LESSON 3 - PRIMARY HEALTH CARE AND THE PHILIPPINE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM Flashcards
organized around people’s needs
Service delivery
that integrates health to all sectors
Public policy
Setting priorities and determining performance
targets
Planning
Designing the organization for the specific
division, unit, or service for which the manager is
responsible
Organizing
Acquiring and retaining human resources, and
developing and maintaining the workforce
through various strategies and tactics
Staffing
Monitoring staff activities and performance and
taking the appropriate actions for corrective
actions to increase performance
• Controlling
Initiating action in the organization through the
effective leadership, motivation, and
communication of managers.
Directing
Formal and legitimate right of a manager to issue
orders, make decisions, and allocate resources to
achieve desired outcomes of the organization
Authority
Duty of employee to perform the assigned tasks
Responsibility
Reporting and justification of task outcomes to
higher management by those in authority
Accountability
Managers issue orders to their subordinates
and are also responsible for results
• Line Authority
Have the power only over specific set of
activities
• Functional Authority
o Given to specialists in their areas of expertise
o Simply advise, recommends, and counsels
• Staff Authority
Refers to the concentration of planning and
decision-making to the top of the organization
• Centralization
o Delegation of planning and decision making to
the lower branches of the organization
• Decentralization
A written document provided for the direct
control of the employees
Formalization
did not decrease
the prices of most medicines and did not dismantle
drug monopoly that control prices and distribution
Cheaper Medicines Act of 2008
• Number of pharmacies nationwide: over
20,000
• Average cost of an emergency room visits:
P2,500
• Average cost of a doctor’s visit:
P500
• Number of hospitals: around
1,800
