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Health care has been used as an indicator of quality of life and social well being in various societies the welfare states come to know the effectiveness of their services by the help of this indicator. The socio economic development of a country depends upon the basic facilities it provides to its nationals. The prosperity of people and the revenue in the hand of government determines the success of a state. Mostly the failed states fail to provide proper medication, food and education facilities for its citizens. So the health care is rated high while socio economic development is analyzed by the experts.

The low cost and the quality of services available for public are also observed in this regard. The health care services involve the hospices, nursing homes, clinics, nursing staff, doctors, research, health education, pharmaceutical services and other health related professions. The quality as well as the quantity of the services must be ensured in order to make a country improve its international ranking. The developed countries have managed to provide excellent health care facilities to their citizens at relatively reasonable cost. No one compromises in this matter, neither the patients nor the hospital staff. The social workers can play a vital role in making things fixed in the developing countries. But again the system and recognition of social workers is very limited in such countries. The advancement of health science research and innovations in this regard are considered as an important thing for considering a country improving its socio economic status. In some European countries the health care service like hospitalization and medication are extremely expensive. This makes its citizens spend more on the health care.

But in United States of America people spend more on consumer items like food and luxuries. The medication is not so expensive in United States of America. Moreover, the Canadian state provides health care facilities on cheap rates to all its nationals which helps keep it a good quality of life. People find more to spend on other needs of life. Hence life is prosperous in such countries. The developing countries do have the government hospitals where the treatment of poor is done free of cost till certain limit but the quality of health care services is miserable. The cleanliness of environment and water is also an important issue of developing countries. But the people are unaware of these issues as they are trapped in low quality life and social problems.

Health care is the term which refers to the maintenance of health by controlling and managing the illness and diseases, for both mental and physical fitness. But most of us do not consider the mental disorders as a part of health. Even the social well being is included in the world health organization’s definition of health. Health is incomplete without social well being.

More over, the social problems make a person psychologically and physically ill. So it can not be excluded from the definition of health. The minor depression and tension caused by the social situations which are unfavorable are unhealthy. And every unhealthy activity will be considered as the illness or disease. Most of us have no awareness about the importance of health and its care.

The maintenance of health is necessary for us if we want to live a happy and energetic life. The social attitudes must be changed regarding health care people are not conscious of the diseases that spread by various sources. The protection from depression and anxiety is also what is health care. The need of this time is that we must have a favorable attitude towards health care. The health care involves treatment and health counseling but how many of us bother to seek such services?

The developed country citizens are more conscious of health care as compare to the developing country nationals. The developing countries usually have poor sanitation and health management facilities. Along with this they lack awareness about the importance of health care. Due to immense poverty, people of developing countries allocate very low budget to the health care services. Similar is the case with the governments of the developing nations. They spend very low amount of GDP on the health care of the citizens. The supportive attitudes can be developed only if the non governmental organizations play their role in this regard.

The non governmental organizations are the only means through which prosperity can be brought in the developing countries. The awareness of the people can be increased by conducting advertisement campaigns, door to door counseling and through the work shops. The seminars must be conducted by advocating agencies which invite the doctors and health experts who can tell the people about health standards. The education institutions especially the schools, must arrange visits of doctors and experts to guide the students about the attitude which is desirable for health care management.