The review of health system of the Kingdom of Denmark and United Kingdom

Mirza Totić ,İbrahim Taymur

doi:10.5937/intrev1802022t

Abstract

The paper deals with the functioning and development of national health systems in the Kingdom of Denmark, which is a very stable member of the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom, regardless of its recent outbreak (Brexit) from a large European family. The main goal is to make a review of the necessity of creation of professional health personnel, their mobility, financing of business processes and medical procedures, and also on general problems that the health systems are facing every day. As these are highly developed European economies, it is known that the creators of their health policies are continuously working on the improvement of health systems, ensuring adequate health care and raising and maintaining a high level of collective health for the population. Lately, in these kingdoms, many people believe that for the proper functioning of health sector in general, the way of obtaining of necessary financial resources, their amounts and sustainability of the sources have no big importance, while as far more significant emerge the influences of globalization processes which like hurricane destroy systems (insufficient professional staff) without legal and economic-medical arrangements. Given that the authors are not fully in agreement with this statement, they pledge to the invited authorities to pay more attention on the policy of financing, human capital, its improvement and elimination of health inequality, especially in the field of primary health care.

Highlights

Each Member State of the European Union (EU) is obliged to define the strategy in order to create a high-quality national health system that will become an integral part of internationally integrated healthcare activities, and in which their citizens could use the adequate health care
Tobacco consumption has experienced a sharp decline over the last ten years, which is a special success, Danes, both adults and adolescents, consume alcohol uncontrolled being the leading nation in the European Union (EU). This social deviation is directly related to the mortality rate which is higher in the Kingdom of Denmark than in most other European Union Member States
The health system in each Member State of the European Union (EU) is a vital social segment whose purpose and function is best understood by active participants in the creation of its quality

Summary

Introduction

Each Member State of the European Union (EU) is obliged to define the strategy in order to create a high-quality national health system that will become an integral part of internationally integrated healthcare activities, and in which their citizens could use the adequate health care. Medicine has made a number of advanced steps: it has become a pillar of healthcare activity (it will forever remain) and a guarantee of renewable human resources from which the healthy potential can always be recruited for business needs In these kingdoms (and in other European Union Member States), the health system is perceived as a social phenomenon, so the creators of their health policies use their own expert strength and various methods and patterns in order to create an appropriate scientific base and a safe haven for citizens/(Ivana Radić, Vesna Kahrimanović, Branko Budimir, 2007: 72). In the mentioned kingdoms the latter are being directed to financing of the needs of health service providers in order to provide new generations of medical experts that will use their own knowledge and skills, helped by modern instruments in modern medical treatments and procedures

Providing healthcare professionals and the challenge of mobility

Kingdom of Denmark

United Kingdom

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