Our project was designed in an integrated way with data provided by the Institution and autonomous research to be able to do something real and not far from our reality, so that it can be put into practice and not just a project to be archived.
We use as methodology of research of literature and researches concerning the subjects approached, as well as documents and data provided by NASA. As a research method, our perceptions about the world and the reality that surrounds us guided us to the theme we chose, the obstacles faced by the population to use a functional and dignified health system at all. Through group conversations and discussions, reports on the subject and analysis of the space-time in which we live, we were able to apprehend the need for an inclusive system to prevent the world from reaching other situations like the one we find ourselves in.
Unfortunately, the human population has been facing the global crisis of COVID-19, a virus that has brought chaos wherever it has gone. The dilemma that our project aims to tackle is about what are the main obstacles that a nation can face to protect its people and how they could overcome these barriers. For a better understanding, the United States will be used as an example. Countries like this had two circumstantial factors that made the situation worse: Social inequality and lack of government assistance.
In countries where health is a commodity, medical care reaches exorbitant values, causing the portion of the population that is financially vulnerable to avoid visits to the doctor. As a result, even with symptoms, many avoided medical care due to fear of cost, directly influencing the increase in positive cases of corona virus. In addition, the part of the population that, even though they were unable to afford health care, had health plans offered by the companies they worked for, ended up losing their jobs, given that this crisis resulted in an increase in the unemployment rate and, thus, the number of those without access to public health is growing.
With uncontrolled dissemination and overcrowded hospitals, the “law of supply and demand” unfortunately comes into action, making even more expensive what, at first, it shouldn't even cost: health.
The universal health system is defended by the WHO to guarantee medical assistance to the world population that covers all socioeconomic classes. Some countries have tried to implement health as a citizen's right, using public money for this purpose, which should be a priority. It is estimated that 20 to 40% of the amounts earmarked for the sector are spent improperly due to lack of administration and that it does not have the due attention that it should.
Of the biggest problems faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the access of the vulnerable population to hospital centers, either due to the high value of the treatments or, in the case of countries that have already implemented the universal system, the precarious public access, the lack of investment in the possibility of increasing social coverage or in the hospital structure itself, it placed a major obstacle for the infected to seek help, causing them to die and / or collaborate in the proliferation of the virus without the certainty of being or not infected.
Therefore, it is necessary to build, to be legislated by each nation, a monitoring and attention system for the population. Health systems must be interconnected with regard to regional populations, that each region has its wholesome network with cross-checking of data at the state and national level where it is possible to know whether there are new endemic diseases or resurgence of others, and be treated in a way that does not curb the entry of this population for fear of expenses that they cannot afford, including medications and extra expenses that in theory would not be covered by the State.
Health should not be a commodity, but a fundamental right of man, therefore, to use taxation and great fortunes as a basis in countries and for poor countries where there is no source of this income, that world solidarity be executed, large companies transnational and multinational use labor or primary resources in its production line, to contribute to a fund where the values can be properly distributed to those who do not have source of maintenance of the health insurance fund and thus avoid both deaths from epidemics how much to avoid future pandemics.
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