Health Care

Everybody wants to live forever. But unfortunately science can't make that happen YET. So for now we're just trying to live as long as we could. And why would we want to prolong our life? To be with your family and friends? To experience all walks of life? To avoid death as long as possible? Well, those are a few of many many reasons why humans would want to have a long life. But the question is how? *hint: the answer is somewhere in the title.

Health care is a very important factor in determining how long a person can live. For anyone who doesn't know what it is, health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings. So the idea is that life expectancy of a person is determine by what kind of health care he or she is receiving from the government. So the better the health care system of a country is, the longer the people can live.

Thankfully, my friend Thien have created a Prezi presentation about the types of health care systems in the world and issues that they are having. That means less words you'll have to read. Yay Thien!!!


Although there are many problems relating to a country's health care system, I primarily focus on three things: the quality, the cost, and the waiting time. These three factors determine how good a health care system is.

Living in Vietnam, a developing country, i got to witness how quality, cost, and waiting time heavily affect my country's health care system. Unlicensed doctors, careless procedures, high cost, shocking amount of patients... there are many factors that are dragging Vietnam's health care system down. And it's not like this is a new thing. Poor health care system have been around for years, but the government still haven't been able to solve this problem yet. Mainly it's because of lack of funds, facilities, trained professionals, and conscience of people.

So how can issues regarding health care system be solve? For one thing, the government need to work on improving their health care system, increasing the quality while also making it available for everyone. But this isn't just a one side thing. The people have to help too. I have seen how misbehaving individuals can affect the quality of health care of hospitals and therefore making it hard for medical treatments to be make. So people have to improve the way they are behaving so that it would not affect the health care procedures of medical centers.

Solving health care problems is not easy. But if the government and the people all working together to improve the country's health care system, it would result in a huge benefit not only for our lives, but also the lives of society's future generations.