Презентация "Health Care in the USA"

Health Service in the USA

Teacher:

Samko E.R.

2019

Statistics

United States is a owners of the most expensive health system in the world. USA spends on health service for more than any other country

In the U.S., about 84% of citizens have health insurance

In 2007, the U.S. spent on health 2.26 trillion dollars, which is 7439 dollars for one person

Statistics

In 2000, after analyzing health systems of 191 countries of the world, the U.S. has given the first place in the ranking of the most stable systems able to respond quickly to varying conditions. The United States took the 1st place among the most costly health system and only 37th in terms of health care, and 72th in the general level of health

According to the CIA World Fact book, the level of infant mortality in the U.S. is 41th in the world for life expectancy – 45th

The structure of the health system

U.S. medicine operates on the following levels:

• family medicine;
• hospital care;
• public health.

Hospitals in the United States are divided into three types:

• government;
• profitable private (commercial);
• private «nonprofit».

Health care spending

The medical profession in the United States is a very prestigious and profitable. The average salary of a doctor is 150,000 dollars in a year.

Older people spend on health care is much more money than working, or the child and student.

A simple call to the doctor can cost you $ 200-300, and the trip to the emergency - no less than $ 1,500

Health care spending

Each patient is in a private room with a private bathroom and a telephone. The patient was given two dresses. One is worn on the back, the other on his chest.

The dark side of the American Medical

Every year, 98 thousand patients die in U.S. hospitals from unprofessional actions of medical staff. Medical errors are among the five most common causes of death in the United States.

At least 4.5 thousand children became victims of the 2003 medical errors in the United States.

Most prone to medical errors in children under 1 year

Often as a definitive diagnosis of the deceased child is set to "leaving a foreign object in the body after a medical procedure.“

Every year more than a thousand different surgical instruments left in the bodies of American surgeons operated patients.

The main reason for "forgetfulness" Surgeons is stressful.