Sociology 2179A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Health System, Universal Design, Health Insurance Mandate
16 Apr 2016
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Describe indicators used to assess the overall health care performance of a country. Evaluate how canada compares with other countries in terms of health care performance. Describe health care systems in the united states, england, germany and china. Convergence hypothesis: health care systems become increasingly similar over ime because of similar scieniic, technological, economic, and epidemiological pressures. 85% of the world"s health care: among high income countries, the united states is the costliest, accouning for. Eiciency: occurs when resources allocated to health care are spent in the best possible way to achieve health-related outcomes, two types of eiciency, technical eiciency: Producing equal or beter outcomes at lower cost. Prefer low-cost and high-impact intervenion over high-cost and low- impact intervenions. Relaive to the united states, canada is much more eicient. Administraive costs are are approximately four imes higher in the us than in canada.
