Running head: Health Care Services 1
Week One Discovery Questions
HSA 3430 Health Care Economics
September 25, 2017
State College of Florida
Health Care Services 2
Health Care Services
Global health and longevity gains and the expansion of health sectors throughout the
world are the two externals factors account for the dramatic growth of health economics as a
field. Overall improvements in well-being are related to health and longevity. It has improved
dramatically in most countries around the world, especially middle-income countries. Greater
gains are experienced by middle-incomes countries than did low and high-income countries.
Improvements in health care leads to higher income. Some other improvements include health
behaviors, environmental factors, sanitation, shifts in the occupational structure, and medical
care delivery (Sloan & Hsieh, 2012, p. 5). Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a measure of the
size of a country’s health sector relative to its national output and can be allocated to various
activities such as housing, food, transportation, health care, education, and national defense. The
