Global Health Issues In Canada

In the United States 4% births resulted in a baby being still born in the year 2013 (World Health Statistics, 2015). While in Canada 3.4% of births resulted in still born babies (World Health Statistics, 2015). In the U.S., despite seeing a decrease in infant mortality, blacks continue to have the highest mortality rate than any other races. The United States has been the slowest country to improve its infant mortality rate, and Canada is close behind. Approximately 1,500 cases of malaria are annually diagnosed in the U.S (CDC, 2015). Malaria is a disease that is brought over from other countries, the main source being South Africa. Malaria is spread through mosquitos that carry this infectious and often life threatening disease. If one …show more content…
Since 2006 over $9 billion in support of technology, science, and the growth of innovative firms, has fostered a world class research system that helped improve and support Canadian economic growth and business. While Canada seems to be on the right track when it comes to improving their medical technology, they are still far behind many countries, including the United States. Their lack of the latest modern technology has nothing to do with finances; in fact it is more so that they do not have easy access to the technologies needed to advance in modern day medicine. Another weakness that Canada has regarding healthcare is their access. Wait times to see specialists and to have elective surgeries done are extremely high. Patients sometimes have to wait for months before receiving care. Not only is it difficult to have access to a qualified doctor during regular business hours, but it seems nearly impossible reach one after the normal office hours. All in all, Canadians’ access to qualified doctors is extremely low. Although Canada had some weakness to their healthcare, they also have numerous strengths. For example, everyone is that is born (or becomes) a Canadian citizen is eligible for health insurance coverage. Anyone is eligible no matter their social status, income, race, prior health history, etc. With that being said, patients get to choose who they want as their …show more content…
One of the many weaknesses that the U.S’ healthcare has is its cost. The cost for an average family is roughly $17,000. Although at this price the whole family has full coverage, it still cost quite a lot. Not only is it costly for individual families, it is also costly for practitioners. It cost millions of dollars to stay on top of modern medicine advancements. The United States has more physicians per capita than most other industrialized nations, which seems like more of strength than a weakness. However, while the US has more physicians per person, or group of people, they are distributed rather sporadically both geographically and by specialty. Again, this can be considered both a positive and a negative aspect of United States healthcare. On one hand, the US seems to have a lot more “big” practices such as neurosurgeons, plastic surgery, and cardiovascular specialists. On the opposite end of that equation primary care physicians seem to be harder to come by. Citizens have to travel to bigger cities to find family physicians or surgeons that will take their mediocre insurance. This means that low income families are going to have a more difficult time affording basic healthcare. America is the leader in perfecting advanced technologies in medicine. In countries like South Africa, they are unable to diagnose patients who seem to have serious health conditions because they lack the