The Future of One National Healthcare System Compared With another International Healthcare System

The Future of One National Healthcare System Compared With another International Healthcare System
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Introduction
Health care systems and health care policies are unique for every country. It is important that a country ensures that it has a reliable health care system as a source of income for the citizens, the country as a whole, and to provide health solutions to members of the country whether they can afford it or not. In this paper, we will look at the health care system of India, its past, its future trend and we will compare it to an international healthcare system whose mission is to provide health policy support through promoting high-performing healthcare systems in Switzerland and other countries with the need of improvements in the health sector.
The Indian Healthcare System
The Indian healthcare system relies on a mantra that states: Man and Medicine: Towards Health for All. In India, the relationship between medicine and antiquity is quite profound. For a long time and in many parts of India, cosmological and anthropological perspectives have been used to interpret illnesses and disease. Religious and magical beliefs dominated the mysteries of medicine before modern times. However, owing to the relationship between medicine and human advancement, it is important to view India’s health system based on the recent civilization status and the country’s advancement towards medicine and certain diseases.
The health sector in India is handled by the state, central and local government. In terms of health systems delivery in this country, the state is solely responsible (Reddy et al., 2011). The central government makes sure that health services are available and accessible to union territories that do not have a legislature and also ensures that the recommended national standards of healthcare are suitably developed and monitored by implementing regulations. An efficient healthcare system relies heavily on the level of funds that the country has access to. It is therefore the central government’s responsibility to link India’s states with funding agencies and sponsors that would ensure the smooth flow of healthcare schemes that the government seeks to implement. The central government and the state coordinate to realize the implementations of various healthcare programs that India has. These programs include primary health centres, family planning incentives and campaigns, the Green Revolution that was implemented between 1967 and 1977, national health programs, the national health policy, the National Rural Health Mission, and the Public Health Foundation of India among others.
Healthcare as an industry and a service has evolved over the years into one of the largest sectors in India. It is characterized by dynamic changes and these changes have boosted its development significantly in areas where it poses the potential of being competent at. There are certain factors that mark the difference of India’s healthcare systems with other foreign territories. Its ability to thrive as a constantly developing sector makes it unique in its own right. The rapid growth of the healthcare system in India has been attributed to the vast amoun...