HEALTH CARE SYSTEM - LECTURE Flashcards
-Arrangement of parts
-interconnections come together for a purpose
System
What are the parts of a health care system?
-community
-department or ministries of health
-health care providers
-health service organizations
-pharmaceutical companies:
-health financing agencies
What are the functions of a health care system?
-governance (policy making and regulation)
-health care service provision including clinical services and health promotion
-financing
-managing resources serve as the interconnections of a health system.
- defines the “combination of resources, organization, financing and management that culminate in the delivery of health services to the population”.
Roemer (1991)
“all the organizations, institutions, and resources that are devoted to producing health
actions.”
World Health Organization (WHO), 2000
- defined as “any effort, whether in personal health care, public health services or through
intersectoral initiatives, whose primary purpose is to improve health
Health Care
What are the goals of the health system?
- IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THE POPULATION
- IMPROVING THE RESPONSIVENESS OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM TO THE POPULATION
IT SERVES - FAIRNESS IN FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION
-“the overarching goal”
Improving the Health of the Population
What are the inequitable disparities in health?
-Income
-Ethnicity
-Occupation
-Gender
-Geographic location
-Sexual orientation
-preparation for resilience to future but still unknown health risks
Improving the health of population
-health status measured over entire population and across socioeconomic groups
Improving the health of population
-Health systems should strive for equity in health
Improving the health of population
-Variations and outcomes across the world, within the regions and within countries.
Improving the health of population
Disparities are most effectively reduced when they are recognized, and their minimization is an explicit normal goal.
Improving the health of population
health system provides services the way people want or desire
Responsiveness
Health system have an obligation to respond to the legitimate non-health desire and expectation of the population.
Improving the responsiveness of health system to the population it serves
Respectfulness, non-discrimination, humaneness and confidentially.
Improving the responsiveness of health system to the population it serves
Maximize people’s anatomy and control, allowing them to make choices, placing them at the of the health care system.
Improving the responsiveness of health system to the population it serves
provide social and financial risk protection in health and be fairly financed
fairness in financial contribution
paying for health care should not impoverish individuals or families
fairness in financial contribution
a fairly financed, health system is one that does not deter individuals from receiving needed care due to payments required at the time of service and one in which each individual pays approximately the same percentage of their income for needed services
fairness in financial contribution
What are the 4 vital health system function?
Health Service Provision
Health Service Input
Stewardship
Health Financing
public and private health service provision is the most visible product of the health care system
Health Service Provision
“managing resources” - assembling of essential resources for delivering health services
Health Service Inputs