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Current
State of Affairs
POSITIVE
- Government health care
ensures all people have access to some type of service.
- There are many research
institutes with sophisticate technology to develop medicines
to help control and combat diseases.
- The G-7 countries have
fiscal and technological resources to help combat resources.
- The World Health Organization
monitors health situations around the world
NEGATIVE
- increase in smog can cause
heart attacks and slow the growth of lung function in children
- increase in temperature
can cause new diseases such as malaria
- government run health
care systems rely to heavily on equity and during times of hardship
result in cutbacks
- the poor countries and
the people of third world countries do not have access to medical
treatments and they do not have the money to afford the medical
treatments
INTERESTING
- Some provinces and states
have developed disease management programs and the International
Health organization is monitoring countries.
- The International Olympic
Committee feels that genetic altering will be an issue for the
Summer Olympics in the year 2008. They are not sure how they
will detect this among the athletes.
- Romanow challenged those
advocating for user fees, medical savings accounts, de-listing
services, and privatization to come forward with evidence to
prove that these approaches would improve and strengthen health
care. There is no evidence to prove that these solutions will
deliver better or cheaper care or improve access.
Blasts
from the Past
Prior to the Middle Ages, medicine
was practice without any specialization. During the Middle Ages,
medical institutions evolved and began to specialize in the treatment
of disease. State-salaried doctor and the public health board
emerged during this period.
Change of Life styles have affected
our health. As technology evolved, it diminished our need to be
food gathers. Due to such high tech inventions such as the T.V.
and the computer, adolescents spend less time doing physical activity
and more time in a seat playing computer games and watching T.V.
which is leading to an increase in obesity. Due to the hectic
schedules of working parents, the eating habits of people have
change drastically. Youth are developing new diseases or adult
diseases such as type 2 diabetes
- Environmental conditions are
creating health issues. - Poor air quality and smog are causing
respiratory problems.
- Disease tended to be isolated
to countries. Due to globalization diseases can travel from
country to country easier.
- In the 1941 penicillin was developed
which fought infections and aided in prolonging life.
- Open heart surgery becomes possible
and human organ transplants begin in 1950.
- In 1953 the double-helix of
the DNA molecule explains how genetic information can be stored
and how chromosomes duplicate and divide.
- In Ontario people paid for their
own health care until 1964 when the OHIP was introduced.
- The ethical standards of the
doctors and medical researchers which much stricter. Due to
advocacy, the standards are relaxing.
- In 1997 Dolly the sheep was
introduced to the world as the first cloned animal.
Future
World
1. How far down the road will be go with
genetic manipulation and human cloning? Scientists have said that
they will deliver a cloned baby within the next two years. It
will take at least a thousand cases before one little baby is
born. Is this right? Whose role is it to stop this? Should we
have international policies?
2. As diseases are spreading quickly and more are emerging, whose
role and responsibility is it to combat disease. Should we focus
on Canada only, or do we have an obligation to serve the world?
3. In Canada, all people have a right to equal access to health
care. The costs of medical health care are increasing. During
the 60’s and 70’s, health care involved hospitals
and doctors. However, according to Romanow’s report, people
have expanded health care to include long-term care and pharmacy
needs. How are we going to pay for the increase costs and for
extra costs? In Canada, is our health care system sustainable?
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