...While watching the film “Sick around the World,” I learned that one of the first statements made on the video was extremely true. The statement made was, “other countries do much better than the U.S but spend a lot less money.” There were numerous innovations that impressed me from several different countries. The countries with innovations that stuck out the most were Germany, Japan, and Taiwan. Germany has a market based health system. They have universal health care that covers medical, dental, mental health and even homeopathy. Insurance companies cannot make a profit from insured customers. Therefore, the price for insurance is negotiated between the government and the Insurance provider. Like any other healthcare system there are good and bad parts to Germany’s system. Everyone is covered; the rich has an option to get private insurance. Germans pay premiums to cover insurance called “ICU funds” The over all German health system is one in which the rich pay for the poor. They have the same quality of health care but the co-pay is smaller than the U.S. They also have sickness funds, in which they negotiate with drug companies and medical doctors. The sickness funds cause for much cheaper medicine than in America. The negative side to the German healthcare system is that hospitals and doctors feel very much underpaid. Japans healthcare system includes universal coverage. One thing that caught my attention about this health system is that there are no primary physicians....
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...Sick Around the World What world healthcare system is the most expensive? The U.S. Where does the US Healthcare system rate? 37th in the World England Compare and Contrast the English healthcare system with the US system The citizens won’t see a single medical bill, the hospitals and their employees are owned by the government. Hospitals go against each other to get funding. It’s similar in the fact their is a “family doctor.” What are the advantages of this system over the US system? No medical bills, no medical bankrupcy. Patience can choose what hospital they want to go to. Excellent preventitive medicine. What are the disadvantages of this system? They pay much higher taxes. Takes a while to get hip or heart surgery (waiting list). Japan Compare and Contrast the Japanese healthcare system with the US system Cover everyone and spend half the amount the U.S. does. 80% of hospitals are private buisnesses. There are set prices for everything in hospitals all across Japan. What are the advantages of this system over the US system? Everyone is covered and it is very cheap. There is no gate keeper, no appointment is neccessary so they can go see any specialist they want. Insurance takes care of the bill. What are the disadvantages of this system? The doctors can’t charge what they want which limits the amount of money they can make. 50% of hospitals in financial trouble. Spend too little on medicine which cause this financial trouble. Germany ...
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...Health history for my family lineage Name; Tutor; Course; Institution; Date; Family member | History of disease | Self | Am a diabetes type 2 victim. A disease I inherited from my father. | Siblings | My two siblings, all of them have suffers from hypertension. | Mother | She has high cholesterol and often suffers from heart disease. She inherited heart disease from maternal grandmother. | Father | He has diabetes type 2 and often suffers from hypertension. He quits smoking about ten years. Apart from that he does not suffer from any other ailment | Maternal grandmother | She only suffers from heart disease. | Maternal grandfather | He suffers from irregular heartbeat which he inherited from the maternal great grandfather. | Maternal great-grandmother | He uses to suffer from heart disease since she was two years old. | Maternal great-grandfather | He used to suffer irregular heartbeat. An ailment which my father developed later on. | Paternal grandfather | He is healthy apart from visual disorders because of his advanced age. | Paternal grandmother | She suffers from diabetes type 2, which was inherited by my father. | Paternal great-grandmother | He uses to suffer from diabetes type 2. | Paternal great-grandfather | He used to be very healthy but at his old age, he developed visual disorders. | Aunts | I have three aunts. Two of them suffer from heart disease, one of them from hypertension and the other one suffers from visual disorders a condition she developed...
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...Frontlines documentary Sick Around the World was a clear understanding of why ObamaCare was a great idea of the United States. The video wanted its viewers to think Americas healthcare system at the time was unfit for most of the citizens. The video tied in with our readings on the topic of healthcare among citizens that are wealthy vs. poor. I do agree that people that’s more wealthy aren’t necessary concerned about health care insurance because they have to money to purchase individual health care insurance. Poor people have nothing to worry about because most of them qualify for Medicaid. The problem occurs with the middle class citizens like myself who pay extremely too much for insurance through their work provider for example I have...
