6675 Part 1 Flashcards
This consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health
Health system
overall health system goals:
improving health and health equity
achieving greater access to and coverage for effective health interventions
what are the system building blocks?
service delivery
health workorce
information
medical products, vaccines and technologies
financing
leadership/governance
what are the overall goals/outcomes from system building blocks?
improved health
responsiveness
social and financial risk protection
improved efficiency
____________ are those which deliver effective, safe, quality personal and non-personal health interventions to those who need them, when and where needed, with minimum waste of resources.
Good health services
T/F: Good health services delivers quality personal health inventions only
False; non-personal also
Good health services considerations
- Demand for services
- Packages of integrated services
- Organization of the provider network * Management
- Infrastructure and logistics
one which works in ways that are responsive, fair and efficient to achieve the best health outcomes possible, given available resources and circumstances
well-performing health workforce
There are sufficient numbers and mix of staff, fairly distributed; they are competent, responsive and productive.
well-performing health workforce
well-performing health workforce considerations
- Monitoring availability, distribution and performance * Training programs and education
- Organization
- Retention plans
one that ensures the production, analysis, dissemination and use of reliable and timely information on health determinants, health systems performance and health status.
well-functioning health information system
well-functioning health information system considerations
- Population and facility-based data
- Public health security data
- Synthesis and distribution
This raises adequate funds for health, in ways that ensure people can use needed services, and are protected from financial catastrophe or impoverishment associated with having to pay for them.
good health financing system
good health financing system considerations
- Revenue generation
- Financial risk-pooling
- Prioritization
- Efficiency, transparency, and accountability * Information generation
This involves ensuring strategic policy frameworks exist and are combined with effective oversight, coalition building, the provision of appropriate regulations and incentives, attention to system-design, and accountability.
Leadership and governance
Leadership and governance consideration
- Policy guidance
- Intelligence and oversight * Collaboration
- Regulation
- System design
- Accountability
ensures equitable access to essential medical products, vaccines and technologies of assured quality, safety, efficacy and cost- effectiveness, and their scientifically sound and cost-effective use.
well-functioning health system (concerning medical products and technologies)
- National policy on medicines
- Information on prices
- Manufacturing and quality control
- Procurement, supply, storage and distribution * Rational use of medicines
Considerations of a well-functioning health system
RA 6675 states that:
To promote, encourage and require the use of __________________ in the importation, manufacture, distribution, marketing, advertising and promotion, prescription and dispensing of drugs;
generic terminology
RA 6675 states that:
To ensure the adequate supply of drugs with generic names at the ________________ and endeavor to make them available for free to _____________
lowest possible cost; indigent patients
RA 6675 states that:
encourage the extensive use of drugs with ____________ through a rational system of procurement and distribution
generic names
RA 6675 states that:
emphasize the _______________ for the use of drugs, in order that health professionals may become more aware and cognizant of their therapeutic effectiveness; and
scientific basis
RA 6675 states that:
To promote drug safety by minimizing _________ in medications and/or use of drugs with potentially adverse drug interactions.
duplication
All ________________________ shall use generic terminology or generic names in all transactions related to purchasing, prescribing, dispensing and administering of drugs and medicines.
government health agencies and their personnel as well as other government agencies ;
