Academic Article | Redefining Global Health-care delivery

The article I found through the Auraria Library database is called: Redefining Global Health-care delivery. When trying to find an article that was relevant to my topic, health-care on a large scale, I decided to research via key-words. I typed in health care and after scrolling through the results I found that this article was the one most relevant to my topic.
The article itself talks about, "Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best practices spread slowly." (Kim, Farmer, Porter, 1060) The article goes on to talk about ways to spread disease awareness, preventions, and cures for mass diseases such as HIV/AIDS.

 The article changed my perspective on my topic because it reminded me that there are diseases that the USA has cured and has cures for that the rest of the world is still dealing with. It hits home because it reminds me that the reason national health care is needed is because there are still people who are homeless or people in the lower class who cannot afford standard health care.

 After reading this article I want to know more about how much the lack of a standardized health care system truly affects the citezens of the USA.

Citation:
Kim, Farmer, and Michael Porter. “Redefining Global Health-Care Delivery.” The Lancet,     vol. 382, issue 9897, Fall 2013, pp. 1060-1069. dfjlhttps://www-sciencedirect-com.aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0140673613610478

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