High Mortality Rate in Ukraine

Nursing: High Mortality in Ukraine

Global health systems, factors that influence global health systems and health disparities

Ukraine has survived several challenges since its independence. It has the highest number of death rates in the entire European Union. Its high mortality rates are attributed to several factors such as health care inequalities, weak and the poor political system, environmental injuries and others even resulting from communicable and non communicable diseases. Generally, the entire world has had a positive response in its population growth. Ukraine's growth has come as an alarm when compared to fellow European states and to what the entire world is gearing towards. The huge health care disparity in Ukraine has proved to have a far-reaching effect on the people's health status. The portion of the community that is not able to access to basic health care services in the country are not able to live for many years and are more constrained. The health care policies being passed in the country also plays a role, if implemented, in shaping the health system.

According to Frenk (2010), there has been tremendous advancement noted in health and the survival rate throughout the entire globe for the past decades. The life expectancy of the entire world, according to the United Nations world population prospects revision of 2010 rose from 48 years to 68 years by the year 2010. Despite the increase in the longevity of life in nearly all people of the world, an increase in some region has overshadowed other regions. Increase in the total number of people through the development shown by the demographic information is through the improvement of the ability to conceive and ability to survive as markers. Differential risks of cause-specific mortality thus explain the persistent disparities in the pace of improvements in survival across the world's populations. Countries that have reduced the risk of childhood death from pneumonia and diarrheal diseases, for example, have achieved more rapid gains in longevity and advanced further through their transitions that is seen in demography and epidemiology.

The WHO (2008) report consists of two parts that are well organized. First, deals with the overall changes that and the mortality patterns associated with age specificity that characterize the transition of the demography that is described and it has a relationship with a shifting pattern noted in the distribution of death. Secondly, the roles that the specific major causes leading to death play in contributing to disparities seen in the survival rate globally. The report has highlights on how large burden developed by the communicable disease, including premature mortalities creates a barrier between the demographic and epidemiological transition. This leads to a double burden that ends up causing survival disadvantages in many communities

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