Discuss the common challenges faced in healthcare globally

A quality healthcare is a standout amongst the most critical factors in how people are
aware of their diathesis of lifestyle. Apart from the economy, healthcare is the main
political issues in most countries. The healthcare services are part of national identity in
some countries. The healthcare in globally are confronting comparable challenges. From
the 2015 global healthcare sector outlook overview, the spending of global healthcare is
expected to grow at 5.2% annually to 2018 and the global healthcare spend is represented
10.6% of the GDP. The healthcares spend of countries in Middle East and Africa is
expected to grow at 8.7% and it is the highest growth of healthcare spending among Latin
America, North America Western Europe and Asia. (OBE, 2015)

Australia

The position of Australia’s healthcare is globalization, it is because the Australian has the
continuing high average life expectancy and low rate of new born child mortality. (ABS,
2006)These advances are now being threatened as their healthcare is expanded by an
aging population; the burden of chronic disease is getting growth, and the increasingly
obsolete organisation of the health services. The healthcare is commonly been agreed to
focus on precaution and better management of chronic disease. (DoHA, 2006)

The challenge that faced by Australia in their healthcare is changing demography and
illness patterns. The aging population in Australia challenges the capacity of healthcare
to retain health and welfare, control critical and continuing disease, and offer help for the
fragile and disabled. The average life expectancy of Australian is expected live up to
73 years of healthy life. Actual life expectancy is estimated to be 10 years longer, but this
long life is often companioned by enhancing disability from chronic diseases. (AIHW,
2006) In 2013, 14% of the Australia populations were aged 65. It is expected to increase
to 21% of the population are aged 65 by 2053. Australia government has been
encouraged to solve the rising budgetary burden via efficiency profit and give allowance
to private healthcare. The individual with higher income will shift to the private
healthcare. (J, 2016)
The issues in the medical research sector faced by Australia as the medical errors that
occur in Australia have spent over possibly $2 billion annually. From the Australian
Health Care Study, they found that the medical errors that occur were possibly avoidable.
(Richardson J, 2007) They do not that whether there is any improvement in the quality
and safety activity within a 10 years period. There is insignificance information at
province or country level, in the public or private sector, or for in-hospital or out-of-
hospital care. Australia has a long history of research healthcare discovery. However,
Australia is short of basic structures and cross-partner interfaces that are required to
coordinate national health and health research plans, an arrangement of medical study
with national health precedence and vital goals in the domination of rare research funds.

In Australia, there is the health inequality and concerns with equity among the
population. In spite of the large enrichment in the average life expectancy complied in
recent 10 years, health have not been simultaneously shared through the Australian
population. They are always said that women do better than men; the individuals that are
well educated do better than the people who living in the rural area that not well educated
and unemployed. For example, the average of Indigenous Australians living is
practically 20 years less than other Australians. This is also a major difference of
treatment in the healthcare treatment. The study from Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare state that if the mortality rate of the entire Australian population has the same
and it is the disadvantage for the socioeconomic among the population, it will be a
reduction of more than 23 000 deaths between 1998 to 2000.

United States

There are three of the most difficult challenges confronting health care in the United
States today are the increasing cost of healthcare, insignificance of primary care
professionals, and distinct international criterion on healthcare. These challenges stay
unsolved and result to lower validity and nature of the US healthcare system.

The increasing cost of healthcare is the major challenges that faced in healthcare
globally same as United States. The increasing cost of healthcare is the major issue that is
still to be validly solved. The cost of healthcare has kept on increasing throughout the
years. The rising costs do not certainly conform to higher quality.

The challenges that faced by United States is deficiency of essential care professionals.
The lack of essential care professionals is mostly because of the small number of new
doctors and nurses adequate qualified to displace retiring doctors and nurses. This
deficiency can cause issues in the openness of health care. Receptiveness relies upon
availability of these professionals. The deficiency of medical professionals can prompt
declining quality and validness of the health care system.

The similar challenges that faced are distinctive international criterion between every
country so do United States. In the different nation, they have the healthcare policies,
criterion and procedures that are not alike to each other. This different impacts the health
of people in the US. For instance, poorer healthcare criterions in countries like Mexico
make it harder for the US and other countries to address pandemics including Mexico.
The US and other propelled countries required to spend more for their own conservancy
in light of the lower healthcare criterion of other countries. (JOHANSEN, 2017)

China
There are some challenges in healthcare that faced by China in primary healthcare and
public healthcare. China’s government subsidies are still low for healthcare. China’s
total health expenditure has increase to 2.785 trillion yuan in 2012 and has a net rising of
350 billion yuan in 2011. The expenditure of healthcare in China have been increase to 8%
speedy than the increase in GDP at the annual rate of 17.0% over the past 20 years. The
total profit of all public healthcares is 1.16 trillion yuan at the end of 2011, 90.76% of the
profit were contributed by sales of services and medicines. The government subsidies in
healthcare industries are occupied for exclusively 9.24%. Doctors have to depend on their
own to earn money and they have no courage to control the expenses, this may result to a
speedy rising in health expenditure. This may lead to the increasing of cost in healthcare.
(Refer to Appendix 1)
The challenges that faced by China’s healthcare is population aging and non-
communicable chronically illness that have the similar challenges toward globally.
Recently, China’s has the speedy aging population. From the research, people that aged
more than 60 years will occupy 25% of total population in the year of 2035. China’s
population ageing problem is even more compound than other countries. China’s city
population was at least 680 million people compare to its rural residents for January 2012.
The non- communicable chronic illness are the number one health treat in China that
dedicating to 70% of its total illness burden and 80% of the country’s 10.3 million deaths
annually. (Refer to Appendix 2)

China has faced the no gate-keeping role in their healthcare sector. Besides these society
problems, China has not yet enhanced the circumstances which the huge hospitals were
extremely crowded. The number of people that visit to the tertiary hospitals has increased
significantly while the numbers of people that visit to the primary-level hospitals are
basically at the time of commemoration for the past 7 years. The assignation of
healthcare professionals is also tend to the city areas that rural areas have lesser
concentration of healthcare professionals compared with city areas in 2011. The currently
information recommend that essential healthcare equipments have to act as a gate-
keeping role. (Changjiao Sun, 2014)
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Appendix 1

Appendix 2
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