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Good health
Responsiveness to the expectations of the population
Fairness of financial contribution |
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| Functions of Health System |
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Provision of health services
Resource generation
Financing
Stewardship (how health care is regulated) |
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Primary: prevention through education
Secondary: early detection, screening, prevent progression, basic surgical treatment of sick children, diagnosis and treatment of adults
Tertiary: treatment, complicated cases/more advanced, mitigate the consequences, complicated cases, advanced emergency care, treatment of HIV |
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| Most expensive level of care |
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| Effect of not spending enough money on prevention (primary care) |
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| People who don't have insurance only go to treatment once they have symptoms (tertiary care) |
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| What goes into decision making at different styles |
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Expense
Necessary expertise
Necessary Facilities |
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Material resources: facilities, drugs/supplies, medical technology
Human resources: training HC providers, acquiring trained professionals (proper distribution)
Financing of services: raising funds, international assistance, taxes and premiums, out-of-pocket |
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community based
private insurance
social insurance (paid my government)
national insurance (paid by government but provided by private |
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| Categorizing Health Services |
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LICS: have fragmented (mixed) health systems that include both public and private providers (USA)
MICS: systems organized around a national insurance scheme
HICS: have a national health insurance system (CANADA) |
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| business/practice side of delivery health care |
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| treatment, diagnosis care (what is being delivered) |
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| measurement of effectiveness of treatment |
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| ability for an individual to get HC |
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| people taking advantage of HC |
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Horizontal: people with same condition receive same standard of care
Vertical: poorer population pay less for access to HC |
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| Progressive Health Care System |
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| poorer population pays less and either benefits or is not affected |
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| poorer population pays the same as wealthy and have a higher financial impact |
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| Public Health Care (government) |
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| non-government health insurance |
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| profit fed back into system |
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| deductible, copay, what you have ot pay |
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