SOC382 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Government Operations, Allocative Efficiency, Wield
24 Nov 2017
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Chapter 11 health care in other countries. Shift has also forced health care systems to pay greater attention to patient satisfaction and choice, while providing support for parallel systems that allows the wealthy to buy care unavailable to others. Cross-national comparisons should be aware of/avoid 2 common errors: na ve transplantation- o(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:396)s (cid:449)he(cid:374) it"s assu(cid:373)ed that a(cid:374) idea that works well in one country, can be adopted successfully and with the same positive results in another country. Fallacy of comparative difference- mistaken assumption that countries have nothing to learn from one another simply because they differ in their health care systems on one or more major dimensions. 4 indicators for evaluating the performance of a health care system: equity- refers to the fairness of the distribution of health care resources. Equity in outcomes- u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess does(cid:374)"t t(cid:396)a(cid:374)slate to u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal out(cid:272)o(cid:373)es. Thus, poor countries are spending very little on health care.
