HLTC44H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Health System, Primary Healthcare
Document Summary
Current global trends: climate change, poverty, millennium development goals say poverty has been reduced, growing disparity. Who: global state of emergency: donors, receivers everyone knows there is a problem, not called during ebola. Indicators: ways for measuring an outcome: example, life expectancy. Boundaries of health systems: health system: wider determinants of health, social determinants of health, also called complex adaptive systems, health care systems: limited to personal health care services. Health care system --> health system *midterm question (advantages and disadvantages) Determinants of health: not measurable, not quantifiable. Health care services: easier to understand and measure. Definitions: equity: fairness, access: complex term, no universal definition. Hltc44 lectures 1 to 10: responsiveness: everyone is satisfied with services, quality: Leadership/governance: risk factors, how services are delivered, risks involved in every stage of system, risks: social, political, economic factors. Frameworks: want to shift away from descriptive frameworks, need frameworks: adaptable, applied to challenges.
