GEOG 3692 Chapter Notes - Chapter online article: Primary Healthcare, Barefoot Doctor, Gross Domestic Product
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What percentage of the country is insured: privately purchased or employer-provided insurance is only provided to a small proportion of the population, 70% out-of-pocket, public financing: 1% of gross domestic product. 4. what are the costs to consumers for health care: hospice care 1,000 to ,500 per family. 5. explain some successes and some challenges of this health care system: primary health care targeted health for all, focuses on populations in most need, cost of care too high to afford. Nejm 372; 14: describe the health system in this country. Implemented in 1949: government owned health care systems, no need for insurance because health care was free. Free market economic reforms -- reduced gov role in all social and economic. In 1984: converted to a market economy and government funding of hospitals dropped. Health care services now for profit sectors physicians to operate like entrepreneurs in a capitalist economy. No opportunity to develop as independent professionals, this encouraged.
