NationStates

Establishing Universal Standard of Healthcare
Category: Healthcare | Strength: Significant

Proposing Nation: Kravonija
Draft: 07072020-3

The General Assembly,

Knowing that members and non members of the World Assembly maintain a standard of care appropriate to their nation and region.

Concerned that the standard of care may differ between nations in the following ways;
Terminology.
Diagnostic and Treatment.
Clinical Practice.

Such variances decrease the quality of care from a lack of continuity in the medical field resulting in preventable further injury or death.

Believing that a single, universal standard would resolve this situation,

Noting that the purpose is not to establish universal healthcare but to define a common language within the medical field.

Convinced that the World Health Authority (“WHA”) is suited to establish and enforce health standards as per GAR#31.

Seeking to implement a universal standard of healthcare (“universal standard”) with practical and national sovereignty concerns:

I. Requires the WHA to establish a council of expert medical professionals to review medical publications before approving it for use as a universal standard.

II. Requires Medical terminology to have English origin in cases of international collaboration.
a. clarifying that nations operating inside their borders, without transfer of care to another nation, shall be except from this clause.

III. Mandates the minimum clinical experience hours to be set.

IV. Requires the WHA to establish and maintain a central database of blood types and their similarities.

V. Requires the WHA to establish and maintain a comprehensive database of medications detailing.

a. Indications
b. Contraindications
c. Composition
d. Origin
e. Approved species
f. Mortality

VI. Mandates WHA to publish text detailing medical knowledge of WA members detailing the differences in:

a. Anatomy
b. Biology
c. Chemistry
d. Psychology
e. Gynaecology
f. Obstetrics
g. Paediatrics
h. Cardiology
i. Neurology

VII. Mandates WHA to create and maintain a central database of treatments from various member nations and indication of WHA approval.

VIII. Mandates the WHA to assist with training, education, and continuing of medical professionals to adhere to changes in the universal standard.

IX. Requires WHA created databases to be regularly maintained and accessible to member nations with the purpose of;
a. Education
b. Treatment
c. Research
d. Diagnosis

X. Encourages nations to share and contribute to research in order to improve the quality of care in the universal standard.

XI. Emphasises that Individual nations medical care system is not adversely impacted by the universal standard but imposes a set minimum of care, guaranteeing patient care is uniform, peer-reviewed, and approved throughout WA members.

XII. Guaranteeing that individual nations medical research is not restricted or penalised by the WHA in regards to contributing to the universal standard unless in instances of gross breach of an active General Assembly Resolution.

XIII. Requires WHA and it’s division and organisations to adhere to the universal standard

XIV. Preserves the right for individual nations to impose a higher standard of care.

XV. Requires that any nation choosing to impose a higher standard of care must do so without contradicting the Universal Standard and breaching active General Assembly Resolutions.

Establishing Universal Standard of Healthcare
Category: Healthcare | Strength: Significant

Proposing Nation: Kravonija
Draft: 07072020-2

The General Assembly,

Knowing that members and non members of the World Assembly maintain a standard of care appropriate to their nation and region.

Concerned that the standard of care may differ between nations in the following ways;
Terminology.
Diagnostic and Treatment.
Clinical Practice.

Such variances decrease the quality of care from a lack of continuity in the medical field resulting in preventable further injury or death.

Believing that a single, universal standard would resolve this situation,

Noting that the purpose is not to establish universal healthcare but to define a common language within the medical field.

Convinced that the World Health Authority (“WHA”) is suited to establish and enforce health standards as per GAR#31.

Seeking to implement a universal standard of healthcare (“universal standard”) with practical and national sovereignty concerns:

I. Requires the WHA to establish a council of expert medical professionals to review medical publications before approving it for use as a universal standard.

II. Requires Medical terminology will primarily have Greek and Latin origin.

III. Mandates the minimum clinical experience hours to be set.

IV. Requires the WHA to establish and maintain a central database of blood types and their similarities.

V. Requires the WHA to establish and maintain a comprehensive database of medications detailing.

a. Indications
b. Contraindications
c. Composition
d. Origin
e. Approved species
f. Mortality

VI. Mandates WHA to publish text detailing medical knowledge of WA members detailing the differences in:

a. Anatomy
b. Biology
c. Chemistry
d. Psychology
e. Gynaecology
f. Obstetrics
g. Paediatrics

VII. Mandates WHA to create and maintain a central database of treatments from various member nations and indication of WHA approval.

VIII. Mandates the WHA to assist with training, education, and continuing of medical professionals to adhere to changes in the universal standard.

IX. Requires WHA created databases to be freely accessed by member nations medical facilities and updated regularly.

X Requires WA members to adhere to the universal standard.

XI. Encourages nations to share and contribute to research in order to improve the quality of care in the universal standard.

XII. Emphasises that Individual nations medical care system is not adversely impacted by the universal standard but imposes a set minimum of care, guaranteeing patient care is uniform, peer-reviewed, and approved throughout WA members.

XIII. Guaranteeing that individual nations medical research is not restricted or penalised by the WHA in regards to contributing to the universal standard unless in instances of gross breach of an active General Assembly Resolution.

