GEOG 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Otto Von Bismarck, Beveridge Report, Primary Healthcare
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Who definition: all actors, institutions, and resource that undertake health actions where a health action is one where the primary intent is to improve health. Institutions: clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, agencies that set standards. Resources: drugs, first aid, funding, vaccines, world bank, imf. Functions: services, funding, governing, regulating (stewardship: understand the 3 levels of health care and how this differs from the the 4 basic components of phc. Secondary care: specialists in general hospitals: mayo clinic. Tertiary care: specialized hospitals with a wide range of specialists with high level diagnostics and surgeries: understand the common terms used to discuss health systems, including public, private, co-payments, co-insurance, premiums, etc. Private: paid for by someone other than the government. Co-payments: like a user fee, an individual pays part of the cost, but it is a flat fee. Premiums: monthly payments you have to pay to have insurance. William beveridge designed great britain"s national health service which started in 1948.
