Introduction
Mental health is gaining primary importance in the face of the modern society as most of the people are suffering from depressions and mental illness. Even the advanced countries are not far behind in this respect. More the problems in workplace and in relationships more people are suffering from the bad effects of depressive illnesses. This is also caused as a result of temporary failure or the feelings of self blame. Even too much tension pertaining to the problems at workplace or study related pressure give rise to several types of illness. And the modern countries to combat such ill effects to personal heath are launching mental health services.
Mental health issues
If analyzed comparatively between the American and the Canada mental health situation there were few areas that needed special attention. These were health status, differences in income, access or attainment of the health care services and thereby the quality offered by the services. In regard to health status, the Americans as well as the Canadians are both in excellent health. The percentage of Americans is 85% to that of Canadians being 88%. This indicates that Canada mental health is somewhat better than the Americans. Also differences between the women of the country are also very small. About 23% of Canadian women reports of excellent health conditions whereas in America the percentage is around 25%. But the mental health issues are fairly high for people belonging to lower income groups in America than it is in Canada.
Health care systems
In a comparative study done between the health care systems between the countries of America and Canada, there are several differences in the basic policies of the two countries in terms of services provided. While Canada mental health services provide the people with universal access to all mental health services particularly access to the doctors and the hospitals. But in the US only those citizens possessing private insurance can obtain the mental health care services and afford its cost. About 85% of Canadians reports to the doctors in a regular or patterned medical checkup whereas the percentage in America is near to 80%. This difference in the percentage is due to the lower number of Americans being insured for obtaining medical health treatments. But the number of individuals using prescribed medication is higher in America than that in Canada. Also there are more Americans who experience unmet health care issues than in Canada with their Canada mental health services. And the American people suffer mainly for the cost issues of medical services in the country.
Quality of services
There exists an inherent difference between the American and Canadian assessment of the health care systems. The American assessed their health care services to be excellent while the Canada mental health service was assessed by the Canadians to be fair. Uninsured Americans are however large in number and they are also less likely to term their health systems as excellent. Also nearly 60% of the both the Canadian and the American indicated that the quality of the doctor services were excellent in their respective countries. But the greatest difference lay in the cost of the mental health care services.
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