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...After watching “Sick Around the World’ and seeing how other countries health care systems operate I’ve come to the conclusion that no health insurance and health care program is perfect. Britain’s healthcare system, their waitlist is getting shorter for surgeries like hip replacements, there’s no medical bankrupt, and there’s excellent preventative medicine. They also have a general practitioner that gives people a medical home and holds down the cost for the healthcare system. In Japan, everyone has to sign up for healthcare and the average premium is $200 a month with your employer paying at least half the cost. If something happens and you lose your job you won’t lose your health insurance. In Japan, every 2 years the Japanese health ministry and physicians come up fix prices for all procedures and drugs. Everyone in Germany is provided healthcare but the rich can opt out and pay privately. German insurance companies also pay for alternative medicine like going to the spa or taking belly dancing lessons. Co pays in Germany are very cheap you only pay $15 every 15 months and pregnant women don’t have to pay anything. Not just co pays for Dr. visits but their co pays for medicine are also very cheap....
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...1919: America’s Determined Fight to Contain, Prevent, and Cure In 1919, more soldiers died from a fatal flu than the number of soldiers who had died in World War I (MacFarlan). After World War I, from 1919 to 1920, a life-threatening flu spread around the United States of America. As the Influenza of 1919 spread across the United States, American people worked hard to contain the flu. Some of these actions to stop of the growth of the influenza were successful, while others were not as successful. The United States worked very hard during the Flu Epidemic of 1919 in order to try to contain the influenza, using both medicinal cures and by changing public health...
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...percentage of sick people there. Africa is known for the sick and unhealthy. Also, the people of Africa can’t afford medicine to be cured as well. With this being said whites are the first priority of the doctors and people I charge if you ask me. Maybe it was the decisions from the beginning to make the Ebola Decease only cure white victims. Before Ebola was in Africa people were Africa to go to Africa due to the sick people. And the unhealthy and dirty look the world was making it to be. In my opinion. The Ebola virus gave the world a more straight forward reason of why not to go to Africa. People already thought that Africans needed help and they count afford medicine for the sick even if it was a little cold or flu. Many individuals including me feel as if they are trying to die down the population of the world. So due to this Ebola Virus some people including me feel as if they were targeted because they were easier to kill off because they are not able to provide there selves with the things the need like medicine. Ebola isn’t a Virus that just came up this virus been around for many years. Ebola been around since 1976 it just came back now as a stronger and more serious problem. There are plenty of drugs that have been made for the Ebola Virus but, none have been approved by the Food And Drug Administration. “More than 10,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone have contracted Ebola since March, according to the World Health Organization...
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...I’m sick of this whole world! I am sick of the glittering blue sea of the Black Sea, I am sick of the barren land, I am sick of living in a constant question of if I would live tomorrow or even if I would survive long enough to see the stars tonight, I am sick of this whole damn war and I am sure as hell that I am disgusted of this godforsaken life in the trenches. I loath this warfare! It is eating away at our days alive. The days are long. Seconds seems like days, minutes seems like weeks, hours like months, days like years; I joined this war because it was for the country because I thought it was to annihilate the Germans that destroyed us in the Franco-Prussia War! I did not sign to this bloody war to spend my life sitting on dirt and muck to rot away as the rats grow fat! It is awfully quite these days. The damned Huns are hushed; as we, Frenchmen and British men act as if they are mute, not even daring to snore while we visit our dreamland at night. It seems as though any sound that disturbs the stillness would cause the gate to purgatory to open unleashing the demons of bloodshed to take us all away to the underworld; one of the demons succeeded in taking one of my friends last week. His name was Albert...
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...afford the necessary treatment that is needed to overall keep these people alive. Tracy Kidder in his book appears to take the side of Farmer, painting a picture to the reader of a man who has done only good in his life and seems to care more for others wellbeing than himself, “I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment.” (Paul Farmer, 24). It is obvious Farmer cares for others but you are only shown and told view points from those who have received his generous care and much of his gifts. At times throughout the book Farmer seems to express his anger at companies here in America claiming that recourses that we have should be put to better use around the world and not fought over due to money and who can pay for what. The market system to him is a serious problem that is cause many people around the world to receive no treatment and all and eventually causing preventable deaths in areas of serious poverty. His health care idea can seem radical at times, some of his ideas simply aren’t possible to accomplish in our day and age. Farmer wrote a book called Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, in the book he speaks and explains more on the subject of the poor in need of care which they aren’t receiving. Farmer tells stories of many different patients which were in more than depressing situations and many do not have happy...
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...The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 is said to be the Mother of all Pandemics. A Pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease. It occurs when a influenza virus emerges and spreads around the world. About one third of the whole world’s population was infected by the epidemic.“All influenza A pandemics since that time have been caused by descendants of the 1918 virus.” (1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics Vol. 12, No. 1, Jan. 2006)The cause of the influenza links to“ avian and swine influenza were unknown.” It has been one of the world’s worst sicknesses recorded by man. There were two waves of the epidemic. The first wave of the sickness started in the spring of 1918 and was mild. The people...
