HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS Flashcards
A term used to describe how a national, regional, or local health care system is organized, administered, provided, and paid for, sometimes to a circumscribed system such as that under the auspices of a specific medical and hospital insurance carrier or health maintenance organization
healthcare delivery systems
all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health (WHO, 2000)
healthcare delivery systems
organization of people, institutions, and resources to deliver health care services to meet the health needs of a target population, whether a single-provider practice or a large health care system
healthcare delivery systems
private funding by fee-for-service and private initiative and ownership, and has very little state or third-party intervention
free-market medicine system
characterized by a two-track system of financing and of healthcare delivery
free-market medicine system
Free market medicine system: identify what track system is this.
Based on individual purchasing power
Private track
Free market medicine system: identify what track system is this.
Based on welfare provision
Public track
Provides healthcare delivery in the form of a state- supported consumer service financed by taxation
socialized-medicine system/beveridge
healthcare is purchased, but the buyer is the government
socialized-medicine system / beveridge
services available at little or no additional cost to the consumer
socialized-medicine system
Free at the point of delivery and funded by general tax
beveridge model
Most hospitals are government owned; healthcare workers are employed by the government; salaries are fixed and costs of treatments are standardized
beveridge model
In private hospitals that provide a service free at the point of delivery, the hospitals get paid by the government
beveridge model
Gov’t can control what the doctor can do and what the hospital can charge
beveridge model
These ff. Countries adheres to what model?
Great Britain, Scandinavian countries, New Zealand and Spain
beveridge model
indirect government control and management of healthcare delivery
Decentralized National Healthcare System
government acts primarily to regulate the system
Decentralized National Healthcare System
Model in Germany
Bismarck model
funded by an insurance system
Bismarck model
Financing is provided by employers and employees through payroll deductions and covers the entire population
Bismarck model
tight regulatory control by the Government, there is much better control over costs
Bismarck model
Employed people will get additional private insurance to cover the top up reimbursement costs
Bismarck model
Unemployed: supported by the government to get complete coverage
Bismarck model