HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Medicine, Socialized Medicine, Health Canada

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Opposite of social medicine is free market (poor nation; access to healthcare is seriously problematic here) Secondary care: in-patient services; controls who gets access to what care. Tertiary care: hardcore specialized advance healthcare; even countries like cuba have exceptional care ; very advanced care that attends to the sickest of the sick. [note: could be a short answer question on exam] Responsibility for the provision of health care mostly falls to the provinces, however . Federal government provides health (look at powerpoint) Health canada total expenditure (2009) > billion. Branches: healthy environments and consumer safety, health products and food. Us has hmo"seach of those have their own business and each business has its own organizations. > single mothers and aboriginals, visible minorities and refugees. Canada health act has five principles (short answer exam question): In the 70s and 80s they increased billing. Kirby report: the book doesn"t do a good job in distinguishing the political differences.

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The condition of the world's economies is a moving target. The market fluctuations and global monetary values have suggested a weak, and in some cases, a collapsed economy in many parts of the world. Yet, despite these economic woes, people suddenly do not become ill or not need healthcare services simply because the economy is unstable, although some would suggest less use of the health care system if ill, especially if they are uninsured. If you were the CEO of a United States based Managed Care Organization that wished to open or operate abroad, what types of services would you want to offer, how would you offer them, and why? Keep in mind the current healthcare situation of the United States as well as countries abroad, and the current differences between the U.S. healthcare system and the healthcare systems around the world (i.e social medicine).

A big topic in the debate over potential reforms to the US healthcare system is whether or not the US should switch to a single-payer system. Indeed, we already have such a system in Medicare. Whatâs more, Medicare is larger than most (if not all) existing national health systems. As most of you know our health spending per capita is much higher in the US than in other developed countries.

Question 1: explore the difference between the cost of Medicare (for elderly in the US) versus the costs of health care for the elderly in other countries like Canada, France, or Switzerland. The question is, âHow can we make an apples-to-apples comparison?â How you could conceivably use existing information to get comparisons of the cost of healthcare for the elderly under Medicare versus care for just the elderly in some other country or countries. (Basically, how to break out just the elderly portion of the costs for the Swiss system, or the Canadians, etc.) Clearly, differences in the quality of healthcare delivery are a big issue and there are complex issues involved in comparing quality (for example, because of differences in obesity, murder rates, and genetics, itâs problematic to use population longevity as a measure of healthcare quality). But for this question you can ignore issues of quality.

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How would you define the role of primary care from the perspectives of health promotion and health protection? Why are these facets of primary care important, and how do they influence healthcare costs?

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This week we explore TCO D.
Many med students want to specialize and going into primary care is not the choice they want to make. The AMA estimates a shortage of 46,000 primary care docs by 2025 and with the aging population, this is not good. However, the healthcare reform law may change this.

http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts-and-features/fact-sheets/creating-health-care-jobs-by-addressing-primary-care-workforce-needs/index.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-08-15-primarycare11_VA_N.htm
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