In most parts of the world one thing that’s common across the board for every country is that they always have a health care crisis.
My definition of crisis comes from Wikipedia’s definition of crisis and tend to take the meaning of “testing time”.
From the view, East or west, first world or third world, almost all the countries are facing some sort of health care crisis and governments, businesses, Not-for-profit organizations, individuals are all involved in working on a solution.
For example, to name a few crisis’ in brewing in coutries, here is a breif list.
- In America – 46 million(about 1/6th) of the population is uninsured, with the highest spending in health-care as % of GDP(see image) and poor adoption of IT in health care.
- In Canada (where I live), where its public health care, though most of the population thinks that we have the best health care the crisis is in supply of capacity and demand, efficiency of patient care, which results in a some unacceptable level of wait times for care
- In India, where I grew up, the crisis is totally different as Health Insurance is not prevalent, affordable health care for Indian population is an oxymoron, big gap in health care infrastructure and the list goes on
- In UK and other European nations, I would presume they are dealing with capacity and efficiency issues and its a learning curve that I have to take to understand more in detail on the health care crisis in Europe
In this blog I attempt to look at various solutions that are being proposed or worked at either by government, not-for-profit organizations or private enterprises towards continuous improvement in health care delivery across the world.
Stay tuned for more!
Thanks,
Saravana Rajan 