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A 6 page review of the relationship which exists between meeting health care needs, politics, technology, and increasing life spans. Health care systems around the world operate on the basis of an intricate balance between economy, politics, and medical need. In the midst of this balance we find dramatic advancements in technology and pharmacology which, while tremendously valuable from a health care perspective, put more and more drain on troubled economies. We consequently turn to our politicians to work out the conflicts which erupt. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The relationship between ageing, health, and health care utilization is integrally tied to both politics and economy. Indeed, one cannot explore this relationship
without doing so from a political-economic perspective. Nor can one explore the concept of medical efficacy without the utilization of this perspective. Health care systems around the world,
in fact, operate on the basis of an intricate balance between economy, politics, and medical need. In the midst of this balance we find dramatic advancements in technology and
pharmacology which, while tremendously valuable from a health care perspective, put more and more drain on troubled economies. We consequently turn to our politicians to work out the conflicts
which erupt. Many health care systems are currently experiencing economic stress as a result of the very medical advances which are perceived by
the world as being instrumental in saving lives and making life more pleasant and bearable for many more. Much of the cost of rising health care is attributed to
newly discovered and costly drugs and high-tech procedures, many of which are specialized laboratory procedures developed only in the past few years, but much of the cost is a simple
reflection of the fact that medical science is keeping people alive longer than it has in previous decades (Collins, 1993). In 1997 drugs alone were estimated to cost the
Canadian National Health System, for example, thirteen percent of its budget (Toynbee, 1997). Other health care systems around the world are experiencing similar budgetary drains as a result of
pharmaceutical needs. Increasingly complex technological advancements further this drain. Longer lifespans, of course, also translate into a heavier drain on health care
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