1. Efficient health infrastructure is essential for a functioning society, ensuring citizens can be as healthy as possible. 2. An efficient public health infrastructure allows federal, state, and local agencies to provide essential services and prepare for and respond to health threats and challenges. 3. The United States' health infrastructure is expensive but provides poor quality compared to other nations, and focuses more on profit than prevention.

1. Discussion: Efficient health infrastructure
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infrastructureReply1Maria:Just as we need other infrastructure such as roadways, power
grids, water supply or other fundamental services necessary for our society to function well,
we need to have a network of public health “infrastructure” to form the base of our public
health services. Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated: “The success or failure of any
government in the final analysis must be measured by the well-being of its citizens. Nothing
can be more important to a state than its public health; the state’s paramount concern
should be the health of its people”.In the United States, governments at all levels (federal,
state, and local) have a specific responsibility to strive to create the conditions in which
people can be as healthy as possible.Professor KORDER NOW FOR ORIGINAL, PLAGIARISM-
FREE PAPERSReply2Just like we need an efficient transport infrastructure to facilitate a
seamless movement within and outside a given place, efficient health infrastructure is what
ensures the nation is healthy. According to Healthy People 2020, the goal of having an
efficient Public health infrastructure is ensuring that the federal, state, tribal, territorial, and
local health agencies have the necessary infrastructure to provide essential public health
services efficiently. With a sufficient public health infrastructure, communities, states, and
the nation at large will have the ability to prevent disease, promote health, and prepare for
and respond to both acute- emergency threats and chronic- ongoing challenges to health.
According to Healthy People 2020, an excellent public health infrastructure depends on a
wide range of processes such as immunizations, infectious disease monitoring, quality
drinking water, injury prevention, up-to-date information systems, and public health
organizations with the ability to assess and respond to community needs.Looking at the U.S
public health infrastructure and some of the key characteristics that would define a robust
infrastructure, I do not think our infrastructure is solid enough. Our health care system has
been described by a wide range of literature as the most expensive in the world but has a
poor quality and safety record compared to other developed nations (Squires & Anderson,
2015). Secondly, looking at the major disease burden affecting the healthcare system, I
would say that our infrastructure has been focused more on profit maximization. Most of
these conditions are preventable. I cannot understand why an important medication such as
insulin for over 30 million diabetic Americans is still a patented product and sold by a few
companies. In an article by Belluz, the inventors of insulin thought it was unethical to patent
a life saving drug and sold it to university of Toronto for $ 1. However, if the investors were
alive today, they would be shocked to death to realize that the price of insulin has been on

2. an upward trajectory and some patients have to forego their injection because of the price.
We are living in nation where some people due to their social-economic status have to
choose between seeking preventive care and their daily bread. This is not a characteristic of
a solid infrastructure. Additionally, Rosenthal (2018), highlights how our healthcare is a
huge business by noting that hospitals for long have been taking advantage of patients and
the poor in the community.Hide Discussion: Efficient health infrastructure