Is Good Healthcare Important in a Country?

When people are trying to decide where to live they think about many different factors.  Is this place going to be a good place to raise a family? Am I going to be able to find a job to support myself or my family? Is it within a friendly environment? Are there resources available to take care of me and my family? Many things impact whether people live in a certain country, state, town etc. Healthcare is definitely one of those factors. If a country does not have the resources to take care of their citizens when they get sick then the population is going to suffer. Healthcare is a huge part of a population.  People get sick everyday and if there aren’t any ways to take care of them then people are not going to want to live there. There’s more too it though than just having the resources available.  As a citizen you have to think about how the government in that population handles there healthcare system.  The treatments, medicines, doctors etc. need to be not only there but, accessible.

Starfield, Barbara. "The Importance of Primary Health Care in Health Systems." Primary Health Care Conference. Qatar-EMRO. Qatar, 2008. Speech.

Summary: This talks in detail about the need for primary health care.  It also talks about what is included in primary health care.

Analysis: This source seems very credible because it had a lot of statistics and it was a speech given at a conference for primary healthcare. This source helped because it supported my opinion about healthcare being an important factor in a country. It also gives many details as to why primary healthcare is important.  It’s even more reliable because it talks about multiple countries.