Health Care Systems in Coumbia, Finland, and United Kingdom

According to The Director General of the National Public Health Institute, Professor Pekka Puska health is very important to everyone, individuals and nationals all over the world, but we all have our own perceptions of health and the cultural issues affect strongly to health. Generally we have good health point, but the differences between nations are large. In developed countries people are living longer, at the moment a baby girls life expectancy will be over a hundred years. We have good control of infectious diseases too. But the development will bring problems too: obesity, diabetes, problems with alcohol etc. As Pekka Puska said we have a great deal of clinical and medical research, drug and clinical research are important, but†¦show more content†¦The public sector in addition to providing services to private companiesand organizations. In Finland the government is obliged to guarantee adequate social and health services and promote the health of population. The public sector with private sectors and organizations provide health care services. (STM, 2013) In Finland we have program Health for all by the year 2000 done by government to parliament. The strategy focuses on health promotion, not so much in developing the health. Age-specific objectives 1 Childrens well-being health will increase, and the insecurity associated symptoms and diseases are significantly reduced. 2 Smoking among young people is reduced in such a way that 16 to 18 year olds less than 15% of smokers, alcohol and young people and drug-related health problems will be dealt with appropriately and they are more common than in the early 1990s. 3 Young adult males an accident and violent death is reduced by one thirdIn the late 1990s level. 4 Working-age people to work and function and working conditions in developing such a way that they contribute toretirement will work and be about three later than in 2000.5 With more than 75 years, the average capacity will continue to improve as thethe last 20 years. (STM) The Health Systems in Transition (HiT)