In 2012, almost eight out of one thousand people died. In spite of that it seems like a negligible ratio, eight is a relatively great number if the rate is involved with death. Nations resort to effective healthcare to cut down this rate. Nevertheless, healthcare injustice is a vital complication that has not been solved till now. Martin Luther King said “of all forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and the most inhumane.” Oxford Dictionary defines healthcare as “the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially by providing medical services; injustice is a lack of fairness or justice.” Healthcare injustice is a life-related social injustice that is universal, influential to several aspects of human lives, and avoidable.
Some say healthcare is not a problem in developed countries at all, but health injustice is a universal phenomenon. Taking a look at developing countries, ninety percent of diseases happened in developing countries where less than 10% of their annual budgets were used for healthcare (Chudi 2010). In addition, even in the most advanced and wealthy …show more content…
In conclusion, healthcare injustice is a universal social injustice that influences people’s life quality economically and educationally, but healthcare injustice is, indeed, avoidable with a universal healthcare system. Everyone living in the world has risks to be the victim whose life is jeopardized by such form of injustice. Consequently, I think governments and certain agencies are required to be mobilized to wipe out this menace, which threats both our societies and lives, in order to ensure everyone living on earth can access healthcare system at anywhere, anytime. Unless everyone could access effective and equal healthcare, injustice in healthcare will still be the most shocking and inhumane form of inequality in the
Some say healthcare is not a problem in developed countries at all, but health injustice is a universal phenomenon. Taking a look at developing countries, ninety percent of diseases happened in developing countries where less than 10% of their annual budgets were used for healthcare (Chudi 2010). In addition, even in the most advanced and wealthy …show more content…
In conclusion, healthcare injustice is a universal social injustice that influences people’s life quality economically and educationally, but healthcare injustice is, indeed, avoidable with a universal healthcare system. Everyone living in the world has risks to be the victim whose life is jeopardized by such form of injustice. Consequently, I think governments and certain agencies are required to be mobilized to wipe out this menace, which threats both our societies and lives, in order to ensure everyone living on earth can access healthcare system at anywhere, anytime. Unless everyone could access effective and equal healthcare, injustice in healthcare will still be the most shocking and inhumane form of inequality in the