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Comparative Health Systems Exam 1
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six building blocks of a health system
Ans: health services, health workforce, health information, medical
products/vaccines/technologies, health financing system, and leadership
and governance
-ways to measure functioning of the health system: cost, quality, access
triangle and cost, quality, access, and innovation diamond
Service Delivery
Ans: good health services are those that deliver effective, safe, quality
personal and non-personal health interventions to those who need them,
when and where needed, with minimum waste of resources
health workforce
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Ans: a well-performing health workforce is one that woks in ways that are
responsive, fair, and efficient to achieve the best health outcomes
possible, given available resources and circumstances
health information
Ans: a well-functioning health information system is one that ensures the
production, analysis, dissemination, use of reliable and timely information
on health determinants, health system performance, and health status
improvements
medical technology
Ans: a well-functioning health system ensures equitable access to
essential medical products, drugs, vaccines, and technologies of assured
quality, safety, efficacy, and their scientifically sound and cost-effective
use
health financing
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Ans: a good health financing system raises adequate funds for health in
ways that ensure people can use needed services and are protected
from financial catastrophe or impoverishment associated with having to
pay for them; it provides incentives for providers and users to be efficient
social determinants
Ans: -biology and genetics
-individual behavior
-social environment
-policymaking
-health services
-the CDC includes physical environment
determinants of population health
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Ans: -genes and biology
-health behaviors
-medical care
-total ecology
-social/societal characteristics
Prevalence
Ans: The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or
condition present in a population at a given time.
WHO role in health systems
Comparative Health Systems Exam 1
Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest
Update / Already Graded
six building blocks of a health system
Ans: health services, health workforce, health information, medical
products/vaccines/technologies, health financing system, and leadership
and governance
-ways to measure functioning of the health system: cost, quality, access
triangle and cost, quality, access, and innovation diamond
Service Delivery
Ans: good health services are those that deliver effective, safe, quality
personal and non-personal health interventions to those who need them,
when and where needed, with minimum waste of resources
health workforce
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Ans: a well-performing health workforce is one that woks in ways that are
responsive, fair, and efficient to achieve the best health outcomes
possible, given available resources and circumstances
health information
Ans: a well-functioning health information system is one that ensures the
production, analysis, dissemination, use of reliable and timely information
on health determinants, health system performance, and health status
improvements
medical technology
Ans: a well-functioning health system ensures equitable access to
essential medical products, drugs, vaccines, and technologies of assured
quality, safety, efficacy, and their scientifically sound and cost-effective
use
health financing
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Ans: a good health financing system raises adequate funds for health in
ways that ensure people can use needed services and are protected
from financial catastrophe or impoverishment associated with having to
pay for them; it provides incentives for providers and users to be efficient
social determinants
Ans: -biology and genetics
-individual behavior
-social environment
-policymaking
-health services
-the CDC includes physical environment
determinants of population health
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Ans: -genes and biology
-health behaviors
-medical care
-total ecology
-social/societal characteristics
Prevalence
Ans: The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or
condition present in a population at a given time.
WHO role in health systems
