The Essence of Healthcare Management: COVID-19 Impact Analysis Essay

This essay delves into the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare management, focusing on socio-economic factors, regulations, and their effects on healthcare systems in England and India. It examines key elements like income, education, employment, family dynamics, and social support systems, highlighting the challenges and changes in healthcare delivery. The essay analyzes the influence of government regulations, lockdown measures, and safety protocols on healthcare services and populations. Furthermore, it discusses the patient-bed ratio and hospital management strategies implemented during the crisis. The analysis also explores the role of population data, patient outcomes, and the development of strategies to manage and mitigate the impact of the pandemic. The essay provides an overview of the challenges and the adaptation of healthcare systems in response to the crisis.

THE ESSENCE OF HEALTHCARE
MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
SOCIO ECONOMIC FACTOR WHICH ARE ABLE TO AFFECT THE HEALTH CARE
SERVICES DUE TO COVID-19...............................................................................................3
DIFFERENT FACTORS WHICH ARE ABLE TO AFFECT TEH ECONOMIC AND
FINANCIAL CHANGES IN ENGLAND AND INDIA DUE TO COVID-19.........................3
RULES AND REGULATIONS WHICH ARE AFFECTING THE HEALTH CARE
SYSTEM.....................................................................................................................................6
POPULATIONS.........................................................................................................................7
PATIENT-BED RATIO..............................................................................................................8
HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT....................................................................................................9
LOCKDOWN MANAGEMENT..............................................................................................10
STRATEGIES FOR COVID-19...............................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Coronavirus is an emerging disease which is having due to virus infection and arising day
by day which leads to create a huge problem for the world. People of the world, they need to
manage their day to day life due to this virus. This one is also creating the health related issues
which create some complications in such person who are having already some diseases. This
virus is able to create the challenge for many countries and their health management. There are
many countries who were facing many problem. Due to having this virus, this created many
problems for the world and ways it create many complication and health issues in many patients
or people which leads to loss of life. There are many factors which are able to affect the health
services which include social economic factor regulation population ratio and many more able to
affect the delivery of health-care services for people. Large number of population is due to not
having the proper information related to this virus and about the precaution for the prevention of
this virus. Due to not having the proper information the regulatory body of the country are
changing their guideline as per new update. This creates new rules and regulation volunteer
services which are able to affect the Socio-economic factor and the quality of life which people
are trying to leave (Mossialos 2019).
MAIN BODY
SOCIO ECONOMIC FACTOR WHICH ARE ABLE TO AFFECT THE HEALTH CARE
SERVICES DUE TO COVID-19
Covid-19 is threatening health-care resource and there were no information related to
origin, precaution, treatment, effect etc. Due to emerging by the growth of unknown virus strain
which is now known as covid-19 virus. This virus is the stain of corona virus family which are
able to create sudden attack due to multiple change in the worldwide such as so economical
factor. This report involves the the analysis and discussion about England and India (Gidron
2017).
DIFFERENT FACTORS WHICH ARE ABLE TO AFFECT TEH ECONOMIC AND
FINANCIAL CHANGES IN ENGLAND AND INDIA DUE TO COVID-19
Factors England India
Income There were not so many loss
in the income in comparison
Income rate of the people got
decreases due to lockdown.
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to India but the people of this
country faces financial losses.
Financial stability of this
country were supported their
health care system (Sharp
2017).
People were not able to do
their business but the spending
on the daily food item
increases the shortage of
money.
Education This country online education
system were developed so
there were no high losses in
the education system because
the student have already
familiar with this education
system. Due to covid-19 all
the students gets the
experience of the online
system for their study.
Due to the covid effect there
can see the change in
education. There is highly
increase in the study of online.
This creates the interest in
online study. Students of India
faces many problem due to
this new system. They are not
able to get the information
through the online classes
which created so many
difficulties in the education
system (Jacobsen 2018).
Employment In England there where no
highly registration to go for
their job. There was the
restriction for not to gather
around and avoid the
gathering of more number of
persons in the marketplace
when there is a risk of
spreading of covid virus
(Ahmadi-Javid 2017).
Due to this covid defect, many
of the people lost their job
because the company got high
loss due to effect of lockdown.
This created high number of
unemployment in this time
because having less number of
work and for maintaining the
physical distancing, there is
not any chance of full
employee which also leads to
decrease the number of
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employee and ultimately
creates the unemployment.
Family In England all the families
where following the physical
distancing rule and the
guidelines which ware issued
by the government. They are
taking proper medical
precautions which can be
helpful in preventing such
virus.
This lock down more concern
about their safety and there
neighbour too. Family has
taken each and every possible
prevention activities to
prevent the virus and to keep
their family safe (Moss and et.
al., 2016).
Social support Society had supported and
given their best which can
help their health-care
organisation by following the
safety measures and the
guidelines which were issued
by government (Ou, J.Y and
Kirchhoff, A.C., 2019).
The people of India have
supported their health care
system by providing funds for
the import of medical
equipments along with to
serve poor people there
nearby. There are many
people who have given their
best to support the community
and for public welfare. There
were the higher rate of fear
and anxiety during supporting
the health-care people through
nearby.
