Health system and financial inequalities in the UK, Mexico and Ghana. An assessment of financing mechanisms for the promotion or reduction of health inequalities

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Health - Public Health, grade: 79.6, Anglia Ruskin University, language: English, abstract: The objective of this report is to conduct a critical and comparative analysis of UK, Ghana and Mexican health system with special emphasis on financial inequalities discerned. The World Health Report, 2000 recommends that the global health care system performances has to be assessed by the average health of the population as well as by how citizen's health status and the financial burden of health care is evenly distributed among the population. This dominant concern with equity is reflected in many modern directives on health, all in an attempt to present an equitable system without financial preference on a global scale. For individuals at the top of the socio-economic spectrum, the multiple mechanisms adopted by UK, Ghana and the Mexican health systems provide excellent care according to any standard. But for the citizens at the bottom of such social distributions, system delivers a little more than a vaccination.