It is said that “the most powerful force for controlling medical spending is the cost-conscious consumer”; however, there are other factors (determinants of health) other than medical care spending that can affect the health of an individual and ultimately the health of a population. Some of these other factors (determinants of health) include lifestyle choices, environmental factors, family history (genetics), where one works and live, one’s income and developments in technology.
Based on the reading from the textbooks and any other sources that you may have researched kindly present a 500-600 word response/argument to support or oppose the notion that these other factors (determinants of health) mentioned above affect the health of an individual and eventually the health of the population.
As a guide, one can approach the matter from a disparity perspective or from the benefit-cost analysis. In other words, express in your own words how you perceive the following factors affecting/impacting one’s health and in the end the health of a nation.
Madagascar, a previous French province, has been assaulted by military overthrows, political savagery, and defilement for quite a long time. It is an economy with numerous undiscovered normal assets, no capital markets, a feeble legal framework, ineffectively implemented agreements, and wild government defilement. Farming, including angling and ranger service, is a backbone of the economy, representing more than one-fourth of GDP and utilizing generally 80% of the populace. Deforestation and disintegration, and the utilization of kindling as the essential wellspring of fuel, are not kidding worries to the farming ward economy. Madagascar delivers around 80% of the world’s vanilla stockpile; despite the fact that supply was compelled by sea tempest related harm in 2017, worldwide interest drove costs to record highs, expanding send out income for Malagasy vanilla.
The nation faces difficulties to improve training, social insurance, and nature to help long haul monetary development. In the wake of disposing of communist financial approaches which demonstrated awful for Madagascar in the mid-1990s, Madagascar followed a World Bank and IMF drove strategy of privatization and progression until the beginning of a political emergency, which kept going from 2009 to 2013. The technique had put the nation on a gradual development way from a very low beginning stage. Fares of attire blasted subsequent to picking up obligation free access to the US in 2000; be that as it may, Madagascar’s inability to conform to the necessities of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) prompted the end of the nation’s sans obligation access in January 2010, a sharp fall in material creation, and lost in excess of 100,000 employments. Madagascar recovered AGOA access in January 2015 after the law based appointment of another president the earlier year. Madagascar’s budgetary area stays powerless, restricting the utilization of fiscal strategy to control expansion, yet continuous IMF endeavors intend to reinforce monetary and speculation the board limit.