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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40 which are based on Reading Passage 3 on the following pages. Questions 28-3
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40 which are based on Reading Passage 3 on the following pages. Questions 28-3
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40 which are based on Reading Passage 3 on the following pages.
Questions 28-31
Reading Passage 3 has five sections A-E.
Choose the correct heading for sections A and C-Efrom the list of headings below.
Write the correct number i-viii in boxes 28-31 on your answer sheet.
List of Headings
i The connection between health-care and other human rights
ii The development of market-based health systems
iii The role of the state in health-care
iv A problem shared by every economically developed country
v The impact of recent change
vi The views of the medical establishment
vii The end of an illusion
viii Sustainable economic development
The Problem of
Scarce Resources
Section A
The problem of how health-care resources should be allocated or apportioned, so that they are distributed in both the most just and most efficient way, is not a new one. Every health system in an economically developed society is faced with the need to decide(either formally or informally)what proportion of the community’s total resources should be spent on health-care; how resources are to be apportioned; what diseases and disabilities and which forms of treatment are to be given priority; which members of the community are to be given special consideration in respect of their health needs; and which forms of treatment are the most cost-effective.
Section B
What is new is mat, from the 1950s onwards, there have been certain general changes in outlook about the finitude of resources as a whole and of health-care resources in particular, as well as more specific changes regarding the clientele of health-care resources and the cost to the community of those resources. Thus, in the 1950s and 1960s, there emerged an awareness in Western societies that resources for the provision of fossil fuel energy were finite and exhaustible and that the capacity of nature or the environment to sustain economic development and population was also finite. In other words, we became aware of the obvious fact that there were ’limits to growth’. The new consciousness that there were also severe limits to health-care resources was part of mis general revelation of the obvious. Looking back, it now seems quite incredible that in the national health systems that emerged in many countries in the years immediately after the 1939-45 World War, it was assumed without question that all the basic health needs of any community could be satisfied, at least in principle; the ’invisible hand’ of economic progress would provide.
Section C
However, at exactly the same time as this new realisation of the finite character of health-care resources was sinking in, an awareness of a contrary kind was developing in Western societies: mat people have a basic right to health-care as a necessary condition of a proper human life. Like education, political and legal processes and institutions, public order, communication, transport and money supply, health-care came to be seen as one of the fundamental social facilities necessary for people to exercise their other rights as autonomous human beings. People are not in a position to exercise personal liberty and to be self-determining if they are poverty-stricken, or deprived of basic education, or do not live within a context of law and order. In the same way, basic healdi-care is a condition of the exercise of autonomy.
Section D
Although the language of’rights’ sometimes leads to confusion, by the late 1970s it was recognised in most societies that people have a right to health-care(though there has been considerable resistance in the United States to the idea that there is a formal right to healdi-care). It is also accepted that this right generates an obligation or duty for the state to ensure that adequate health-care resources are provided out of the public purse. The state has no obligation to provide a health-care system itself, but to ensure that such a system is provided. Put another way, basic health-care is now recognised as a ’public good’, rather than a ’private good’ that one is expected to buy for oneself. As the 1976 declaration of the World Health Organisation put it: ’The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.’ As has just been remarked, in a liberal society basic health is seen as one of the indispensable conditions for the exercise of personal autonomy.
Section E
Just at the time when it became obvious that health-care resources could not possibly meet the demands being made upon them, people were demanding that their fundamental right to healdi-care be satisfied by the state. The second set of more specific changes that have led to the present concern about the distribution of health-care resources stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD1 countries, accompanied by large-scale demographic and social changes which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major(and relatively very expensive)consumers of health-care resources. Thus in OECD countries as a whole, health costs increased from 3.8% of GDP2 in 1960 to 7% of GDP in 1980, and it has been predicted mat the proportion of health costs to GDP will continue to increase.(In the US the current figure is about 12% of GDP, and in Australia about 7.8% of GDP.)
As a consequence, during the 1980s a kind of doomsday scenario(analogous to similar doomsday extrapolations about energy needs and fossil fuels or about population increases)was projected by health administrators, economists and politicians. In this scenario, ever-rising health costs were matched against static or declining resources.
1 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
2 Gross Domestic Product
Section A
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