Introduction
The health of adolescents in the United States has become a major issue among the stakeholders in the health sector. While some of them are increasingly becoming obese, others suffer from malnutrition as they try to ape the lifestyle of the top models. This problem is very common among adolescent girls who are willing to do anything to remain slim.
Food Safety
Millions of Americans are suffering from food-related diseases. The increasing popularity of fast foods in this country is posing a serious challenge to the health care sector as the number of people suffering from food-related complications has increased (Feldstein, 2012).
Healthy Weight
Society needs to understand the standard weight that is considered healthy. This should be determined by the body mass index. Maintaining a healthy weight is the best way of fighting some the lifestyle diseases such as obesity and coronary diseases.
Vaccination and Immunization
Some of the common diseases that affected Americans in the past such as polio have been successfully eliminated through vaccination. It is the responsibility of all the parents to ensure that their children are immunized against all the diseases that have vaccines (Penner, 2004).
World Health Organization
Essential Health Technologies
The data shows that increasing the relevance of health technologies, especially those used in fighting complex health problems such as cancer, has forced the stakeholders in the health sector to invest a lot in this area (Jones, 2011). It is the only sure way of fighting some of the emerging health problems in developed nations.
Essential medicines
The data indicates that in the United States and other developed countries around the world low income earners still struggle to get the best healthcare services because they are always forced to use public facilities.
Governance and Aid Effectiveness
It is clear from the data that most government, including WHO, have been increasing their expenditure on the health sector as a way of helping the stakeholders fight some of the emerging health problems. A good part of this income goes to research and development.
Health Financing
Although the developed countries have managed to solve the problem of health financing, most of the low and medium-income countries still suffer from insufficient funding of fundamental health projects. This lowers the quality of health delivered to the public (Hicks, 2014).
Health Workforce
The data shows that in most of the developed nations, qualified health workers are majorly found in the urban centers. It is also demonstrated that the developed nations have a higher number the highly skilled workforce than the developing nations.
Service Delivery
Service delivery in developed countries remains higher than in developing countries. It is also clear that the urban centers have a better capacity to deliver quality services as opposed to the rural settings.
From the First e-Activity
When addressing the problem of healthy weight, the populations commonly used are adolescents. They are the main consumers of junk food. Addressing their problem helps in fighting some of the common diseases among this group such as obesity (Annemans, 2008).
From the Second e-Activity
When addressing the issue of immunization, the most commonly used populations are children under five years. The process helps to fight some of the chronic diseases such as polio, reducing government expenditure on the health sector.
Differences in Consumer’s Decision Making
The main difference between the decision made by U.S. consumers and those in other countries is based on quality. While Americans are very sensitive to the quality of healthcare services they receive, consumers in developing countries would go for any basic healthcare services (Whittington, 2008).
References
Annemans, L. (2008). Health Economics for Non-economists: An Introduction to the Concepts, Methods and Pitfalls of Health Economic Evaluations. New York: Academia Pr Scientific Publishers.
Feldstein, P. J. (2012). Health care economics. Clifton Park: Delmar Cengage Learning.
Hicks, L., (2014). Economics of health and medical care. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Jones, A. M. (2011). The Elgar companion to health economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Penner, S. J. (2004). Introduction to health care economics & financial management: Fundamental concepts with practical applications. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Whittington, R. (2008). Introduction to health economics concepts. London: Greenflint Ltd.