2: Health System Flashcards
The combination of resources, organization, financing, and management that culminate in the delivery of health services to the population.
Health System
According to WHO report in 2000, _____ is all the organizations, institutions, resources, and people whose primary purpose is to improve health
Health System
What are the Goals of a Health System?
- Improving the health of populations
- Improving the responsiveness of the health system
- Providing fair health financing
the overarching goal of a health system
Goal 1: Improving the health of populations
Difference between existing health risk and emerging health risk?
Existing - cases of certain diseases are already experienced in the community.
Emerging - cases of certain disease are not/emerged again after many years in the community
Strive for equality n health by minimizing inequitable disparities.
TRUE or FALSE
FALSE.
Health System strive for EQUITY not equality
What goal of Health System responsiveness refers to providing satisfactory health services and engaging people as active partners
Goal 2: Improving responsiveness of the health system
True or False
Health systems have an obligation to respond to the legitimate and only health needs and expectations of populations
FALSE
They are also obliged to non-health needs
In Goal #2: Improving responsiveness of health system, it maximizes the people’s _____ and control
autonomy
What is the Goal 3 of the Health System?
Providing fair health financing
A goal of health system which is the ideal health system that provides social and financial risk protection in health
Goal #3: Providing fair health financing
According to WHO each indiv pays the same ____ for needed services regardless of social status
Same % of their income
What are the functions of a Health System
- Health service provision
- Health Service inputs
- Stewardship
- Health financing
In the function of a heath system in Health Financing, what are the includes of financial resources? (3)
- Revenue Collection
- Risk Pooling
- Strategic Purchasing
is any service (not limited to clinical services) aimed at improving the health of populations
Health Service
These are the most visible product of a health system
Public and Private Health Service provision
also known as managing resources
Health service inputs
also known as the overall system oversight
Stewardship
it means generating the essential physical resources for the delivery of health services
Health Service Inputs
Health Service Inputs is a responsibility of ________
Health system policy makers
What are the health services:
Medications
Medical Equipment
Human Resources
In stewardship:
1. Identifying ______
2. Generating ____
- Identifying Health priorities (allocation of resources)
- Generating appropriate Data (research for effective decision making or policy)
This function includes raising and pooling of funds/resources to pay for health services
Health Financing
it is the money earned from payments for health care services.
Revenue Collection
What are the mechanism of Revenue Collection?
*General Taxation
*Donor Financing
*Mandatory Payroll Contri
*Direct household out-of-pocket expenditures
*Personal savings
Top 10 Countries with Best Health System
- United States of America
- Switzerland
- Luxembourg
- Norway
- Andorra
- Germany
- Ireland
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- Austria