Be Healthy

Healthcare is the general term used for the entire sphere of prevention, intervention and cure of illness and disease using the services of medical professionals and resources. Nevertheless, The World Health Organization believes the meaning should also incorporate all associated industries and be a service available to everyone irrespective of who they, which means individuals as well as whole groups of people. The organized provision of such services may constitute a healthcare system.

Before the expression health-care became commonplace, English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention of illness and disease. Around the world today, most countries have a system in place to ensure that everyone receives health care irrespective of their social standing or financial situation. Of course the first country wide healthcare service started in the UK in 1948 and was called The National Health Service being the first to be organized and funded by the government.

In Italy, they have a system that works by making everyone pay into a government funded insurance scheme which The WHO consider the second best healthcare system in the world. Two other systems like that in Italy, both using the name Medicare, one in Australia and the other in Canada were begun between the late 1960’s and the early 1980’s. These systems are almost opposite to the systems presently provided in American and South Africa although there are huge changes taking place in the system used by South Africa. A healthcare professional is someone who dedicates their skills to the prevention, intervention and aftercare of disease and illnesses with the intention to preserve and protect life and better the lives of the disabled or infirm.

The health care industry is one of the world’s biggest and fastest-growing industries generally going through at least 10 percent of gross domestic product of most developed countries, healthcare can form an enormous part of a country’s economy. The United States has seen some of the largest rises and the figures in 2006 are anticipated to be the same as 2003 with over 15 percent of GDP - it is presently the largest in the world but the increase by 2016 is expected to be almost twenty percent.

This is causing problems for large numbers of Americans with 180 million presently seeking adequate healthcare provision and it is also their single biggest worry. A issue which came to a head when General Motors was seriously looking at bankruptcy over the strain its health car program was putting on the company. Luckily it didn’t happen after some concessions and compromises made with the unions but it does show how something like this can have an effect on even the biggest of companies.

Health care has become an extremely important issue to Americans one which employers must address to a work force which demands better healthcare benefits. Maybe it is time healthcare was looked at in a different way and perhaps called health preservation with an accent on fitness and health to ease the need for a top heavy health care system which is becoming a worldwide issue.