PUBHLTH 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ableism

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Us healthcare system is complex and massive. It actually is(cid:374)"t a syste(cid:373: no universal health care financed by taxes, no other countries operate like the us. Its fragmented, complicated, hard to understand: no entitlement. Most other developed countries have national health insurance programs called (cid:862)u(cid:374)iversal access(cid:863: provides routine and basic health care, run by the government financed through general taxes. Medical industrial complex: science and medicine eugenics, access charity and ableism, safety population control, health desirability. The us spent 3 billion on health care in 2015: #1 hospital care, #2 physician services, #3 other personal health care, #4 prescription drugs. Ph only gets 3% of the national health expenditures. System: group of departments, organizations or agencies under a centralized administrative structure, work together in an integrated way to achieve a common goal: uses a perspective of analysis of function not form. Feedback/ control is important in the realm of ph: health care reform/regulations.

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