Legislation and Ethical Issues in Healthcare
Primary healthcare is regarded as the basis of the healthcare system, as it is intended to provide 'most care for most people, for most conditions, most of the time'. Primary health care aims to promote health and prevent disease, using education as one of its main tools. It aims to cure sick people and help people with disabilities to improve the quality of their lives. It follows the approach that health is linked to a country's social, economic and political development. It sees health as dependent on the environment in which people live, the services to which they have access and the extent to which they are able to take responsibility for their health. But ethical issues in healthcare are common. Nearly every decision that’s made has ethical implications for patients, for providers and for healthcare leaders. Some of the common challenges would be to balance the quality and safety with efficiency, providing everyone with access to basic medical care remains a concern, need of healthcare professionals to take care of increasing population and medication shortages due to economics growth.