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The hospital provides health care to the stek and injured. Jbey have government-financed^andjjropriety hospitals-Чгїіе patients a^e _admitted to hospitals or clinics staffed by consulting physicians, residents, interns and highly skilled nurses. In some hospitals pastoral care is available, and pastors visit their parishioners at any time.^Most hospitals have at least the following major medical departments and units: surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, pediatrics and general medicine. They may afso have trauma and intensive care unit, neurosurgical, renal care unit and psy­

chiatric unit. Emergency units are very special areas in the hospital. Em­ergency patients require immediate attention.

The Public Health S^rvacejn^tj^USA is the leading agency in the pol- icy^Tsupply knowledge, facilities and professionals to the health sector.

United States have the most expensive health care system in the world in dollars per capita and fraction of Gross National Product. The dynamics of health care system drives them to use more and more ser­vices that are more and more sophisticated and more and more costly. As a result, the annual rate of increase of health care expenditures serious­ly challenges the financial capability of the United States.

Most of the population have private health insurance. Approximately 75 per cent of the population have their health insurance, life insurance, disability protection and retirement benefits at their place of employ­ment. Most employers and their families now pay more than 50 per cent of the cost of health insurancef*The great cost of medical care in the coun­try and a great number of people who could not pay for it had force,d the federal government to develop two programs-Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid, started in 1966, is a federal-state program, providing free med­ical care for the poor and aged, for the blind and dependent children. Medicare, started in 1967, is a federal program providing free medical care lor aged Americans over 65, those, who in the past had the greatest med­ical expenses.

The chief scientific problems facing American medicine are the same as ЙГОзе facing the Ukrainian medicine, they are heart diseases and can- ceAThe chief causes of sufferingand death today^arecanceiLand^iseases of the heart and blood-vessels, including hypertension, stroke and ather­osclerosis. Also of major importance in America are illnesses of aging and disabilities caused by arthritis, mental diseases, drug addiction and genet­ic problems.

Serious problems continue to exist among people of different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgroundsTChildren who live near or below the poverty level see a physician less frequently than children in families with higher income. The death rate for black adults aged 25-44 years is more than 2.5 times higher than for white adults. HIV infection is the leading killer of black adults aged 25-44 years, and the second leading killer among Hispanic adults. The homicide rate is highest among black youth aged 15-24 years and is eight times higher for black youth than for white youth.

To solve all these problems is a very important task facing the health care system in the USA.

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