Most people should probably think whether cleaning the environment is the most important thing to enhance the public health care. Some people would agree with this issue. However, I strongly disagree with it, and believe that cleaning the environment is not fundamental factor to improve the public health care. There are two major factors; to establish medical S.O.C and to educate medical knowledge.
First, construction of social infra is necessary for government to increase the public health level. Some people might say that if the environment would not be polluted, we do not have to establish medical S.O.C. However, although considering situation 500 years ago, we need medical S.O.C. Even though there were no pollutions in the world 500 years ago, life span of that time is shorter than life span of present since there was no public hospital and public disease system. Illness caused by pollutions is only a few fraction of total disease. It is through medical S.O.C that government prolongs the life span of people. In addition, as society is getting complex, there are many illness. People should spend the fortune to cure their disease, and if they do not have enough money to cure their disease, they could be dead. However, government could save the people’s life through medical insurance. Safe guard of ill people is medical S.O.C instead of clean air, water, and land.
Moreover, educating medical knowledge to the public make people living longer. In a sense, it is true that the clean environment makes people having healthy life. However. from washing hands before having a meal to go to hospital if someone is painful, people can be living longer by learning medical knowledge. A few hundred years ago, people were died by pathogens that can be prevented only by washing hand before taking a meal. Many people were dead by pathogen, and nobody did know the reason of this death. By knowing medical knowledge, people prevent pathogen from infecting their body only through washing hands. Besides, people were not go to hospital when they did undergo pains. They were used to meet father or witch to depend on a bless of god. Their disease could be cured by a few meetings with doctors. Because Prevailing medical knowledge encourage people to have living longer, governments should need to educate about medical knowledge to the public.
In conclusion, cleaning the environment is not the most important thing for government to take care the public health. It is through constructing medical S.O.C and educating people to medical knowledge that governments enhance the public health. |