PSY 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Health Care, Emergency Department, Byrsonima Crassifolia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3306
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Method they use to treat patients depends on the health system: how is it funded, government regulations, how it is all delivered. Different sources of funding, administration and delivery. Health system: def (who); everyone who is involved in improving health, broad de nition, three things. Enable the delivery of the health services: nance, lots of needed but not resources to cover everything, stewardship. Being responsible for the oversight of something that is deemed worthy. In uence what other sectors do that is relevant to positively or negatively affect health. Differ on the governmental level that health care is passed through: national/provincial level, difference in provinces means that there is no standard. Funding: public/private money, may affect how you are going to treat a patient. 3 general models that are common in industrialized countries: social health insurance model (bismark) Can be bough through employers or the gov: national health care system (beverage) Directed by the government for the entire population.