Examenleerstof Flashcards
What are the two chapters in this course?
- Healthcare systems and policy
2. Health economic evaluations
Wat zijn de 3 belangrijkste onderdelen in part 1: healthcare systems and policy
- The challenges of healthcare systems
- The possible policy response
- The role of the EU
What are the 3 goals of any health care policy?
- Quality
- Solidarity
- Sustainability
Quality definition
To improve the quality of what we are doing in order to improve the health of the population.
Solidarity definition
Two people with the same health challenge deserve the same quality of care.
Sustainability definition
If we still want to offer good healthcare, we have to make sure we are not wasting money.
= duurzaamheid
What is the starting position of OECD in 2016?
Investing in health = investing in the economy
What is the economic reality that the OECD faces?
Needs are ‘infinite’, budgets are limited.
This has become more appparent with the financial-economic crisis.
What do health economics do?
- Health economic evaluations
- Burden of illness
- Health care reform (= hervorming)
The current challenges of most healthcare systems
—> FOUTU
- Fragmentation of care
- Overuse/misuse/abuse
- Unprecendented demographics
- Too expensive new technologies
- Unequal access to care —> solidarity
6 new technologies
- Regenerative medicine
- Genetics
- 3D technieken
- Telemedicine, EHealth
- VR
- Robotics
Multimorbidity definition
At least two of the following 6 conditions:
- Heart disease
- Chronic lung disease
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Arthritis/arthrosis
- Hypertension
3 typical characteristics of the health care system
- Uncertainty
- Asymmetric information
- Externalities
Uncertainty, content
Health insurance
- Moral hazard = doordat ik verzekerd ben, durf ik meer gezondheidszorg te consumeren dan nodig.
- Adverse selection
Assymmetric information, content
Possibility of supplier-induced demand —> aanbodgestuurde vraag
