INEQUALITY IN HEALTH CARE

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

By definition healthcare is the mantaining and restoration of health by the treatment and prevention of diseases.

Healthcare also includes:

• Overall physical, social, and mental health status
• Prevention of disease and disability
• Detection and treatment of health conditions
• Quality of life and life expectancy
• Diseases prevention and detection

Limited access to health care impacts people's ability to reach their full potential, negatively affecting their quality of life.

Barriers to services include:

• Lack of availability
• High cost
• Lack of insurance coverage

HEALTH WORKFORCE CRISIS

Children under age of 5 in 2015

PHYSICIAN´S OATH

"Declaration of Geneva." This document was adopted by the World Medical Association only three months before the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) which provides for the security of the person.

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• The health of my patient will be my first consideration
• I will not permit considerations of age, disease or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, political affiliation, race, sexual orientation, social standing or any other factor to intervene between my duty and my patient;

Many years ago a remarkable human acknowledged a major flaw in our society, in our ethic and values, in how the value of life entangled with the thirst for money and power humankind seek to acquire.

REFERENCE LIST:

• http://www.who.int/gho/en/
• http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/index.html
• http://www.who.int/gho/database/en/

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