Access To Healthcare Effects

Access to healthcare effects many aspects of our lives. Lack of healthcare creates economically difficulties, the unnecessary spread of disease as well as, untimely preventable deaths. Healthcare should be accessible and affordable to everyone. Access to healthcare has detrimental effects on us all, regardless of where we live as we are all connected globally in one way or another. One billion people do not have access to a healthcare system. (1) This horrifying fact leads to 36 million deaths a year from non-communicable diseases. These diseases range from cardiovascular disease, cancers, chronic lung diseases as well as diabetes. Over 7.5 million children under the age of 5 die mostly from preventable diseases each year. Lack of healthcare …show more content…
(1). Successfully responding to the spread of these diseases in Africa and other countries takes a strong public health care response. (1) The United States has spent over 48 billion dollars to help fight HIV and AIDS in countries who lack healthcare. (1), while research shows that a significant proportion of global burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases could be reduced through improved preventive action to improve access to healthcare. (1) This has had a huge impact economically as this money is raised by increasing taxes, our healthcare premiums and what we must pay for prescription drugs. Lack of healthcare has effects on a local as well as global level. As people from areas affected with disease travel the world the bring the disease home to us. As their economy suffers we suffer, as Americans we are compelled to reach out to less fortunate countries and help them financially, which causes our government to increase our taxes which causes increased economic stress for us. Therefore, regardless of where we live we are all connected to and effected by the detrimental outcomes that lack of healthcare