Health and Exercise

The expression health-care is the provision of medical services plus the general prevention and management of illness using paid medical resources. However, The World Health Organization believes the meaning should also incorporate all related industries and be a service available to everyone irrespective of who they, which means people as well as whole groups of people. Any collective group of medical professionals and services dedicated to providing this would be termed a healthcare system.

The English speaking world used to call this subject just medicine or refer to it the health sector which basically meant the same but it was before the term healthcare was coined. Most developed and even developing nations have a system of health care for all to cater for those who cannot pay. Of course the first country wide healthcare service begun 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 World Health Organization consider the second best healthcare system in the world. Canada and Australia have both started similar systems and have been running since almost twenty and the 1970’s respectively both going by the name of Medicare. These systems are almost opposite to the systems currently provided in American and South Africa although there are huge changes taking place in the system used by South Africa. healthcare professionals are dedicated to preventing illness and disease primarily, but also to treat and protect the long term health of their patients.

Worldwide, over recent decades, there has been a huge increase in the amount of money spent on health care and it is now one of the fastest growing sectors in every developed country with an average cost of 10 percent of the gross domestic product. America has seen some of the biggest rises and the figures in 2006 are anticipated to be the same as 2003 with over 15 percent of GDP – it is presently the biggest in the world but the increase by 2016 is anticipated to be almost 20 percent.

This is causing problems for large numbers of Americans with one hundred eighty million currently seeking adequate health care provision and it is also their single biggest worry. The costs of health care in The United States have risen so much that General Motors had considered filing bankruptcy due to the increasing health care costs wearing down its auto manufacturing division. 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.

Workers in The United States place this as their number one priority when looking for a prospective employer and often will move to a lower paid position just to better their medical care. Perhaps it is time health care 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 healthcare system which is becoming a international issue.

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