system by Bertalanffy - correct answer ✔✔an arrangement of parts and their interconnections come
together for a purpose.
health system by Roemer - correct answer ✔✔combination of resources, organization, financing and
management that culminate in the delivery of health services to the population
health system by WHO (2000) - correct answer ✔✔all the organizations institutions and resources that
are devoted to producing health actions
Health action - correct answer ✔✔any effort whether in personal healthcare public health services or
through intersectoral initiative whose primary purpose is to improve health
1. Improving the health of populations
2. Improving the responsiveness of the health system to the population it serves
3. Fairness in financial contribution - correct answer ✔✔The world health organization 3 main goals for
health systems
1. Health service provision
2.Health service inputs
3. Stewardship
4. Health financing - correct answer ✔✔The 4 vital health systems functions
Health service provision - correct answer ✔✔The most visible product of the healthcare system
Health service inputs - correct answer ✔✔The assembling of the sensor resources for delivering health
services. includes: human resources medications and medical equipment
, Stewardship - correct answer ✔✔The overall system oversight sets the context and policy framework for
the over all health system
Collecting revenue, pooling financial risk, allocating revenue - correct answer ✔✔Health system
financing includes
revenue collection - correct answer ✔✔This entails collection of money to pay for healthcare services
includes general taxation donor financing mandatory payroll contributions
Risk pooling - correct answer ✔✔This refers to the collection and management of financial resources in a
way that spreads financial risks from an individual to a pool of members
Bismarck model - correct answer ✔✔Uses an insurance system the insurers are called sickness funds
usually financed jointly by employers and employees through payroll deduction
Bismarck model - correct answer ✔✔this model is found in Germany France Belgium Netherlands
Switzerland and Latin America
Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck - correct answer ✔✔Invented the Bismarck model, Bismarck's
Law on Health Insurance of 1883, invented the welfare state as part of unification of Germany in the
19th cent.
Bismarck model - correct answer ✔✔doctors and hospitals tend to be private
Beveridge model - correct answer ✔✔From the report and social insurance and allied services at 1942
the beveridge report
William Beveridge - correct answer ✔✔Social reformer you design Britain's national health service
(beveridge model)
Beveridge model - correct answer ✔✔Health care is provided and financed by the government through
tax payments