Introduction:
Public health as an approach to treat, prevent and establish a code and harmony in developing and managing healthcare facilities in every county is a very important approach, especially in cases where multiple tags or labels are given to the developing low-income, highly indebted, demographically developing, lower economic, or third-world war countries. This categorization is given to the countries to have a basic knowledge or understanding about the people who deserve support in the quality of life, health care, food, education, etc. So the approach of public health altogether became an organized effort of the people to develop a healthier community. To achieve this, a revolution of knowledge, medicine, and spreading awareness in health care began to be successfully implemented in the fifteenth century, and many public health initiatives were begun that shaped the philosophy of modern health. The well-being of humans paved the way for the beginning of a developing nation, which later became an integral part of many developed and developing countries worldwide.
How Is Better Health Care Provided?
The improvement of better health care starts with reaching out to people. Healthcare in developed countries involves more than just the patient and the doctors. Still, it is a team effort involving people with multiple fields of work, like doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, laboratory technicians, microbiologists, etc., to maintain health and prevent injury, illness, and death rates. The public health schemes in developed countries provide patients with health care services, health education programs, health care insurance policies, etc., to reach out to the people and are mainly concentrated on maintaining and protecting health. The community healthcare system in developed countries is provided as a holistic approach with a healthcare team providing healthcare to the community. The major difference in healthcare in developed and developing countries is the availability of resources, infrastructure, money, education, material, human resources, etc. Every country in the world has a healthcare system of its own.
In contrast, some are easier to reach. The others can be quite difficult to approach. The sources of healthcare in developed countries are:
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Health Care Infrastructure: One of the major sources of development seen by the patient or health sector is healthcare infrastructure. It is critical for the patient needing treatment to be in a hygienic and sterile environment, which developed countries easily provide in the form of clean beds, hospitals, toilets, and so on, not only to help but also to prevent the disease from progressing or worsening.
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Healthcare Providers: Medicine is a holistic approach; well-trained doctors, nurses, technicians, pharmacists, and so on are all easily available under one roof, owing primarily to financial development as countries can provide a higher quality of healthcare workers and health itself.
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Financial Resources: The availability of finance needed for healthcare in developed countries is mostly covered by the health insurance policies provided by the government, where the government takes in all the health expenses covered. This provides an easy approach for people to reach for healthcare.
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Material Availability: In developed countries, there is always a better approach to health and availability of materials, surgical equipment, or medicine at a lesser cost.
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Post-Operative Care and Rehabilitation Facilities: Good postoperative and follow-up care is provided to the patients due to the efficacy of an easy healthcare system.
What Are the Developed Countries?
Out of all the countries in the world, a few countries come under the creamy layer of the world as developed countries, and these countries are called so as they are developed in all the ways like financial growth, education, development in infrastructure, etc. The developed countries are the United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates. The countries providing the best health care in the world are South Korea, Taiwan, Denmark, Austria, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
What Are the Global Health Initiatives?
The health initiatives taken to eradicate or spread awareness of particular diseases that are followed globally by the World Health Organization to reach out to all the areas are:
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), tuberculosis, malaria vaccine programs, maternal and neonatal healthcare, tobacco usage, human resources, nutrition, health promotion, and newer diseases. The World Health Organization funds these initiatives through the World Bank, which is done to have control over the existing and newly emerging health conditions and also for the eradication of diseases which causes severe drawbacks in the lifestyle of the population.
What Were the Early and Current Attempts Taken in Developing Public Health?
In the constantly changing world, there is a tremendous change in the healthcare sector. Over the years, a world health report in 2008 provided the healthcare system that changed as "primary health care - now more than ever." This talks about the early requirements needed in healthcare compared to today's, and they are:
The early attempts of public health are :
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Supply of essential drugs.
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Mother and child health care.
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Locally spreading diseases.
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Hygiene and health awareness.
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Community volunteering.
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Management of growth and development.
But in today's scenario, the developing nations currently concentrate on the following:
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Social health promotion and protection.
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Health to everyone.
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Spreading awareness of both risk and diseases.
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Setting up multiple health systems.
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Community-driven health policies.
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Guiding the public to grow on health resources.
Infectious Disease Control
Measles and polio have been effectively controlled worldwide, with smallpox eradicated in 1980. Progress in understanding cholera and meningitis may lead to their control. AIDS cases and deaths declined due to improved access to therapies and prevention awareness. Environmental changes contribute to the spread of parasitic diseases like schistosomiasis. Research has elucidated emerging mosquito-borne diseases like Zika fever and chikungunya, and ways to prevent highly contagious diseases like Ebola.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, the approach to public health provided by developing countries has constantly been evolving or changing along with the development of science and technology. The healthcare system initially concentrated on eradicating existing diseases, vaccines, contamination, etc. In contrast, now, healthcare mainly concentrates on health education, health awareness programs, etc., where the concentration is mainly put on prevention rather than following up to cure as a primordial approach to eliminate the disease. This development in public health has been seen to be an appreciative quality and a goal towards a promising future, considering the people's livelihood, health, and well-being and public health as a global sector. This reassures health and its goal towards consistent improvement, which can be achieved harmoniously with many other sectors, such as NGOs (non-government organizations), government policies, policymakers, the public, etc.
