GPH 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Primary Healthcare, Gynaecology, Global Health
25 May 2019
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A set of interdependent parts with the primary purpose of improving. Agencies that plan, fund and regulate health care. Those who provide specialized inputs into health care. Fairness of financial expectations of the population contribution. Raise money that can be spent on health (resource generation) Categorizing health services : politics and values of individual countries. Countries spend more money per capita on health as incomes rise. Govern and regulate the health system (stewardship) (financing) facilities and personnel are part of a government-operated healthcare system. In low/middle income countries where the private sector is not well developed, formal services will be provided by the public sector. Lowest level: medical assistants, nurses and nurse midwives. Declaration of alma-ata (1978) and the need for social and economic development to enable better health. Health is a human right: right to health, unacceptable level of health disparities. Right to participate in the planning and implementation of health care.
