English week 7 by Azra https://padlet.com/azrad/christinespadlet Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2021-02-19 12:13:22 UTC 2022-06-03 07:35:02 UTC hello@padlet.com U.S. Health care from a Global perspective christinenaglestad https://padlet.com/azrad/christinespadlet/wish/1218595531 The US is spending more money (almost twice as much) on health care than 10 other high-income countries, but statistics show that they have the  lowest life expectancy and highest suicide rates compared to the other high-income countries. How is this possible? 
Well, if we look at the total of per-capita spending, we see that the US has the highest number of private spending: "At $4,092 per capita, U.S. private spending is more than five times higher than Canada, the second-highest spender. In Sweden and Norway, private spending made up less than $100 per capita. As a share of total spending, private spending is much larger in the U.S. (40%) than in any other country (0.3%–15%). The average U.S. resident paid $1,122 out-of-pocket for health care, which includes expenses like copayments for doctor’s visits and prescription drugs or health insurance deductibles. Only the Swiss pay more; residents of France and New Zealand pay less than half of what Americans spend."
When people have to pay more out of their own pockets, and live in a country where most of the health care they can get is more expensive than it is  in the other peers, many people will (as the statistics show) struggle with their finance. The fact that they have a relatively higher chronic disease burden does not exactly help either. 

Source:
Tikkaen, R. & Abrams, M.K. (2020, Jan 30th). 

U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2019: Higher Spending, Worse Outcomes?. Retrieved from

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2019



]]> 2021-02-19 12:17:03 UTC https://padlet.com/azrad/christinespadlet/wish/1218595531 How to make it better: christinenaglestad https://padlet.com/azrad/christinespadlet/wish/1218771302 1. Reduce the health care costs.
2. Start addressing risk factors for, and better management of, chronic conditions. 
3. Use effective care and discourage less-effective care thru more education on both doctors and the patients behalf. ]]> 2021-02-19 13:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/azrad/christinespadlet/wish/1218771302