Studying health care systems of other countries could be beneficial for domestic ones in terms of comparison and implementation of certain innovations. Advancement, in most cases, demands to draw experience from the best. Yet, to say which health care system is the most high-performing in many aspects, there arises a necessity for continuous education and comparative studies which ensure the presence of reliable data for further analysis and change policy construction.
The analysis of the health care system of another country, as argued by Healy, Tang, Patcharanarumol, and Annear (2018), is a complex matter that cannot fit into a single study. Thus, there is a need for a concentration on a single aspect and produce multiple studies to offer deeper analysis.
In any case, there exists a necessity for the immersion of domestic specialists into the health care system of another country as a part of the foreign professional exchange. In such a situation, a professional has an opportunity to gather insights from within the system that makes such an experience more valuable. In addition, U.S. doctors often practice in clinics with no severe shortage of resources, which might impede some individuals to innovate the manner of their delicate use (Ruchman, Singh, & Stapleton, 2016). In contrast, in low-income countries, hospitals might be optimized to provide the best quality of care possible with limited resources.
Such an experience might help the U.S. health care system develop new approaches to decrease its operational expenditures. Thus, by gathering the insights from other countries through international professional exchange and encouragement of continuous comparative studies, any country could advance its health care system. Studying abroad is one of the most prominent ways of collecting reliable data for such change and further research
References
Healy, J. M., Tang, S., Patcharanarumol, W., & Annear, P. L. (2018). A framework for comparative analysis of health systems: Experiences from the Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, 7(1), 5-12.
Ruchman, S. G., Singh, P., & Stapleton, A. (2016). Why US health care should think globally. AMA Journal of Ethics, 18(7), 736-742.