Lesson 2 : Healh Care System

Health Care System (Roemer 1991)

The combination of resources, organization, financing and management that culminate in the delivery of health services to the population.

Health Care System (WHO 2000)

All the organizations, institutions and resources that are devoted to produce health actions.

Health action

Is defined as "any effort, whether in personal health care, public health services or through intersectoral initiatives, whose primary purpose is to improve health.

Health service provision

"Delivering health services is thus an essential part of what the system does but it is not what the system is" (WHO 2000)

Health service inputs

Is the assembling of essential resources for delivering health services.  Include human resources, medications, and medical equipment.

Stewardship

The overall system oversight is a governmental responsibility.        Sets the context and policy framework for the overall health system. Generating appropriate data for policymaking ranging from public health surveillance data to health system performance.

Health Financing

Includes collecting revenues, pooling financial risk, and allocating revenue.

Revenue Collection

Collection of money to pay for health care services.

Strategic Purchasing

The way most risk-pooling organizations or purchasers use collected and pooled financial resources to finance or buy health care services for their members.

Risk Pooling

Collection and management of financial resources in a way that spreads financial risks from an individual to all pool members (WHO 2000).

Bismarck model

It uses an insurance system - the insurers are called "sickness funds“ – usually financed by payroll deduction. They don’t make a profit.

Beveridge model

In this system, health care is provided and financed by the government through tax payments.

William Beveridge

Social reformer who designed Britain’s National Health Service.

Local Government Unit

Make up the political subdivisions of the Philippines.

The Philippine Health Agenda

“All for Health Towards Health for All”

• Population and individual-level interventions

• Access to health interventions through functional service delivery networks (SDNs)

• Financial freedom

The Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022

“Matatag, maginhawa, at panatag na buhay para sa lahat”

• This is the first of the four key medium-term plans to translate the vision of aspirations for the Filipinos and the country.

AmBisyon Natin 2040

•    This is a collective long-term plan that envisions a better life for the Filipinos and the country in the next 25 years.

  • Building a middle-class society where no one is poor

  • Promoting a long and healthy life

  • Becoming smarter and more innovative

  • A high-trust society

Sustainable Development Goals 2030

This is a compilation of 17 developmental goals that targets to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice and confront issues involving climate change and its effects.