Title: Understanding and Organizing Health Care Systems
Abstract:Abstract As discussed throughout this text, health derives not just from a society’s health care system, but from an array of interlocking political, social, economic, medical, and cultural factors th...Abstract As discussed throughout this text, health derives not just from a society’s health care system, but from an array of interlocking political, social, economic, medical, and cultural factors that operate at personal, community, national, and international levels. Moreover, the principal in Nuences on population health, including income, education, production, social welfare programs, tax policy, transportation, and housing, are not a direct part of the health care sector at all. Within the health sector, the elements that most affect health are public health activities such as water supply and sanitation, food inspection, vector insect control, disease surveillance, reduction of industrial pollution, and regulation of pharmaceuticals. Yet most people do not take these societal and public health factors into account when they think about health policy. Instead, they are likely to consider health policy as concerned with the health care system, particularly in terms of clinical or medical care services. Health care policy, then, must be distinguished from a society’s broader health policy: health care services, particularly primary health care, form an important— but far from the sole—component of health policy.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-04-06
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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