BMED 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 88: World Health Organization, Curative Care
17 Dec 2019
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Read this article and consider possible barriers to achieving a health care system that is well-functioning! Specialist curative care = disproportionately focused on. Competing programs, projects, & institutions = fragmented. Pervasive commercialization of health care delivery in poorly regulated systems. One of the major barriers to well functioning healthcare systems = lack of finances. Graph of wealth and health expenditure = correlated (2009) shows positive trend. In general, poorer nations tend to spend less on health expenditure as the wealth (g d p) of a nation increases, health expenditure increases. Graph of the correlation between expenditure on health and outcomes (2009) with a positive plateau trend. Countries that spend less on health expenditure tend to have lower life expectancies for their populations note: as a country"s expenditures on health increase, life expectancy of its population increases. How historical events shaped healthcare in canada: urbanisation, the great depression, world wars i and ii.
