Health policy in other continents

In 2000, at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, the leaders from 189 countries agreed on the Millenium development goals, setting targets for a reduction of poverty. The two targets are:

• The "water target": - To halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015.
• The "sanitation target": To halve the proportion of people without access to a basic sanitation by 2015.

Health policy in Europe

Its main characteristic is that if you go on holidays to another country of the European Union, you need a doctor and you have your European Health Insurance Card with you, you have the same rights as local citizens. There has been a significant improvement in the health of Europe's population, that has been driven by factors inside and outside the sector of health.

Health policy in Asia

South Asia faces public health challenges. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are home to nearly one fifth of the world’s population. Two thirds of their population live on less than 1 dollar for a day. They have a low quality of life, high rates of malnutrition, infant mortality, very bad illnessess...
Not only this region faces health problems, they also have a poor sanitation, poor maternal health, poor access for a health service...

Health policy in America

The health care in the United States is provided by many different organizations. Health care facilities are owned and also operated by private sector businesses.

Most of the population under 67 is insured by their or a family member's employer, some buy health insurance on their own, and the rest haven't got a health insurance.

Health policy in Africa

There is a crisis in Africa's underdevelopment. One important thesis is that Western delivery systems have made health care very less accessible for most people. Problems are generated by the poor amount of food, inequality of access to facilities, the violation of human rights...

One major implication of this volume is that there can be no solution to the health crisis in Africa until there is a recognized link between health and poverty

Health policy in Oceania

Health care in Australia is provided by both private and government institutions. The federal Ministerial for Health administers national health policy, elements of which are operated by state governments.

The public health care is called Medicare and coexists with a private health system.