Concept Paper: Healthcare System in Trinidad and Tobago Analysis

This report analyzes the healthcare system in Trinidad and Tobago, focusing on its impact on the population in terms of cost, quality, and access to care. It defines the healthcare system and highlights the two-tier system in Trinidad, where both public and private organizations operate. The report identifies overcrowding and lack of resources in hospitals as key problems, particularly affecting vulnerable populations. It examines health promotion theories and practices, and incorporates data to compare Trinidad's healthcare system with others. The objectives include assessing the impact on vulnerable populations, women's and maternal health, disease management, health promotion, and behavioral factors. The report concludes by emphasizing the need for government programs and interventions to improve hospital throughput and address overcrowding, ultimately aiming to enhance healthcare services for all residents. The paper references various sources including books and journals to support its findings.

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Table of Contents
Title: “To analyse the healthcare system within Trinidad and its impact on people in terms of
cost, quality and access to care”......................................................................................................1
Statement of problem..................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

Title: “To analyse the healthcare system within Trinidad and its impact on
people in terms of cost, quality and access to care”.
Healthcare system can be defined as the organisation of people or institutions, that are
established to deliver healthcare services. They mainly work to promote, maintain or restore
health of individuals by catering their needs. In context with Trinidad and Tobago, here both
public and private organisations operates within a two-tier healthcare system (Altieri, 2018).
Here, The Ministry of Health performs entire responsibilities to ensure that healthcare system is
properly run. It sets policies, targets and goals for delivering best services to people. It also
provides sufficient resources to Regional Health Authorities for financing their operations. The
present paper showcases healthcare system within respective country and its impact on
vulnerable population. For this purpose, theory and some practices of health promotion are
evaluated. Furthermore, data and statistics are incorporated to make a comparison between
healthcare system of different countries also.
Statement of problem
Due to overcrowding and lack of resources within hospitals, health promoters of Trinidad
and Tobago fail to deliver effective healthcare services to people (Peters and Youssef, 2016). It
has been observed in one of the healthcare institutions of respective country San Fernando
General Hospital, that they have to discharge patients early due to high number of admissions.
This would directly impact on vulnerable people where people belong to rich class easily get
good services. The present study mainly examine this throughput as well as challenges faced by
people and hospitals in promoting good health (World Health Organization, 2017). In order to
ensure optimum throughput in hospitals some interventions are highlighted which would help in
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reducing the overcrowding such institutions of Trinidad and Tobago. For this purpose, the main
objectives which are outlined in given paper are given as below:-
 Impact of healthcare system on vulnerable population of Trinidad.
 Women's health and maternal child health disease management of communicable and
non-communicable diseases.
 Theory and practices of health promotion.
 Behavioural and lifestyle factors which affect health and illness
 Comparison of health system of Trinidad and other countries on the basis of statistical
data
Thus, by addressing the above mentioned objectives, issues related to inefficient
healthcare system within Trinidad can be analysed (Hoque and Sorwar, 2017). This would help
in identifying strategies and policies by which necessary changes can be incorporated into
healthcare system of respective country.
CONCLUSION
For promoting healthcare care services it is essential for government of a country to run
various programmes. They must ensure that hospitals or healthcare institutions must run properly
so that needs of vulnerable people, including children, women and mentally or physically ill
persons can be met. The authorities and Health Ministry of nations must do proper negotiations
with services providers related to salary and allowances. This would help in getting their
contribution in delivering best services to patients, for recovering their health in proper manner.
In context with Trinidad, here main problem is associated with overcrowding in a public health
institution. Therefore, by undertaking effective strategies like throughput intervention, healthcare
organisations can improve their services and reduce issues related to overcrowding.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Altieri, M. A. (2018). Agroecology: the science of sustainable agriculture. CRC Press.
Hoque, R., & Sorwar, G. (2017). Understanding factors influencing the adoption of mHealth by
the elderly: An extension of the UTAUT model. International journal of medical
informatics. 101. 75-84.
Peters, D., & Youssef, F. F. (2016). Public trust in the healthcare system in a developing
country. The International journal of health planning and management. 31(2). 227-241.
World Health Organization. (2017). Global costs of unaddressed hearing loss and cost-
effectiveness of interventions: a WHO report, 2017. World Health Organization.
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