In this paper, we investigate the possibility and necessity to find a theory concerning the establishment of the right to health, and problems and situations of the medical care system to guarantee the right to health. Our purpose is to maintain and i...
In this paper, we investigate the possibility and necessity to find a theory concerning the establishment of the right to health, and problems and situations of the medical care system to guarantee the right to health. Our purpose is to maintain and improve the nation's health by establishing the right to health and hence we strongly urge the government to establish the positive policy concerning the rational medical care system.
The backgrounds of the right to health we claim come from the ecological and social economic approach. Moreover, the right to health and medical care system come from the legal approach.
One's health status depends upon the social economic phenomena and the disease depends upon the social environment. Thus, the modern medical care is generally recognized as the comprehensive care : preventive, curative, and rehabilitative, Accordingly, maintaining the health of all people is responsible to the government and all people have a right to guarantee the best care anywhere and anytime with a lower fee for service.
The medical care system must be a system which is available for all the people as easily as we want with the best treatment on the higher level of the medical care system. On the other band, since most of our medical care system seem to be the free enterprise nature organized by doctors' relation or individual private practitioners, both of them make use of health care by making money and hence one's life and health problem are available as an object of the commercial profit. Thus, our medical care system may be the worst in the world.
Our country has poor health manpower, health facilities, and no public responsibilities. Also, each medical agency has no functional specializations and no cooperation among medical agencies. Moreover, these agencies are located in the city regions over 80%, and particularly, in rural and inner city or regions with no physicians we have a serious health problem, and also a serious policy concerning health problem, emergency care, special- disease, incurable disease of lower class living in the city regions.
In the future, we supply sufficiently many doctors, coordinate private medical agencies suitably according to particular regions, extend public medical agencies, control both of private and public medical agencies, stop drug abuse, change the health care for the preventive care, establish the comprehensive community care system and emergency care system, vanish the regions with no physicians, cut down fee for service, stop the doctor's exclusive and monopolic care.
Medical care must be socialized. To guarantee the right to health we must nationalize the medical care and make it the National Health Service.