Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 5 - Climate change mitigation, Politics as Usual, Opioid epidemic
21 Sep 2018
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Pay for performance hospitals may reduce wait times and governments will pay them as an incentive for doing better. Activity-based funding instead of giving a general amount, a fund will be dedicated to reduce wait times or in a particular area. Integrated funding models help to coordinate care between different health care practitioners (ex. Pay one fee to cover everyone who plays a role in the surgery. Established centralized intake of patients you pool specialists together and send patients to the first available specialist. Increase after-hours care many patients go to the er to get primary care increasing care will reduce the burden on hospital resources. Recruit/increase pay for key human resources more interest in entering into the field. Immunization, opioid crisis, impaired driving, equitable access to pharmaceuticals. The first step in enacting policy change. Walkerton policy window to improve water safety) Led to the creation of the phac in 2004. Focusing events do not guarantee policy change.
