Lesson 2: Health Care System Flashcards
According to ____, a____ is an arrangement of parts, and their interconnections come together for a purpose
Bertalanffy (1968), “system”
Health system consist of many parts:
Community
Department or ministries of health
Health care providers
Health service organizations
Pharmaceutical companies
Health financing bodies
Other organizations related to health
According to _____, _____ is the combination of resources, organization, financing and management that culminate in the delivery of health services to the population
Roemer (1991), health system
According to _____, _____ is all the organizations, institutions and resources that are devoted to producing health actions.
WHO Report (2000), health system
According to WHO, _____ is defined as any effort, whether in personal health care, public health services or through intersectoral initiatives, whose primary purpose is to _______
Health action, to improve health
What are the goals and function of health system according to WHO
- Improve the health of the population
- Improve the responsiveness of the health system to the population it serves
- Fairness in financial contribution
It is the overarching goal
Improving population health
What are the inequitable disparities in health.
Gender
Occupation
Geographic location
Ethnicity
Sexual orientation
Income
Concept that the health system provides services in a manner that people want or desire and engage people as active partners.
Responsiveness
Four vital health systems function
Health service provision
Health service inputs
Stewardship
Health financing
It is the most visible product of the health care system
Health service provision
- Managing resources
- the assembling of essential resources for delivering health
Health service input
Other name for stewardship?
Overall system oversight
It sets of the context and policy framework for the overall health system
Stewardship
This includes collecting revenues, pooling financial risk, and allocating revenue
Health financing
Different types of health financing
Revenue collection
Risk pooling
Strategic purchasing
-collection of money to pay for health care services
- general taxation
Revenue collection
- collection and management of financial resources in a way that spreads financial risk to individual to all members
- used by insurance company
- core function of health insurance mechanism
Risk pooling
Types of risk pooling
Bismarck Model (1883)
Beveridge Model (1942)
Bismarck method was named after?
Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck