Question

Please discuss in detail the impact of economics on the delivery of healthcare services and how the delivery of those services have changes over the years. Please include all websites used.

Answer 1

Answer:

this can be partly attributed to the fact thcarpoor economic status have a significant impact on the efficient health care in the poor house holds such as low and middle income countries.,the level of the government spending on health is low compared to the other sectors because the expenditure on health care system is increasing day by day due to increasing cost of the health care.

- some of the components are :

• High cost of the drug : today somany new diseases are evolving due to this the value of new drugs are increasing vastly. the private health care hospitals are increasing their cost of care .it changes to main economic burdon the poor people.
• poor financing of health sector : due to the poor financing of health sectors lead to low efficiency in health care.beacause of increasing of diseases make the increased expenditure this can lead to poor financing in health sectors when compared to other sectors .
• high cost of the treatment : now a days the cost of the health care is very high due to increasing need of the health care ( ,some of the factors of poor health is illiteracy ,unhygienic practices ,lack of education ,unemployment ,poor economic status etc) .the poor people cannot offered the money for the treatment ,so it os again economic impact on health care system .
• high disease morbidity : diseases are high in many developing and underdeveloped countries this can lead to high economic burdon on the people to cure their diseases.
• high mortality : due to increased cost of care ,and availability of health care services mainly in rural and remote areas ,health care delivery system not that much improved ,so people in the rural and remote areas are facing so many health care problem ,and mortality due to lack of haelth care facilities .here another important factor is transportation facility ,people who are in remote areas they wont have adequate yransportation facility for seeking of thier health care needs due to this mortality rates are high .and government is not providing adequate facilities to such a people because of low economic status of developing and underdeveloped countries.
• emergence of counterfeit drugs : emergency drugs are cost effective. lack of the emergency drugs lead to morbidiy and mortality of patients are high
• increase in out of the pocket expenditure : due to the high disease freequency in the society ,government some times failed to providing of health care needs to public ,so people are spendin. Out of the pocket expenditure to their health care needs ,so it is also again chages to economic burdon onpeople in society .
• natural calamities : natural outbreaks such as floods ,earth quacks ,tornados ,and other man made disasterssuch as wars ,bomb blast etc have the high impact on the economic status as well as burdon on providing of health care services .

Some of the economic indicators :

• Changes in gross domestic products .
• income and wages.
• consumer price index.
• currency strength
• interest rates .
• corporate profits.
• balance of trades .
• unemployment rate.etc .