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| health systems relationship with programs and determinants |
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- improve health outcomes by
- address health problems
- tackle health determinants
- strengthen health systems
- governance, finaciting
- social, cultural, economic, environment, political
- promotive, preventative, curative
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all of organizations, institutions and resources that are devoted to producting health actions
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health action- any effort whehter in personal health care, public health services, or through intersectorial initiatives, whose primary purpose is to promote, restore, or maintain health
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- service delivery
- workforce
- info
- medical technology
- financing
- leadership/governance
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| objectives of health systems |
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- protect/improve health
- provide finacial protection against the risk and consequences of illness
- satisfy people's expectations
- to do all of this efficiently
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| function of health systems |
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- financing
- public health function
- health service provision
- stewardship
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| Factors governing health systems |
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- effectiveness and quality
- equity
- social participation
- sustainability
- efficiency
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| Importance of studying HS's |
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- potential of health sytem and actual performance
- tremendous variation in outcomes among countries with same resources and possibilities
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- attainment
- performance
- attainments with what should be accomplished
- fair financing in HS means risks each household faces due to costs of HS are distributed accordin to ability to pay rather than to risk of illness
- is achievement relative to resource that is the critical measure of a HS performance
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- about 50% of med equipment in developing nations not used either due to lack of spare parts/maintenance or because health workers dont know how to use them
- private providers are used by poor as well as rich people
- rapid increase in GH partnerships (mainly via WHO)
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- cost analysis to drive efficient care
- setting priorities realistically requires great deal of info, starting with epi data
- governments need to know how to influence the health seeking behavior of target groups in need of care
- quality of service delivery needs to be ensured
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- essential for ID services that will produce most health gain for available resources, but has to be applied to individual interventions, not broadly against diseases or causes
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- functions
- collecting financial contributions
- purchasing- pooled funds paid to providers to deliver health interventions
- pooling (spread risk among participants)
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| health financing organization |
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- WHO- headin large network of public providers organized as a national health service, relying on general taxation
- social security organization
- community or provider based pooling organizations
- private health insurance fund
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- total health expenditure as percentage of GDP
- government HE as percentage of THE
- private HE as percentage of THE
- goverment HE as percentage of TGE
- health spending per capita
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| country with highest total spending per person per year on health? lowest?B |
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- highest- United States ($6,000 per person per year)
- lowest- Burundi- ($2.90 per person per year)
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| percentage of world's total financial resources devoted to health currently spent on OECD countries |
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- 80% (although it is 20% of world population)
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| percentage of funds spent on health in WHO's Africa Region that has been provided by donors |
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| percentage of GDP spent on HC in US |
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- little relation between expenditure and outcomes at macro levels
- micro studies suggest its about how you spend your money
- suggest two things
- how health system is organized is important
- better way of measuring output of the sector is required to assess perforance
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- private expenditure
- public expenditure
- out of pocket
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