APHS 20003 Global Healthcare Systems - Introduction to Health Systems

Vocabulary flashcards covering health system definitions, WHO building blocks, performance frameworks, behavioral models, and global development goals from the lecture notes.

Health System (WHO definition)

The totality of organizations, institutions, and resources whose primary purpose is to improve health.

Health (Modern Public Health)

A state that includes physical, mental, and social well-being, moving beyond the traditional definition of the absence of disease.

System

An organized set of components—human, material, financial, and informational—that interact to achieve a shared purpose.

Inputs (Health System)

Resources such as human resources, technology, financing, patients, healthcare workers, and supplies required to produce health services.

Processes (Health System)

The transformation of inputs into outputs through diagnosis, treatment, health promotion, and disease prevention.

Outputs (Health System)

Services and products generated by a health system that improve population health.

Service Delivery

One of the six WHO building blocks, defined as the provision of effective, safe, quality health services when and where needed.

Health Workforce

One of the six WHO building blocks, defined as adequate numbers of trained and motivated staff.

Health Information Systems

One of the six WHO building blocks, defined as reliable data collection and dissemination to inform policy and practice.

Medical Technologies

One of the six WHO building blocks, defined as access to essential medicines, vaccines, and devices.

Health Financing

One of the six WHO building blocks, defined as sustainable funding mechanisms ensuring universal coverage.

Leadership and Governance

One of the six WHO building blocks, defined as effective oversight, accountability, and strategic direction.

Iron Triangle

A performance framework highlighting the tensions and trade-offs among three dimensions: cost, quality, and access.

Diamond Model

A model created by adding innovation to the Iron Triangle to emphasize adaptive capacity.

Health in All Policies (HiAP)

An approach endorsed at the 2013 Helsinki Conference that integrates health considerations into policymaking across sectors to promote health equity.

Andersen Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations

A framework that examines how predisposing, enabling, and need-based factors influence healthcare access and outcomes.

Predisposing Factors

Factors in the Andersen Behavioral Model including demographics, social structures, and health beliefs.

Enabling Factors

Resources in the Andersen Behavioral Model such as income, insurance, and community support.

Need Factors

Factors in the Andersen Behavioral Model consisting of perceived or evaluated health needs.

Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG Goal 3)

A United Nations goal to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.