Usa Health Case Study
The Institute of Medicine reports that America is falling short of its health potential. Identify contributing factors that can explain the US life expectancy ranking as compared to other countries.
The problem in the US is rooted in economics. The “Haves” continue to promote their big businesses by funding our legislators’ campaigns to entrench their for-profit-above-all philosophy. This is a supreme example of social engineering. This schema is what fuels and pervades medical and insurance related business, food production and energy production. At the extreme, people are merely consumers of some product that generates a profit.
The US health system is structured in a way where the “Haves” get good care and the “Haves not” don’t. It is a system that is based on treating, rather than preventing illnesses. Our …show more content…
How are Americans supposed to eat healthy when they don 't have time to cook for themselves? It is no wonder that our nation has the majority of people eating fast food as standard diet. This should be a driving force for food production industries to focus more on quality and impact on the earth and our health, rather than making cheaper, higher calorie, higher sugar processed products.
Politicians talk about the US decreasing its reliance on foreign sources for Energy, but the impact of this plan is never addressed. The reality is that decreasing dependence on foreign oil means increasing dependence on new oil drilling in the US and in places that we have previously deemed protected from the harmful impact of drilling, it also means an increase in coal mining, fracking and other action harmful to our environment and to people’s health.
Education efforts in these areas are often attacked and labeled as some radical agenda, but if we really want our children and grand grandchildren to have better quality lives than ours, we had better re-think our
The problem in the US is rooted in economics. The “Haves” continue to promote their big businesses by funding our legislators’ campaigns to entrench their for-profit-above-all philosophy. This is a supreme example of social engineering. This schema is what fuels and pervades medical and insurance related business, food production and energy production. At the extreme, people are merely consumers of some product that generates a profit.
The US health system is structured in a way where the “Haves” get good care and the “Haves not” don’t. It is a system that is based on treating, rather than preventing illnesses. Our …show more content…
How are Americans supposed to eat healthy when they don 't have time to cook for themselves? It is no wonder that our nation has the majority of people eating fast food as standard diet. This should be a driving force for food production industries to focus more on quality and impact on the earth and our health, rather than making cheaper, higher calorie, higher sugar processed products.
Politicians talk about the US decreasing its reliance on foreign sources for Energy, but the impact of this plan is never addressed. The reality is that decreasing dependence on foreign oil means increasing dependence on new oil drilling in the US and in places that we have previously deemed protected from the harmful impact of drilling, it also means an increase in coal mining, fracking and other action harmful to our environment and to people’s health.
Education efforts in these areas are often attacked and labeled as some radical agenda, but if we really want our children and grand grandchildren to have better quality lives than ours, we had better re-think our