Health care and health service priorities are complex - particularly at the global level. Different countries and different communities (national and international) have different resources, different political systems, and different priorities. Which are the most important?
This challenging question was apparently asked 5 years ago, but is even more topical today.
Financial, economic and physical resources are finite, so how can patients, national governments and private health and medical insurers continue without insurance premiums increasing continuously?
The gap where patients pay for the difference between the actual cost and the cover by the national health plan, if it exists, and the health insurer, seems to be increasing dramatically over time.
Managing health and medical costs is one of the most important decisions for national/regional/state/city governments everywhere, along with education and retirement pensions.
Global warming, climate change and environmental degradation are national and international challenges.
Although it is unnerving for me, the neo-liberalist lens seems fixed right now. Therefore, to advanced public health playing the game means creating partnerships - philanthropists and tax credits for big business. Eventually those partnerships will turn to a sense of community and a refocus on the priority - the people.
Natasha - do not feel unnerving about your response. I'm quite comfortable with your cyclical sense of 'what comes around goes around'. Community is king - as are the people. Business etc is nothing without partnership.
Because current health policies are more oriented on social factors, especially to reduce inequities in health status within and between countries, the aim should be to move all stakeholders from health protection to health promotion, from legal obligation to personal commitment, intensified collective action and the expansion of successful approaches to overcome multiple challenges such as ignorance and complacency. Health services should be reoriented (one of the priorities), since the sources of pressure on welfare states becomes domestic, stemming from the ageing of the population, changes in the family structure and technologically induced change in work practices, careers and ensuing social risk.
This challenging question was apparently asked 5 years ago, but is even more topical today.
Financial, economic and physical resources are finite, so how can patients, national governments and private health and medical insurers continue without insurance premiums increasing continuously?
The gap where patients pay for the difference between the actual cost and the cover by the national health plan, if it exists, and the health insurer, seems to be increasing dramatically over time.
Managing health and medical costs is one of the most important decisions for national/regional/state/city governments everywhere, along with education and retirement pensions.
Global warming, climate change and environmental degradation are national and international challenges.
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