HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Adult Daycare Center, Prescription Drug, United States House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform
19 Apr 2017
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Three models of healthcare: medical model, focuses on the treatment of diseases and injuries, surgery, drug therapy, and rehabilitation are common, treatment in hospital institution, physicians have control over organization and other health professionals, social model. Canadian health act (1984: universal coverage, access to services, portability, comprehensive services, administration by non-profit public agency. Privatization of services and long term care. 2009 canada spent 182. 1 billion = 5401 per person on healthcare. Older people accounted for 44% of all provincial and territorial government healthcare spending. Private and public expenditures on the rise. Why senior healthcare is more expensive than younger peoples: More use of specialists and general practitioners. More use of rehabilitation centres and longer stays in the hospital each visit. Prescription drug use accounts for the fourth highest share of public health care costs. Polypharmacy: the use of 5 or more drugs at once to treat multiple chronic illnesses; increases risk of drug interactions.
