Global Training: Pet Insurance & A Global Staff
Have pet insurance questions? You’re not alone. When training a global health workforce, it’s essential these and many other questions be answered along the way. Pet insurance is becoming a part of the healthcare discussion and with the rising medical costs across the board, it’s really no surprise. No one wants to pay more than they have to, for anything, really. By asking the right questions, you won’t have to pay for anything more than you actually need, and that Fido needs.
With so many people in the world denied access to even basic healthcare, it is essential to train a global health workforce in an attempt to redress the balance.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are fifty seven countries in the world facing a severe crisis in terms of numbers health workforce. They also estimate that over 4 million (yes, million) extra health workers are needed to fill that gap. Not surprisingly, most of these countries are located in Africa and Asia. Figures show that whilst only 14% of the world’s population lives in the Americas, they are home to 42% of the world’s healthcare workers and more than 50% of the global expenditure on healthcare. In contrast to this, sub-Saharan Africa is home to 11% of the world’s population, but has only 3% of the healthcare workers and less than 1% of the expenditure.
On the other hand, the increasing number and age of the population in US is partly to blame for a massive deficit in the number of healthcare workers actually needed to provide adequate healthcare, and there is a great difference in the number of places in medical schools to train the doctors and other healthcare professionals of the future, and the number of healthcare workers needed.
Health Education Worldwide
The International Health and Medical Education Center (IHMEC) has been instrumental in initiating policies to regulate an international medical education policy to ensure that equal standards of health education can be reached in different medical schools all over the world. This has facilitated in the training of more healthcare workers, who are adequately trained to provide health care on a global scale. Opening up a world of possibilities for students to train in many different countries of the world has helped to globalize the healthcare profession. Having a workforce which is trained to cope with the many multicultural differences around the world can only be beneficial to the healthcare of all, and hopefully with more new initiatives it will be possible to ensure that all people have access to adequate healthcare, wherever they may live. We live in hope that some day the dream will become a reality.