Healthcare Issues: Addressing Problems and Searching Solutions

This presentation addresses critical healthcare issues prevalent in modern society, including doctor shortages, health disparities, and immigrant health concerns. It begins by highlighting the challenges posed by a rising population and increasing demands for healthcare, leading to shortages in medical facilities and personnel. The presentation identifies risk and protective factors associated with these issues, analyzing the impact of doctor shortages, inequalities in healthcare access, and health issues specific to immigrant populations. It proposes solutions from medical and community perspectives, such as NGOs establishing dispensaries in rural areas, raising awareness, and promoting equal access to healthcare. The role of the community in addressing these issues is emphasized, suggesting initiatives like awareness campaigns and community-based healthcare programs. The presentation offers a comprehensive overview of healthcare challenges and potential strategies for improvement, providing valuable insights into the complexities of public health.

HEALTH CARE ISSUES
Addressing the problems and searching for solutions

 Health care issues are a major concern in the modern society.
 Rising population has to led to the increase in health care issues.
 Demands for health care are on an increase with every passing day.
 This has resulted in shortage of proper medical facilities.
 The following slides are on the identification of health care issues.
 Identifying, analysis and addressing the issue are the main objective of
this presentation.
Introduction

Shortage of Doctors
• Shortage of adequate number of doctors is one
of the major concerns of the modern heath care
system.
• The rising population has directly increased the
need of doctors.
• The shortfall of doctors has been increasing in
the past few years (Crawford, 2014).
• The problem, identified a few years back, is far
from improvement.
• There is a critical need for specialist physicians.
• Providing the ageing population with adequate
number of doctors is the rising concern.

Risk and protective care of Doctor Shortage
Protective Factors:
• Maintaining proper patient doctor
ratio.
• Investing in the infrastructures of
Medical Colleges to attract more
number of trainee doctors.
• Making the society aware of the need
of doctors.
• Offering lucrative incentives for doctors
to attract them in the profession.
Risk Factors:
• Unavailability of proper
treatment.
• Decline in proper monitoring
of chronic diseases.
• Improper diagnosis of
diseases.
• Outbreak of epidemics
• Improper disaster
management in times of
emergency

• Identifying the issue
• Planning the solution
The Medical Association
• Planning the infrastructure with the medical
association
• Arrangement of proper funding (News, 2018)
Government
• Increasing seats for candidates to enroll in the
medical profession
• Attracting the young generation by making them
aware of the health care issues and their duty
towards society
Medical Colleges
Addressing Doctor Shortage from Medical perspective

 NGOs can create dispensaries in
rural areas to attract doctors.
 Communities can organise health
care programs to bring doctors to
areas suffering from lack of
doctors.
 Making the youth aware of the
medical profession and its benefits.
 Encouraging youth to take up
medical profession.
Addressing Doctor Shortage issue from Community Setting

 The inequality in health care is a
major issue in the modern world.
 Resulting in different health
parameter index in different
groups.
 The difference is made in terms of
gender, sexual orientation,
disability and most importantly,
race and ethnicity (Baciu,
Negussie & Geller, 2018).
Disparity in Health care system

 Protective Factors:
 Awareness among doctors can lead
to the decline of health disparity
 Awareness of equality and
universal brotherhood can
eradicate health disparity.
 Advanced government medical
facilities can provide equal
treatment to everyone irrespective
of class and category
Risk Factors:
 It can create high sense of social
insecurity (Pearcy & Keppel, 2016)
 It curbs the individual rights of
getting proper medical facilities.
 Health disparity can lead to several
health issues in a particular section
of people
 This may lead to the evolution of
chronic diseases in certain section of
the people
Risk and protective factors of Health Disparity

 Building more state of the art
government facilities
 Free medical treatment to
everyone
 Providing healthcare to every
citizen, irrespective of class and
caste
Solving Health Disparity in the Medical Scenario

 Community plays the most
important role in removing health
disparity
 Promoting awareness among
people about the ills of
discrimination can deal with health
disparity issues.
 Silent protests and honest opinions
highlighting real cases can appeal
more to the horrific nature of
discrimination.
Community’s role in removing Health Disparity

 Immigrant health care is a major
issue.
 Around 80000 people migrate to
USA each year.
 The immigrant carry diseases from
their native lands (Ostera & Blum,
2016).
 Susceptible of spreading infection in
the host country.
 Monitoring and providing health
care is a major issue.
Immigrant, Refugee and Health Care Issues

 Protective Factors:
 Severe monitoring of Immigrants
(Kan, Choi & Davis, 2016).
 Identifying the diseases.
 Application of vaccination in
proper time.
 Isolating the infected.
 Spreading awareness among the
immigrants as well as the local.
Risk Factors:
 Outbreak of unknown diseases
can lead to severe loss of life
 If a foreign infection spreads, then
it can make a permanent
residence in the host country.
 The home population when
exposed, is in severe danger due
to their lack of immunity to the
certain disease.
Risk and protective factors of Immigration Health Issue