Nursing 4440A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wide Area Network, Health Human Resources, Information Management
16 Dec 2016
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Provincial and territorial health system priorities: an environmental scan. Heatlh spending is rising faster than the rate of economic growth. Provinces and territories are striving for healthcare that is person-centred, accountable, efficient and equitable. Person-centred: a system that integrates a patient and family perspective into the design and delivery of care. Accountable: a system that ensures transparency and responsibility for how dollars are spent and how the system performs vis- -vis population health. Efficient: a system that uses its resources to achieve results (improved health outcomes and healthcare performance) with minimum expenditure. Equitable: a system that reaches ever individual independent of, for example, their geography, socio-economic status, gender, cultural background or type of illness. The changes required to address the aging population also raise issue of financial sustainability within the system. Primary healthcare infrastructure is largely inadequate for meeting the health needs of populations, especially those with chronic diseases. = reduction in the # of hospital visits and admissions.
