HLST 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Care In Canada, Payment System, Contingency Theory
19 Feb 2014
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Lecture one hlst 2030 introduction friday january 10, 2014. The management challenge of delivering value in health care. 3 fundamental things need to be done/changed regarding health care all over the world: quality improvement; reducing medical errors, getting rid of infections, not compromising patients safety, integrating services. Takes many general forms but brings value into healthcare: reducing funding/costs of care; needs to have reduction in cost. Technology is critical and essential and has brought many changed to healthcare, however brings an increase to cost. Current problems of the canadian health care system: emergency overcrowding, doctor shortage, waiting times. Patients are waiting several months for hip replacements or cat scans, etc. *usa puts a lot of funding into their health care system through private enterprise; use economic paradigm (seems to be taking care of the wait time issue) The spending is not necessarily spent across health care, income-class-race is what determines how much insurance/coverage you get.
