Global Health Blogs with Professor Swahn

China has risen to global stardom in the last few decades. Its economy is increasing in capacity and is estimated to surpass the US and be the world’s largest economy in the next couple of years. They have successfully lifted a considerable percentage of the population out of poverty through economic reforms starting in 1978.  […]

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Healthcare system we always talked about. It’s always been a hot topic for discussion and diabetes. What is health care..? Health care is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or curve of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. The definition looks like it’s a […]

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Health systems comprise of people, institutions, and resources to meet the health needs of populations. With a robust adjusted health system’ that seeks to meet the needs of different individuals, countries can focus on prevention, diagnosis, treatment, disease control, violence prevention, and improving individuals’ physical or mental health needs. Countries with efficient and effective access […]

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In the past year, our world experienced something that many would have never thought would ever occur…a global pandemic. The Coronavirus or as some would like to abbreviate it as COVID-19, became an enemy of the world and with that has caused strain on healthcare systems and economies on numerous countries across the globe (Peter […]

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           Australia and the United States are two very different countries. They are far away from each other, have contrasting fauna and flora, differ immensely by population, and have vastly different healthcare systems. The United States has a population of 331 million people, compared to Australia’s population of 25.5 million people. […]

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Everyone knows that the United States is a first world country, but does a first world country forget to prioritize healthcare? The United States is a democracy with a commercial economy, laws set in place, and a high standard of living. Other countries with lower incomes and less stable democracies often look at us, the […]

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Many Americans immediately assume the worst when they hear the words “Socialized Medicine”. Americans are fed horror stories about how individuals in countries that have socialized medicine have to wait months or even years to see a doctor or how the treatments they are seeking aren’t even available in those countries. With little knowledge of […]

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