Social values Society has supported all the
community and the
government by using and
applying the guidelines as
safety measures which can
help them to get safe from this
In India there were the major
issues which were created by
the social values of different
religion. Due to not having the
proper communication and
information related to the
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virus. covid with testing their
confusion about the testing of
covid in the ruler area. This
created the problems and
many difficulties for the health
care team to help then for the
treatment of Corona. This
created the and supportive
behaviour regarding the health
care services they are
guidelines and the precautions
measures (Serafini 2020).
RULES AND REGULATIONS WHICH ARE AFFECTING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
From the initial stage of covid-19 in both of the country England and India there were
many changes which are done by the government in the health services. There has been
implemented restrictions and safety measures time to time indefinite time period. In England this
virus first found on 22nd January of 2020 and also in India it was identified on 27 January of
year 2020 and till now taken multiple actions and regulations for the safety of the people.
Regulation England India
Lockdown In England there was initiation
of the restrictions from late
March but there were not the
whole lockdown all over the
country. Government provided
many relaxation given in May
for the employees who are
able to go for their work by
using their private because
there was new type of
lockdown which was
The first action which was
taken by the Indian
government which was
initially started at 22 March in
year 2020. It was an
experiment of 14 hour curfew
which was extended as the 21
day lockdown. Then it
continuously increasing due to
not getting control over the
spread of corona virus. After
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developed in November 2020.
There were some of the
restrictions shared which was
used by the health-care
organisation for the prevention
of covid-19 effect (Chen
2016).
the 6 month lockdown give
some relief and removed some
restrictions to go for the work
for the economic development
of the country which was gone
so much down.
Safety measures In England there where the
self isolation period which
was about 14 days which was
suggested to everyone. This
was regarding to stop non-
essential travels and to keep
them safe isolated from
creating the gathering like
parties, theatres, and pub.
There where the initiation of
work from home which
creates a tradition which
helped so much to the
employee and also for the
company who are not able to
open in such situation where
they were going to loss.
There were various restriction
and orders which were given
by the Indian government such
as wearing the mask, applying
the proper sanitization of and
hand etc. There were
restriction on the nonessential
travelling after 8:00 p.m. in
which it was excluding the
Medical Services and health-
related issues. Government
suggested for having the
proper care of health where
they also provided some call
services which was related
with counselling for those who
where feeling and going
through the psychological
problems or depression.
POPULATIONS
It is the one which refers to the quantitative data which are in the number and can give
the information in the number about the question how many or how much etc. Each and every
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country have their own number of population in which it is being discussed about the England
and India and are discussed further.
England- There is about 67,885,091 people in this country in year 2020 and about
66,796,808 people in year 2019. About 80% of the total population got infected with the virus
which is COVID-19 which are able to create different complications in the human body. That
was the reason to get scare from this virus because there was no information related to this virus
nor any prevention or treatment in all over the world. This virus was able to create the serious
health issues in human health and leads to patients death (Kirk 2016). It can be see that the data
were very high in the initial stage of the virus where the slope can be seen after the time
spending but there after then the infected number of the population is too high which need to be
control to stop the human death due to this. There are many companies which are trying their
best to find the solution or say vaccine of this virus to stop the spread of this virus. This virus has
eliminated about 64,170 people of the England which is very high in number when you are
having one of the best medical facilities. This data is less due to having the best healthcare
department otherwise the number must have in double or triple in numbers.
India- There were about 1.36 billion of the population in year 2019 and there were about
9.8 million of population were found to be infected with this virus which don't seems big like the
number of infected person of England but were not small in number because this was the data
when there were no testing there in large number. Due to this the actual infected population were
not found and data looked small in number. There were also the rumours that the actual data after
the testing are being by the government of India which was not proved due to lack of evidence.
There are about 143,032 of the population got died due to not getting the proper treatment on
basic level. Some of the hospitals were not treating their patients due to fear of infection and not
having the proper idea about the treatment procedure (Kredo 2016).
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PATIENT-BED RATIO
This is the one which is able to define the data about how many of the bed is there in the
hospital in comparison to the population. This is the quantitative data which is having or using
two types of data. This shows the information by using two types of data.
England- In this country there is highest number of bed per person or the highest patient-
bed ratio is there which is very high in comparison to India. This was the reason behind the high
number of survivor of the COVID in compare to the number of person infected in this country.
There were high recovery due to having the best medical service in the world which are having
the better healthcare which enables the healthcare team to save large number of populations
which can say about the better patient-bed ratio but this was also not enough to save all the
patient when the spread of virus were on the peak and there were not the proper information
related to its treatment. The ratio was about 1:500 which clearly says that there were one bed on
every 500 people. This ratio was not enough but it helped very much to fight with this pandemic
situation and helped in improving the number of recovery (Kuma 2016).
