Global Health Care

Question 1

Stakeholders

Answer 1

Users
Regulators
Providers
Payers

Question 2

The health transaction

Answer 2

• Personal health needs and demands
• Provider’s services that are supplied
• How is it paid for?

Question 3

User Costs

Answer 3

Direct Costs- user fees, prescription charges
Indirect Costs- transport costs, childcare, domestic responsibilities, loss of earnings, employment or education, social stigma

Question 4

Out Of Pocket health care costs

Answer 4

• use available cash
• substitute for food expenditure
• use extended networks
• loans
• Sale of valuables

Question 5

Barriers to accessing healthcare

Answer 5

physical barriers
costs
geography
social factors
awareness/education

Question 6

Consider your impact

Answer 6

frequency of follow up
timing of appointments
costs of consultation and prescriptions
acceptability of investigations and treatment
match patient expectations
wider impact on others
- availability of resources