Health systems

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[...] etc. Community Services: community nursing communauté d'infirmiers) and health visiting (traitements à domiciles). Hospital Services: Led by 14 Regional Hospital Board (total amount in Wales and England), this part includes Hospital Services of all kinds (from basic care to surgery). Referrals (=prescription de soins hospitaliers particuliers) to hospital and prescription of care depending on General practitioner, they hold an essential role within the system. 1990: Thanks to Margaret Thatcher's call, the NHS and Community Care Act passed into law: As an attempt to address the NHS inefficiency problem, it proposes to establish an internal market. [...]

[...] The COVID 19 crisis shone a light on the health system's inequalities: Health insurance is mostly private: the middle and lower classes cannot afford to pay several thousand dollars a year for their services, or else they go broke. "Failure to pay health care costs is the first cause of individual bankruptcy of the inhabitants". Hospitalization for a patient over 60 is $60k. The United States has been the most affected by the COVID 19 with the largest number of cases and deaths. Donald Trump wants to revoke ObamaCare. In the UK: The British are very attached to the NHS. Useful health care during the COVID 19. Large number of cases and deaths. [...]

[...] The current health systems have some failures and inequalities persist. Inequalities in the US: Not all Americans have full health coverage. For over 70% of the American population, the main form of insurance is the private one. The level of each state, for instance, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which is aimed at children, whose parents have no health care insurance. Many Americans are also insured through their employers. Still many Americans who find themselves without health insurance: They are not yet 65. [...]

[...] He denounces the cruelty of the system and the pauperization of the middle-class. Plan To what extent health systems are unequal not only between countries but also between different people within a country? The history of health systems The Welfare State in the UK: Born of the need to rebuild post World War II Britain and of the generous ideas of Beveridge Report (1942) provide a wide-ranging system of social security fight the 5 "giants evils" Beveridge talked off: Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness. [...]

[...] The growing number of one-parent families In the meantime, in spite of record spending on the NHS, many problems remain: long waiting lists to see a hospital consultant. rocketing deficits. Staff shortages. The health systems have been weakened by the COVID-19 crisis. What is the future of health systems? In the US: March 2020: Families First Coronavirus Response act voted by the Congress to: Provide key nutrition funding for Americans suffering from food insecurity. COVID-19-related family medical and paid sick leave are mandated for employees. Tax credits to reimburse employers for both sick leave and family medical leave are available to Istated limits. [...]