectiveness of different approaches to healthcare delivery.

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Introduction
Effective healthcare generally refers to improvement and management of any illness,
diagnosis, prevention from any health-related injury, and recovery. To measure the
effectiveness of the healthcare of any particular region or country, it is important to
understand the health indicator. Health indicator help in analyzing and understanding the
health system performance. It helps in comparing multiple geographical areas against their
progress of health outcome (Culyer, 2014). This paper intends to examine the health
indicators for developing countries compared with the developed countries and the United
States.
Healthcare is an effective and important element that every country need to works for
achieving the optimal health outcome. Globally, the health system and delivery of care are
continuously evolving. However, there is huge health inequality along with multiple factors
such as economic and social relating health outcome across the world. The health system
varies accordingly from developing countries to developed countries. Thus, considering
Thailand as the developing country and Germany as the developed country, the evaluation of
the health indicators can be initiated. The health indicator can be the health target from the
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and also overall health coverage.
In Thailand, life expectancy has increased in the last four years, and it is 75.5 years.
Besides, the healthy life expectancy rate is around 63.4 years. The universal health coverage
includes infectious disease, reproductive, maternal along with child health, non-
communicable diseases and service capacity. The child immunity level was around 99
percent, along with 91 percent of pregnancy care. Twelve percent of people are expending for
availing healthcare from out of pocket. The health system of Thailand works towards the
increased in the availability of efficient quality and reliable data along with free from gender,

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age, characteristics and race. The rate of mortality within the age frame of 30-70 years. 14.5
percent of people are dead due to cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory disease, along
with diabetes. Eighty-nine percent of people need assistance in family planning. The death
due to any natural disaster is very low. 8.3 percent of people consume alcohol along with
14.4 people of people commit suicides (Apps.who.int, 2020).
The developed country considered here is Germany, the most advantageous of this
health system, the cost of the health care services are handled by the government along with
multiple share costs. The life expectancy and avoidable mortality are high, and however,
morbidity due to chronic disease is reduced. Thus, this needs to manage and reduce the rate.
Access to care or health system is very strong and functional. The mortality cause in this
country is due to the unhealthy behavior, and such behavior includes alcohol, smoking and
being overweight. Nineteen percent of people are smoking in Germany, and 60 percent of the
adult is overweight (oecd.org, 2019).
In the United States, the health risk factor is also a leading factor for multiple
diseases such as 13 percent of people smoke along with 28 percent of the adult are
overweight. The disparity in the United States is within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people. There is continual progress in this sector. Another challenge is disparities within the
urban and rural region along considering socioeconomic groups. Therefore, the federal
government has provided funds or incentives to the general physician for working and
treating in the rural areas (International.commonwealthfund.org, 2020).
Comparing all the countries, Germany has reduced in the health disparities as they
have around 120 health-related institutes that promote effective health of socially depressed.
The demographic and epidemiological transition of Thailand is that the life expectancy rate
has increased comparing to previous years which is good progress. However, with the

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increase in life expectancy, effective care of adult people has also increased and necessary
(Apps.who.int, 2020). The epidemiologic of infectious disease has also improved as 95
percent of people in the country have access to sanitization. Besides, disease such as malaria
along with tuberculosis is no longer a danger or threat to the people. However, the priority
area of Thailand is to focus on non-communicable disease as the chronic disease is becoming
a burden to the country. Such as changing food style, lifestyle and related healthier behavior.
The epidemiological of Germany has also reduced there is a low rate of infectious disease.
However, the morbidity due to chronic disease has increased. The main reason is the increase
in diabetes. The diabetes management needs to be the priority area for the country. Thus,
diabetes management can be effectively managed with the change in lifestyle and team based
care management approach (Kiran et al., 2015).
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it has been understood that there are different needs and
demands of the health system in different countries. The developing and developed countries
have been compared with the help of health indicators for understanding the health outcomes
and health system. Thus, the priority areas of each country have been addressed accordingly.

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