¶ … Along the way, scholarly resources such as books, peer-reviewed journal articles and reputable websites will be used to create or support the opinions or answers given. The three questions that will be answered will include what basic types of healthcare everyone should have access to and why, a choice from thirteen risk factors that impact infectious disease and a recitation of how nurses can play a part in one or more of the millennium development goals (MDG) set forth for global health. While being too loose and generous with what people are entitled to and/or the depth and breadth of what nurses can truly do is a danger, to suggest that neither is worthy of consideration would be less than wise to assert as true.
Healthcare as a Right
The first essay question asks what types and forms of healthcare should be a given and a right to everyone regardless of race, gender, class or background. Before answering this question, there are a number of wrinkles and so forth that have to be taken seriously. First, the healthcare of many countries is in tatters due to ingrained corruption from the government or ingrained bad habits of the people. For example, two thirds of Nigerians drink while working and that is appalling not to mention dangerous and unhealthy on a number of levels. This is an example, albeit extreme, of people that are really causing their own problems and/or a government is doing the problem creating. Of course, dictators and despots like Kim Jong Un (along with his predecessor Kim Jong Il) and Mugabe are more concerned about their own health and well-being than those of the people. Even ostensibly better-off countries India and much of the Middle East are torn apart by things like filthy drinking water and lack of proper sanitation infrastructure such as working toilets and the like (Heinjnen, Rosa, Fuller, Eisenberg & Clasen, 2014).
Another wrinkle already touched on is human behavior leading to health maladies. Indeed, to suggest that this is something foreign to civilized and developed countries like the United States would simply not be true. A good number of the diseases that ravage those in the United States are induced by poor behavior and life choices and it is usually something that happens over years or decades rather than a few days or months. However, the problem is aggravated by a system and a framework where less healthy foods are much more ubiquitous and much cheaper and the education of those that are vulnerable is hit or miss if it exists at all. Even when it does exist, parents and other caretakers are unwilling to take care of themselves, let alone others. However, genetics plays a part as well and some people get sick even with some strong efforts (Collins, Ryan & Truby, 2014).
The deck is further stacked against the poor and the disadvantaged in the form of a healthcare system that becomes more expensive by the day in terms of what it takes to pay for items out of pocket and/or the healthcare insurance premiums that have to be paid to mitigate or limit those costs. While the number of people uninsured in the United States is in the stark minority, it still numbers in the millions of people and the number of bankruptcies and other financial strife (or even death) that is caused in whole or in part by lack of access to money and/or healthcare is quite embarrassing (Zhou, Remsburg, Caufield & Itote, 2012). However, those that would say that the United States and other non-socialized medicine countries should just "spend the money" have to recognize that transfer payments are already a huge part of the United States federal budget and that number will get much bigger even if no upgrades are made to the social and medical safety nets.
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