Healthcare approaches - CUBA, UK, INDIA AND FRANCE
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- Healthcare approaches
- France
- You pay for treatment on the spot and are reimbursed according to tax contributions.
- Pay compulsory health insurance- 0.75% of earning
- employers contribute 12.8% of salary
- Insurance and social security
- poorest - under 66000 euros are covered by state
- 3 doctors per 1000
- choice of doctor
- fewer people per doctor
- UK
- NHS
- all citizens have equal access to healthcare , the system is financed by national taxation
- 1 doctor per 434
- spending per person - over $3000
- difficult to control costs and is at mercy of economic fluctuation and politics
- rural and urban patients have the same access
- Cuba
- Socialised
- It aims to provide more mobile medical assistance to reduce unnecessary use of hospital beds.Doctors are state employed.
- Cuba trains doctors for free and often exports them - 21 medical schools
- 11 million population - 30,000 doctors and 10,000 dentists
- second highest life expectancy in the Caribbean
- mobile medical assistance prevents less serious cases taking up room in hospitals
- India
- Emergent
- own responsibility
- the state has minimal involvement and the doctors are paid directly
- most hospitals are in cities (500 : 1)
- rural areas lack clinics (700 : 1)
- National gov. spending on healthcare is low - under 2%
- World Bank helps to fund provision of services
- Mobile health workers give vaccination and advice
- France
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