Health Care Flashcards
What is primary health care?
A person’s 1st contact with the health system.
What is public health?
The protection, promotion and prevention present in the health care system.
What is medicare funded by?
Tax levy on all incomes
How much do medicare holders have to pay?
2% of their taxable income
What are the three strategies of public health?
Intelligence, intervention, infrastructure
What is the Ottawa Charter?
A document developed by the WHO in Ottawa, 1986
What are the five action areas of the Ottawa Charter?
- Building healthy public policy
- Creating supportive environments
- Strengthening community action.
- Developing personal skills.
- Reorienting health services.
What are the three strategies of the Ottawa Charter?
- Advocate
- Mediate
- Enable
What is the WHO?
The World Health Organisation is a group responsible for the health and safety of each country. It uses research and studies to create health guidelines, and they provide assistance with communicable diseases.
What are the four basic models of healthcare?
Beveridge
Bismarck
National Health Insurance
Out-of-pocket
Describe the Beveridge Model of health care
- Health care provided by Government
- Funded by tax payments
- Covers all citizens
- UK, New Zealand
Describe the Bismarck Model of health care
- Health care typically private
- Insurance system
- Covers everyone (paid by employers and employees)
- Not for profit **
- Germany, Japan, France
Describe the National Health Insurance Model
- both Beveridge and Bismarck
- private providers of health-care, paid by government-run insurance program
- covers all citizens
- Canada, Taiwan, South Korea
Describe the out-of-pocket model
- underdeveloped model
- unable to pay = no health care
- non-government organisations step in
- Africa, India, China, South-America
