CHN 10-16 Flashcards
- Interrelated system in which a country organizes
available resources for the maintenance and
improvement of the health of its citizens and
communities. - A health system comprises all organizations,
institutions and resources devoted to producing
actions whose primary intent is to improve health.
Health System
- An organized plan of health services (MillerKeane, 1987).
Health Care System
- Rendering health care services to the people
(Williams-Tungpalan, 1981).
Health Care Delivery
The network of health facilities and personnel
which carries out the task of rendering health care
to the people (Williams- Tungpalan, 1981).
Health Care Delivery System
- It is a complex set of organizations interacting to
provide an array of health services (Dizon, 1977).
Philippine Health Care System
4 Essential Functions of Health System
- Service Provision
- Resource Generation
- Financing
- Stewardship
Health Care System Models
- Private Enterprise Health Care Model
- Social Security Health Model
- Publicly Funded Health Model
- Social Health Insurance
- Purely private enterprise health care systems
are comparatively rare - Where they exist, it is usually for a
comparatively well-off subpopulation in a
poorer country with a poorer standard of
health care. - E.g. private clinics for a small, wealthy
expatriate population in an otherwise poor
country
- Private Enterprise Health Care Model
- Where workers and their families are insured
by the state - Refers to social welfare service concerned
with social protection, or protection against
socially recognized conditions, including
poverty, old age, disability, unemployment
and others
- Social Security Health Model
- Where the residents of the country are
insured by the state - Health care that is financed entirely or in
majority part by citizens tax payments instead
of through private payments made to
insurance companies or directly to health care
providers
- Publicly Funded Health Model
- Where the whole population or most of the
population is a member of a sickness
insurance company - SHI is a method for financing health care
costs through a social insurance program
based on the collection of funds contributed
by individuals, employers and sometimes
government subsidies. - Characterized by the presence of sickness
funds which usually receive a proportional
contribution of their members’ wages. - With this insurance contributions, these funds
pay medical costs of their members
- Social Health Insurance
UNITED NATIONS MDGs
target:
values:
Target: Reduce Global Poverty And Hunger
based on the fundamental values of:
* Freedom
* Equality
* Solidarity
* Tolerance
* Health
* Respect for nature
* Shared responsibility
UN Millennium Development Goals
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Primary Function
Promotion, protection, preservation, or
restoration of the health of the people through
the provision and delivery of health services
and through the regulation and
encouragement of providers of health goods
and services(E.O. No.119, Sec 3)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
VISION:
FILIPINOS ARE AMONG THE
HEALTHIEST PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
BY 2022, AND ASIA BY 2040.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
MISSION:
MISSION:
(Guarantee Equitable, Sustainable And Quality
Health For All Filipinos, Especially The Poor, And
To Lead The Quest For Excellence In Health.