XIV. Requires WHA and it’s division and organisations to adhere to the universal standard

XV. Preserves the right for individual nations to impose a higher standard of care.

XVI. Requires that any nation choosing to impose a higher standard of care must do so without contradicting the Universal Standard.

Establishing Universal Standard of Healthcare
Category: Healthcare | Strength: Significant

Proposing Nation: Kravonija
Draft: 07072020-1

The General Assembly,

Knowing that members and non-members of the World Assembly maintain a standard of care appropriate to their nation and region.

Concerned that the standard of care may differ between nations in the following ways;

Terminology;
Diagnostic and Treatment;
Clinical Practice;

Such variances decrease the quality of care from a lack of continuity in the medical field resulting in preventable further injury or death.

Believing that a single, universal standard would resolve this situation,

Noting that the purpose is not to establish universal healthcare but to define a common language within the medical field.

Convinced that the World Health Authority (“WHA”) is suited to establish and enforce health standards as per GAR#31.

Seeking to implement a universal standard of healthcare (“universal standard”) with practical and national sovereignty concerns:

I. Requires the WHA to establish a council of expert medical professionals to review medical publications before approving it for use as a universal standard.
a. Requires the WHA to allow an appeal of rejected publications.
b. WHA Rejected publications will not be prohibited from practising within nations borders.
c. Preserves the right of the WHA to review and change the status of previous accepted publications
d. Preserves the right of individual nations to request a delay in review to present additional evidence relevant to the publication.

II. Requires the WHA to establish language for medical terminology that is uniform throughout.

III. Mandates the WHA to assist with training, education, and continuing of medical professionals to adhere to changes in the universal standard.

IV. Mandates the enactment of minimum clinical practice hours that adheres to the universal standard.

V. Requires WA members to adhere to the universal standard.

VI. Encourages nations to share and contribute to research to improve the quality of care in the universal standard.

VII. Emphasises that Individual nations medical care system is not adversely impacted by the universal standard but imposes a set minimum of care, guaranteeing patient care is uniform, peer-reviewed, and approved throughout WA members.

VIII. Guaranteeing that individual nations medical research is not restricted or penalised by the WHA in regards to contributing to the universal standard unless in instances of gross breach of an active General Assembly Resolution.
IX. Preserves the right for individual nations to impose a higher standard of care.

X. Requires that any nation choosing to impose a higher standard of care must do so without contradicting the Universal Standard.

Anurial wrote:

Kravonija wrote:
Thank you for the feedback, it means a lot.

With clause II I am not attempting to impose a central language that medical professionals will be using but imposing a standard for terminology. Instead of having to take the time to translate different parts of the body or even medications they can use a more standard word. But I guess since there is a precedent of the WA requiring English for resolutions it would be worth pushing for English to be the common language for medical professionals.

With clause III I feel there should be some sort of minimum requirements across the board for medical professionals. That I would like a bit more input on. For instance maybe requiring doctors to have 20,000 clinical hours minimum in order to be qualified to hold a doctors license in the first place. Which would show they did practice and successfully gain experience in the field instead of just receive a degree or license from their nation.

In regards to X it probably is best to put it toward the end, i was hoping to make it so that the clauses within the document should be followed but it’s most likely redundant and I’ll for sure change it.

Perhaps a change in the title of the resolution would be necessary then? It intially appears to be an attempt to establish a minimum standard of care from every healthcare system. However, the content appears more to be an attempt to standardise the way the international community deals with health issues.

Ardiveds wrote:

Kravonija wrote:
Thank you for the feedback, it means a lot.

With clause II I am not attempting to impose a central language that medical professionals will be using but imposing a standard for terminology. Instead of having to take the time to translate different parts of the body or even medications they can use a more standard word. But I guess since there is a precedent of the WA requiring English for resolutions it would be worth pushing for English to be the common language for medical professionals.

OOC: Correct me if I'm wrong but the rule about resolutions being in english is completely a OOC thing and the rule doesn't really apply to nations IC; that is, in universe, the different nations have no need to write resolutions in english.

This might create a rather disproportionate pressure on not only species with different anatomies but also different groups of humans who have evolved with different kinds of langauge. An individual from a nation whose primary language is a bunch of clicks will find it awfully hard to even comprehend english.

Also, why would an empire with advanced tranlations technology would even need a universal terminology. I just think pushing for universal medical terminology in English is a bit too arbitrary for a multiverse as varied as this.

Araraukar wrote:

Kravonija wrote:With clause II I am not attempting to impose a central language that medical professionals will be using but imposing a standard for terminology. Instead of having to take the time to translate different parts of the body or even medications they can use a more standard word.

OOC: RL doctors use Latin for that purpose. Just so you know.

there is a precedent of the WA requiring English for resolutions

Where?

it would be worth pushing for English to be the common language for medical professionals.

And how are they meant to talk with patients who don't understand English?

For instance maybe requiring doctors to have 20,000 clinical hours minimum in order to be qualified to hold a doctors license in the first place.

Random numbers are bad.

Which would show they did practice and successfully gain experience in the field instead of just receive a degree or license from their nation.

Instead of a random number, use this explanation.

Oh, and Out Of Character (us talking as RL humans who play the game called NationStates) is shorthanded as OOC, not as OCC.