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...my belief everyone should be vaccinated for communicable diseases. It is important for a person to be properly vaccinated because you as a human are very susceptible of getting sick or catching a terrible cold at any time during your life. If you don’t get a vaccine to prevent whatever it is that you’re getting vaccinated for then you are putting yourself and everyone around you into harm of getting sick. Getting vaccinated only prevents your wellness and everyone else’s around you, which is something very important to consider. Almost everyone in the entire world has had a cold or the minor flu. In some cases it isn’t possible to prevent a cold or illness, but it does help to be vaccinated so it stays a common cold and doesn’t turn into something...
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...Catherine McAuley was born in a catholic church. she was developed a carful nursing in early of 19th century. She has a deep concern and the passion for the poor, sick and the woman. The period when the subjection, poverty and the recurring famine in Ireland. The chronic illness and infectious diseases were threating people’s life. She went to the local priest in the catholic church and began working with them to care for the poor and the sick people. She cared for the uneducated women. Maculey was sought to reestablish the nursing services especially for the sick and poor people. In 1798, she developed her knowledge of nursing by nursing the sick family members and the friend, and going out in nursing the sick poor in homes around Dublin. She was educated and cultured woman, her family had a strong medical connection. She has experienced in the medical and scientific knowledge achievements. She brought a broad knowledge...
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...Documentary Assignment: “Sick around the World” Great Britain * Longer life expectancy, lower mortality rate. * NHS( national health services) covers everyone * No premium, no co-pay. * Long wait time to see NHS. * Pay for healthcare on tax revenue so government owns hospitals. * No medical bills, no bankruptcy. * Britts pay higher taxes to cover healthcare. * Elective care faces difficulties. * Reduced waiting list my spending more money. * Patients can choose which hospital to go to. * Rally for governments to privatize medical plans. * Healthcare starts by going to the “gatekeeper”. * GPs are paid fixed amount based on people they have. * World leader in preventive medicine. Japan * No natural resources but 2nd richest country in world. * Covers everyone and spend half as much as united states on healthcare. * Longest healthy life expectancy. * They don’t pay through taxes, government pays for those who are too poor. * 80% of hospitals are private. * Everyone has to sign up for healthcare. * They can see any specialist they want, no appointments necessary. * Japanese patients have longer hospital stays than Americans. * Physicians and health ministry negotiate fixed price for every procedure and drug. (every 2yrs) * Cost 10 dollars to stay in room with 4 people, 90 dollars to stay in private room. * I f you lose your job, you do not lose your health insurance. * Insurance...
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...Topic: Flu shots General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade audience to all get vaccinated for the flu shot Intro [Attention] I. According to the CDC, it is estimated that in the US, on average 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu and more than 200,000 are hospitalized from complications of the seasonal flu. II. As the years go by, we have new disease outbreaks that affect our world. 1. Such as the current Ebola outbreak that according to national geographic could have a total of 1.4 million cases by late January. 2. In order to try to prevent diseases like this, we should take the necessary precautions to have a healthy environment for everyone. III. No one likes being sick and having to miss events of their everyday life, so wouldn’t you want to prevent yourself from getting sick if you could? (Transition: The flu is an annual thing that many people don’t know how serious it could actually be) Body [Need] I. First, I would like to say that the flu is not just a regular cold. A. The flu has cold like symptoms, but it is far more severe. 1. Some of the symptoms are a fever of over 100’, cough and/ or sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches or headaches, chills, fatigue, and the most common symptom in children is nausea. 2. The flu virus is easily contagious. It is spread through the air and passed on through objects that people with the virus touch. 3. According to Kids Health, people carrying the...
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...vaccinations because (1)vaccines are safe and effective (2) you reduce the chance of spreading the disease to family members and the community and (3) you don’t want to pay the price of getting sick. Attention Step Nearly everyone in the U.S. got measles before there was a vaccine, and hundreds died from it each year; today, most doctors have never even seen a case of measles. Like all of you, I am part of the lucky people who have been vaccinated, however, there are many people around the world who are not as fortunate and others who are simply beginning to deny vaccinations. After researching vaccinations, I have become very aware of how much they actually benefit our society. According to the cdc, vaccines given to infants and young children over the past two decades will prevent 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations, and 932,000 deaths over the course of their lifetimes. Vaccines will have saved $300 billion in direct costs, such as medical expenses and a total of more than $1.3 trillion in societal costs over that time, because children who were spared from sometimes-devastating illnesses will...
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