Question

How does economics apply to health care? In your own words how do you define health? Conduct a search for the term health from a public health source and choose the one that you think is the best. Provide the reference for this definition and elaborate on why you think this is the best definition.

Explain how an increase in income would affect the level of health in a relatively affluent country like the United States compared to a relatively poor country like Haiti. Be specific regarding the various factors that influence health and how they may differ in these countries.

Answer 1

1). The term “health economics” refers to the economics related to the effectiveness, efficiency, and value in the production and utilization of health and health associated services. Means, it is about studying the organization of functioning of health associated systems and the behaviors that affect health such as sedentary lifestyles, excessive alcohol consumption, or smoking.

The irreversible stoppage of the functioning of body’s vital systems such as cardiovascular system, respiratory system, and the brain is considered as death. The improved technology helped in better understanding of death by the physicians, lawyers, society and religious people. The legal definition of death is the irreversible loss of functional ability of circulatory and respiratory systems including the functions of brain and brain stem. The advanced technology has clearly defined the different states of impaired brain functioning that include coma, vegetative state, and brain death, all of which solely cannot be considered as death.