| div> | | | | Individuals who work in health care include all |
| Cerebal palsy will affect the muscle tone, movement | | | | professionals whose job it is to preserve life, treat |
| and motor skills. | | | | and cure sickness and try to improve the health of |
| Healthcare is the general term used for the entire | | | | people. The collective expression for this is the health |
| sphere of prevention, treatment and cure of sickness | | | | care industry but the word industry may not |
| and disease using the facilities of medical | | | | necessarily be the best one to use. |
| professionals and resources. Although The World | | | | Worldwide, over recent decades, there has been a |
| Health Organization would like to see the expression | | | | huge increase in the sum of money spent on health |
| extended to include all individuals whether an individual | | | | care and it is now one of the fastest growing |
| or whole populations. Collectively, this provision of | | | | sectors in every developed country with an average |
| medical facilities would be known as a healthcare | | | | cost of ten percent of the gross domestic product. |
| system. | | | | The USA has seen some of the largest rises and the |
| Before the term health-care became commonplace, | | | | figures in 2006 are expected to be the same as |
| English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health | | | | 2003 with over 15 percent of GDP - it is presently |
| sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention | | | | the largest in the world but the increase by 2016 is |
| of illness and disease. Around the world today, most | | | | anticipated to be almost twenty percent.currently in |
| countries have a system in place to ensure that | | | | the The United States over one hundred eighty |
| everyone receives healthcare irrespective of their | | | | million citizens are looking for healthcare and it will be |
| social standing or financial situation. Established in | | | | no surprise to learn that it is top of all concerns for |
| 1948, The National Health Service in the United | | | | those in and seeking employment. Many large |
| Kingdom was the world's first universal health care | | | | companies in The United States are feeling the |
| system provided by government. | | | | effects of these rises in healthcare provision and an |
| In Italy, they have a system that works by making | | | | extreme case was where the car giant General |
| everyone pay into a government funded insurance | | | | Motors was seriously considering bankruptcy because |
| scheme which The World Health Organization | | | | of it. In this instance some hard Union negotiations, |
| consider the second best healthcare system in the | | | | compromises and the closing down of their finance |
| world. Canada and Australia have both begun similar | | | | arm GMAC meant this action wasn’t required. |
| systems and have been running since almost twenty | | | | Health care has become an extremely fundamental |
| and the 1970’s respectively both going by the | | | | issue to Americans one which employers must |
| name of Medicare. Even so, these systems of health | | | | address to a work force which demands better |
| care where everyone benefits from a administration | | | | healthcare benefits. Maybe the situation needs to be |
| based service contrast starkly with those in America | | | | looked at from a different angle, one in which people |
| where almost all healthcare is paid for through the | | | | are encouraged to stay fit and healthy as societies in |
| provision of insurance schemes or privately. | | | | general see a decline in the health of its populations. |