GGR353H5 Chapter Notes -Millennium Development Goals, Secondary Sector Of The Economy, Essential Medicines
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Inequalities in the provision and utilization of health services. Collectivist: provide health care on the basis of need rather than ability to pay. Anti-collectivist: funding health care coming from private health care insurance schemes. Primary health care is provided in home, in a clinic, or health center. include basic medical attention. Range of services offered, such as prescribing immunization, screening for nutrition. Secondary care is offered in a hospital, where patients may be admitted for treatment that cannot take place in a health center or clinic. In essence, the secondary sector offers more specialized care and will often be less concerned with prevention and more with cure. Further specialist care may be referred to a tertiary center that will have facilities not available in smaller hospitals (example cancer) Developed nations are currently experiencing a health conundrum (life expectancies increase, so too do the costs of the health care system)
