Comparison of Healthcare Systems of India and Senegal

Healthcare Systems Across the World

For This Portion Of Your Project You Will Write a Two To Three Page Paper To Describe, Compare And Contrast The Following Information Relating To The Two Countries You Choose.

A country’s healthcare system is influenced by several factors such as the demographics, economics, lifestyle, culture, values and the social determinants. Health inequities are prevalent in many developing countries due to its strong impact on the lifestyle of the people, which affects the healthcare systems. A person’s monetary income affects their healthcare accessibility and the government’s policy and decision making skills plays an important part in the development of health care systems.

The health systems of every country differs in terms of the government, the target population, economic development and the healthcare management (World Health Organization, 2019). Countries like Australia, Canada, Kuwait, Brazil, Bahrain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain and few other countries has a universal government funded health system. Countries like Albania, Belgium, Iran, Japan, Czech Republic, France and United Arab Emirates has a universal public insurance system. Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Germany, Israel, Mexico and Turkey has a universal public-private insurance system. Countries with universal private health insurance system include Liechtenstein, Netherlands and Switzerland, and countries like Egypt, India, Jordan, Indonesia, United States and Ethiopia has a non-universal insurance system (Who.int, 2019).

The health care system in India is a non-universal insurance system in which a part of the population has a private healthcare insurance, few are eligible for subsidiary public health care and the others are not provided any healthcare insurance. In India, the state government is responsible for the provisions of healthcare and not the central government. The primary duties of the governing body is to raise the standard of the nutrition and living, including the improvement of public health. The parliament of India has endorsed many policies and legislations for the welfare of the country and one of them was National Health Policy in 1983. It was updated in 2002 and then later in 2017, which mentioned the issue of increasing non-communicable diseases, planning of strong and efficient healthcare system with a sustainable expenditure and a rapidly growing economy to enable fiscal capacity. In 2018, a government funded project known as Ayushman Bharat was launched for providing health insurance to the public. The total expenditure by the government was 3.89% for healthcare in the year 2015 (Patel et al., 2017).

The healthcare system of Senegal is divided into three parts such as central, regional and peripheral level. The central level has the ministerial office and the related branches, the regional level is also known as the regional level because the administrative level follows the concerns related to healthcare and the peripheral level has districts with one health center and other smaller centers, so it is known as the health district. The national health system has regional hospitals, district health centers and health posts. The rural areas has been provided health care services known as health centers, health posts and health points the chronological order of importance. The common barriers found in this healthcare system is the lack of awareness, poor communication, decreasing number of health care workers and sociopolitical barriers that reduces the efficiency of Senegal’s healthcare system (Nagai et al., 2017).

A healthcare system is a framework of processes that ensures financial, organizational and efficient healthcare facilities to the population of any country, depending on the capacity of the government.

References

Nagai, M., Fujita, N., Diouf, I. S., & Salla, M. (2017). Retention of qualified healthcare workers in rural Senegal: lessons learned from a qualitative study. Rural & Remote Health, 17(3).

Patel, V., Parikh, R., Nandraj, S., Balasubramaniam, P., Narayan, K., Paul, V. K., ... & Reddy, K. S. (2015). Assuring health coverage for all in India. The Lancet, 386(10011), 2422-2435.

Who.int. (2019). WHO | WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS). Retrieved 6 January 2020, from https://www.who.int/whosis/en/

World Health Organization. (2019). World Health Statistics 2019: Monitoring health for the SDGs. Retrieved 6 January 2020, from https://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/2019/en/