It is now time for your Comparative health systems report. Each of you has been tasked to review the health care system of two countries and compare them to the United States of America. Ultimately, you will understand how health care systems work around the world because you will get to grade your classmates in your group. If you prefer a healthcare system other than the one that you have been assigned, you will have to get permission to change it to as it cannot be one that has been assigned to someone else. The selection of the countries was carefully chosen. After you have completed the assignment, you classmates have 2 weeks to review your assignment, assess it and provide a grade. The instructor wil also review and provide a grade. 

Resources

Please use the following websites for your project:

1. Country specific websites (government/ministry of health; Health Department websites, etc.)
2. Media coverage of the nations health system (AP, Reuters, etc).
3. United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) 
1. HDI Components/Rank: 
2. Country Profiles: 
4. Mapping Data
5. United Nations Agencies
1. FAO Food and Agricultural Organisation: 
2. IRIN News:   (Humanitarian News and analysis)
3. Plus News:   (Global HIV/AIDS news and analysis)
4. UNDP:  (United Nations Development Programme) 
5. UNICEF:  (United Nations Childrens Fund)
6. UNIFEM:  (United Nations Development Fund for Women)
7. UNHCR:  (UN Refugee Agency)

Create a PowerPoint presentation that compares the healthcare of different nations. 

1.     You will review demographic information, mortality, morbidity, literacy, life expectancy, health care coverage, etc.  Sometimes, it helps to create tables and do a side-by-side comparison of the numeric data and some of the comparative data. You will be comparing the United States to a Low-income country and high-income country.

2.     Write-up  and consider the Social Determinants of Health when writing about the selected health concern for your low income country: 

a.     What are the social and cultural determinants of your health problem identified, 

b.     Who is affected, what are the risk factors, what are the morbidity and mortality rates, HALE, DALYs for the health problem, etc

c.     Education, gender equality, health care system and public health services. 

d.     Are minority voices expressed and heard? 

e.     Who should be involved in the development and implementation of the program or policy? 

f.      Do people have insurance

g.     What is the GDP and/or amount spent on health care per capita, 

h.     What are the resources (human and financial) that can be diverted or included to address the issue?

3.     Are there external forces that affect the implementation of the policy or program (e.g., other countries; large corporations; agricultural or drug manufacturers) that can be are part of the problem or solution, 

4.     Finally, what interventions (program or policy) do you believe would work? What is your evidence-based recommendations for the policy/program intervention and determine barriers to implementation and suggestion on how to overcome these?After completing yours, you will have the opportunity to review and assess (grade) 2 other students in a group that will be reviewing different information and countries from you. After reviewing 2 classmates work, you will be knowledgeable of at least 8 countries health care systems. 

My Countries are