Dear Editor, According to the World Health Organization, more than 38 million people die of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) per year. Most ...
Dear Editor,
According to the World Health Organization, more than 38 million people die of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) per year. Most of these cases are the people living in low and middle income. Main causes of death are heart disease, cancer, respiratory diseases and diabetes observed.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Word Factbook indicates that the prevalence of obesity among adults was 26.8 percent (2014), suggesting that more than one quarter of adults in Jamaica a body mass index has 30 or more.
We currently spend about 5.9 percent of GDP on health, while the United States, Britain, Cuba and Barbados spend 17.9, 9.4, 8.6 and 6.3, respectively - all spending on health in Jamaica the basis of the 2012 CIA figures a greater percentage of their GDP.
Therefore, it is no wonder that so many Jamaicans about the ineffective nature complain of the public health service. What is also true that, despite the non-payment for users that demand is not exorbitant by the budget of public health in Jamaica. In fact, in 2000 the proportion of total health expenditure was 5.5 percent. What these numbers suggest that despite the increase in 2008, if it is not implemented by the user fee policy, there is a significant change in the total net cost of health care.
We have to make sure to also our medical staff, in spite of many challenges you support calculate the field. There were problems - as they are required to be middle-income in a country bajo-- still regrets not reach a state where it is the norm to die in waiting rooms for patients or any time when the public health system have entered. We have the stories of people in the waiting rooms in the United States die recalled because of lack of attention, because they could not afford the cost of health services. This does not happen in Jamaica!
The main problem that affects our national health, both in terms of cost, weight, power and other results is ENT, now represent more than half of the results of the deadly disease, this does not include the number of people, who due to these diseases a disability , The truth is that much of it is preventable, if people take more responsibility for their own health.
a change of attitude is the health and healthy living in Jamaica needed regarding. This includes not only our relationship with movement and our love for sweet women, but the way we interact normally to lead to a very stressful life.
To reduce the burden on the health care system does not require large paradigm shift in Jamaica, only a change in attitude and knowledge of the Jamaicans. Is healthy living really a "Green Card" need.
Garth Watson
garthdawatson@yahoo.com
