Study Set Content:
underserved by primary care physicians
Rural
Higher proportion of uninsured and individually insured residents than those in the urban areas
Rural
barriers to care, receive poorer quality care and disproportionate use of emergency systems
Urban
disparieties in healthcare outcomes
Urban
According to WHO, a health system consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health.
Health System
involve assurance that strategic policy frameworks exist and are combined with effective oversight, coalition-building, regulation, attention to system design and accountability.
Leadership and Governance
- Laws, policies, plans and strategies that address rehabilitation.
- Governance structures, regulatory mechanisms and accountability processes that address rehabilitation.
- Planning, collaboration, and coordination processes for rehabilitation
Leadership and Governance
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.
Financing
- Health expenditure for rehabilitation.
- Health financing and payment structures that include rehabilitation.
Financing
works in ways that are responsive, fair and efficient to achieve the best health outcomes possible, given available resources and circumstances (i.e. there are sufficient staff, fairly distributed, they are competent, responsive and productive).
Health Workforce
Health workforce that can deliver rehabilitation interventions - including
- rehabilitation medicine, rehabilitation-therapy personnel, and rehabilitation nursing.
Equitable access to essential medical products, vaccines and technologies of assured quality, safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and their scientifically sound and cost-effective use.
- Healthcare Products – Essential Medicine and Technology
Medicines and technology commonly used by people accessing rehabilitation, particularly assistive products.
- Healthcare Products – Essential Medicine and Technology
Service delivery can be defined as the way inputs are combined to allow the delivery of a series of interventions or health actions.
Healthcare Infrastructure – Service delivery
Health services that deliver rehabilitation interventions, including in specialized rehabilitation hospitals, centers, wards and units; in tertiary and secondary hospitals and clinics; in primary health care facilities and in community settings
Healthcare Infrastructure – Service delivery
Ensure the production, analysis, dissemination, and use of reliable and timely information on health determinants, health system performance and health status.
Health Information Systems
- Data relevant to rehabilitation in the health information systems, such as population functioning data, rehabilitation availability and use data, and rehabilitation outcomes data.
- Research relevant to rehabilitation policy and programs.
Health Information Systems
places that provide healthcare. They include hospitals, clinics, outpatient care centers and specialized care centers. Quality is important.
HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
- Health Promotion and illness prevention
- first level of contact between individuals and families with the health system
Primary
Prevention of complications thru early diagnosis & treatments.
Secondary
