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The World Health
Organization defines
"Health" as a state of
complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease”
"Essential medicine" as medicines that satisfy
the needs of the majority of the population and therefore should be available at
all times, in adequate amounts in appropriate dosage forms and at a price the
individual and community can afford”
Health must
be seen as a system requiring preventive health plans including:
- Education and training in risks
and transmission
- Comprehensive, universal public
health with hospitals and primary healthcare
- Resource administration plans;
research, and professional training
- In addition, a whole range of
socioeconomic factors has a direct bearing on states of health and these
cannot be solved by medication.
Lack
of recognition of:
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Their
way of life,
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Culture,
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History
and
Even language
leads them to be culturally discriminated and, on many occasions, socially,
economically and even in employment.
Discrimination
is maintained in the sphere of education.
“they
did not choose what they have to learn”
Low
level of education or lack of recognition and respect for their social rights
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Factors
that determine the current poor state of health
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The elements
that influence the state of a population’s health are diverse and may be of a
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Political,
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Social,
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Economic,
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Sanitary
or Environmental nature
Therefore,
among the prime conditioning factors for health, hunger, the lack of
maternal-child health, the influence of environmental changes on health, the
appearance of new and recurrent diseases, different forms of violence, the
political context, and commercial agreements with rich countries can be
identified.
Most
vulnerable:
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Children,
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Low-income
groups and
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Disabled
people.
Projects:
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Establishing
Blood Bank (BB)
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Establishment
of Free Pharmacy (FP)
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Cancer
Help Desk (CHD)
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Awareness
Programmes at community, school, college & university levels about Blood
Donation & General Health
Suggestions:
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Establish
public health systems based on integration and equality - access should not
only guarantee physical health, but it should also collaborate with the
integration of excluded populations into society
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Sufficient
available resources (human, financial and technological) - these services
sustainable and adaptable to the local cultures and geographical
characteristics in each area
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Unable to
retain their health professionals because, once qualified, they are lured
away by the higher salaries offered by rich
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Access to
preventative treatments - There are cases of patients who are unable to
continue with treatments either because of lack of supply or inaccessibility
to these treatments.
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With
regard to medicines, There are two factors, price and lack of production,
which represent an insurmountable barrier in the battle against chronic and
endemic diseases. - There is an urgent need to review the patent protection
mechanisms in order to find a solution that enables developing countries to
access medicines
Miscellaneous
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Need to
meet demand for medicines, overcome weaknesses in the system and the lack of
staff and laboratories.
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Developing
vaccines for AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, striving for genuine health
care universality, running campaigns for educating women about health and
bringing in new laws, amongst other thing
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Prices
are not regulated
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Mobile
teams of social health care workers should be set up, who would travel
anywhere and carry out a kind of health care training and, above all, take
the emotional intelligence of patients into account
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