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- What have you learned about the impact of a country's economic, political, and cultural values on the delivery of healthcare? Begin with the States and then provide a comparison to other counties as well as Saudi Arabia
- What have you learned about the role governments can play in a country's healthcare system? United States and Saudi Arabia
- What have you learned about the pressing issues facing the delivery of healthcare in the United States, other countries, Saudi Arabia, and are there similarities.
- Identify opportunities and recommend actions to improve upon the current healthcare delivery system in the United States.
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Question 1
Health care delivery is influenced by economic, political and cultural values of a country.
Recently, the assessment of these factors and other external influences of healthcare delivery is
becoming a recognizable stage of planning mechanisms and health service strategic
development. This assessment is mainly carried out through PEST analysis. The purpose of this
paper is to analyze the impact caused by these factors to health care delivery.
The American health care system has changed drastically and continues to evolve. For
instance, the rising cost of healthcare insurance and increased cost of pharmaceutical drugs is
leading to ineffective health care delivery. The rapid population growth in the U.S and the high
number of elderly people is affecting government-funded health care programs like Medicaid
which help in paying for medical services (Cebul, Rebitzer, Taylor & Votruba, 2008). In addition
to that, cultural beliefs, especially from the immigrant population effects, possess a challenge in
the healthcare sector. Institutions established to provide health care also have cultures that may
influence servic...
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