HLTB40H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Canada Health Act, Health System, Medical Savings Account
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Aristotelian model: is useful for thinking about health care funding extremes are dangerous but the exact balance between extremes (cid:862)golde(cid:374) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)(cid:863) is much more difficult to determine. Desirable qualities in health care systems or pillars of health care: cost containment is the capacity of a system to control expenditure. Demand based mechanisms to discourage health consumers from using services. Gatekeeping all initial consultations must be made by general practioners: efficiency refers to the amount and quality of goods & services provided relative to the amount of money spent. Measures of efficiency depend on counterfactuals or speculations about how things could be otherwise. A health care system is seen as inefficient if it can be supplying more goods and services for the money being spent. Allocative efficiency a concept that assumes that an efficient distribution is one in which only those individuals who really want something & are willing to pay for it will get it.
