HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Generic Drug, Doha Declaration, Atorvastatin
Document Summary
Lecture 6: doctors, drugs, and global health: martin luther king jr. = of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. Ceos: services outsourced to hmos and mcos, running of healthcare on prevention and integrative services. Incentives present in hmos and mcos: lower cost, greater efficiency, better quality care w/market- based health care which has not occurred in the us. With the growth of tncs and economic growth has led to more privatized healthcare. Explicit rationing= cutting services that are considered unnecessary which is problematic because it reduces access and quality of care. Make profit: evolved in the us around the time of welfare reforms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Increase in costs and spending: administrative costs, resulted in poorer quality care, widespread rationing has increased costs and fees which leads to unequal access, important issue of noncompliance, rising number of uninsured people.
