Health Care Experirnce
Health Care Experience
HCS/212
3/25/2013
The Health care system in the United States is not perfect but the Government and its leaders try to make sure laws instated. “The United States is the only industrialized democracy that doesn’t provide health care for all its citizens”. After reading chapter one looking back from when the health care system was then to now have really improve in terms of technology and the way they have different diseases under controlled. “In the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century, the most critical health problems were related to contaminated food and water, inadequate housing, and sewage disposal”. According to Stanfield, P.S., Cross, N., & Hui, Y.H. (2009), the most important factor in the decline in mortality during the twentieth century was essential hygiene, supported by home and workplace improvements and attempts to improve the environment. Better hygiene accounts for approximately one-fifth of the reduction in mortality. Improved nutrition also contributed to the falling death rate by increasing resistance to diseases.
The information that I have found applicable to my health professional within the health care are “The arrival of antibiotics in the 1940s signaled the end of the dominance of acute infectious disease and the ascendancy of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer as the conditions that account for two-thirds of the deaths in this country”.” Other conditions that significantly affect the quality of life are arthritis, arteriosclerosis, and blindness”. All these disease have been around for years and now that there are medication to help control the disease there are problem. People need health insurance because is not free. People of all ages have to go to the doctor and is not able to go because they are not able to let them in.
I have work in the health care field for 10 years and I have seen the changes from then to now. I have seen how the
HCS/212
3/25/2013
The Health care system in the United States is not perfect but the Government and its leaders try to make sure laws instated. “The United States is the only industrialized democracy that doesn’t provide health care for all its citizens”. After reading chapter one looking back from when the health care system was then to now have really improve in terms of technology and the way they have different diseases under controlled. “In the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century, the most critical health problems were related to contaminated food and water, inadequate housing, and sewage disposal”. According to Stanfield, P.S., Cross, N., & Hui, Y.H. (2009), the most important factor in the decline in mortality during the twentieth century was essential hygiene, supported by home and workplace improvements and attempts to improve the environment. Better hygiene accounts for approximately one-fifth of the reduction in mortality. Improved nutrition also contributed to the falling death rate by increasing resistance to diseases.
The information that I have found applicable to my health professional within the health care are “The arrival of antibiotics in the 1940s signaled the end of the dominance of acute infectious disease and the ascendancy of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer as the conditions that account for two-thirds of the deaths in this country”.” Other conditions that significantly affect the quality of life are arthritis, arteriosclerosis, and blindness”. All these disease have been around for years and now that there are medication to help control the disease there are problem. People need health insurance because is not free. People of all ages have to go to the doctor and is not able to go because they are not able to let them in.
I have work in the health care field for 10 years and I have seen the changes from then to now. I have seen how the