India- This country had about only one bed over 1000 number of people which is very
less in number and there were a big problem which were that due to less information and fear
they were not accepting the patient which were not having their covid report with negative result
otherwise they were not accepting the patient. This was the reason of higher death and there were
very less control over it. There were also high price for the treatment which was not affordable to
each and every patient which causes the high number of serious patient which leads to death of
the patient.
HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT
It comes under the management department of the hospital which are run and done by
using some of the strategy or plan where there is standard for each and every plan.
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England- This is one of the highly serious country which is regarding the health issues
where the management is better and are able to manage the regulation and all operation in such
way that it can show the effectiveness of the high patient relationship. This can help in giving
the better response to the patient along with their health care team. There was a rule that the
healthcare member who got infected or there is any symptoms of this virus were not allowed to
go to their workplace to serve the humanity because they can be the one who are able spread the
virus and having the risk of spreading the virus on large scale. There were also some ward which
were not regulating the patient of covid, they were for the general health issues of other than
covid patients. The hospital sanitisation were very well to stop the spreading of virus due to
toughing the hospital surface (Hernandez and et. al., 2018).
India- This is the country where the management of the hospital were very poor and they
were not ready for such virus on the country level which leads them to demolished the health
care structure. But the country and their healthcare department and the government tried their
best to reconstruct their medical team for treating high number of covid patients. Hospital
management tried their best for managing such condition for give the better response to the
country patients. They tried their best and manage to increase the number of beds in different
places which can be use for different use in that covid situations. There were proper sanitisation
of the hospital for the proper sanitisation for not getting infected due to surface virus.
Sanitisation helped in providing safety from the spread of virus along with helpful in stopping or
slow down the spread which was one of best strategy during that time, when there were no more
information about this.
LOCKDOWN MANAGEMENT
There is need of Management for the people which is unnecessary step in this situation
which were causing loss of life. In this there is management of people which can help in saving
their life from the infectious virus. In the initial stage in the covid has spread everywhere but
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there was no consciousness among the people of world. So this was helpful in spreading this
virus continuously without showing any symptoms in their people and due to this there was a
blast of this virus infection in many people. People wearing the virus with themself during
visiting one country to another country.In initial stage when government started to make policy
to manage such virus due to lack of information they were not able to do anything. When
government decided to shut down the country for few days which can help them to buy some
time for collecting information about this virus and find out the optional ways through which that
can be manage or treated. There were many factors which were there in lockdown strategies in
the country which were creating some fear which was hazardous that time. People were thinking
to stock some food items which can help them to live for longer period of time in there house
easily. In this report, there is analysis of two country where there were failure of lockdown and
there is also discussion about not to provide health-care in a specific way (Ptaszek 2016).
Lockdown in England- According to the report there is mention about there was a health
condition in the country till the last week of September in year 2020. Recent data interpretation
and it can be seen that there pressure on the NHS who are not able to handle such huge amount
of people as the patient. Due to having a limited number of bed and higher number of present
their crisis of the bed which created health fear. Their failure of the services in the healthcare
department due to heavy load there were limited bed which were not allowed to given many
people at a time due to this nearby of capacity of the bed there due to having limited PPE kit.
The hospital where like to give the bed to such patient having the serious health issue to save
their life. Due to higher spread of the corona virus the infrastructure of the hospital and all the
doctors who are able to help they always helping the covid patient in the treatment. For the
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proper regulation of the healthcare they were making various plans and strategies. Call the doctor
and healthcare staff here positioned for the treatment of such people who were facing different
type of complications in their health.
Lockdown in India- There was lockdown started in the 4th week of March where first
was the experiment and request which was successful and then this continued as the proper
lockdown in which there are no any type of activity either the financial or the personal. In all
over the country accept the grocery product for food product and their transportation and supply
chain. This lock down give some time to think about their strategy that how to fight with this
situation. Due to continue a longer period of lock-down people got irritated which causes to
mental depression, mental health issue, fall in immunization and many more problems in the
month of early may. Such created the huge problem for the health of Indian people. The
government provided different contact numbers for counselling related to health of Indian
people, The person who were getting the mental issue like depression, were able to contact on
this number which where of the the health specialist (Puymirat 2019).
STRATEGIES FOR COVID-19
Different strategies were developed and created to fight with corona. Many countries
were facing problem the way they don't have the any strategy which can apply to tackle this virus
problem. Large number of population affected by this virus. This virus was generally spreading
as a group of virus which was initially started in the country China. Due to having the large
number of covid ward, the normal patient were facing different type of issues, in which, one of
the main was they were not able to get the treatment of their health issue. People wear trying
different type of medicine due to misguide about their treatment of the Corona.
Strategies in England- In England there are many people who were facing such virus in
which many were infected and many of them got recovered. The term government has played a
vital role with NHS. They created a strategy of physical distancing which was to keep distance
between two person and for all. One strategy was also developed which was to use the face mask
to cover your face is very helpful in spreading the virus which was through the air (Hertin 2018).
This helped too much and help in stop the high rate of spread through the people over acting as
carrier of the virus. Such type of strategies and plan helped so much to fight with corona and
these strategies were never been successful without the cooperation of the people.
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