Healthcare Planning
This method of organizing healthcare involves ensuring that services meet the needs of populations across different regions and demographics.
Geographic Health Planning
This process involves managing the daily activities of a healthcare facility to ensure efficient operation.
Healthcare Operations Management
A payment method where healthcare providers receive payment per service rendered, often leading to more frequent services.
Fee-for-Service
In this healthcare system, private healthcare providers compete for patients, but the government sets the rules for coverage and ensures a basic level of care.
The Bismarck Model
This theory proposes that people often make irrational healthcare choices due to biases like overestimating risks or underestimating costs.
Behavioral Economics
This type of policy focuses on improving the health of individuals by promoting behaviors like smoking cessation or physical activity.
Preventive Health Policy
This refers to methods used by healthcare managers to assess and ensure quality of care, such as patient satisfaction surveys or clinical audits.
Quality Assurance
This term refers to a method where healthcare organizations are paid a fixed amount per patient for a certain period, irrespective of the services used.
Capitated Payments
This country operates a healthcare system where most citizens are covered under a universal health insurance program funded by both employers and employees.
Germany
This is the study of how limited healthcare resources should be distributed to achieve the maximum benefit for society.
Healthcare Resource Allocation
The health management approach that plans for future healthcare needs, like predicting disease trends or the need for certain specialists.
Forecasting Health Needs
In the context of healthcare, this involves coordinating various services, departments, and healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive care.
Integrated Care Management
This model involves a publicly funded program that covers healthcare for specific groups such as low-income families, the elderly, or disabled individuals.
Medicaid
A country where healthcare services are free for citizens at the point of delivery, but healthcare providers are funded primarily by taxes.
Sweden
A principle suggesting that private markets in healthcare often fail to deliver the best outcomes due to factors like information asymmetry.
Market Failure
The process of adjusting resource allocation in response to shifts in population health or medical technology advancements
Dynamic Resource Allocation
This model is used to reduce healthcare costs while maintaining quality by managing the coordination and delivery of services in a streamlined way.
Managed Care
A financial model where the government or an employer provides a set amount to an individual for purchasing healthcare coverage
Health Savings Account (HSA)
The Blank Model is a type of health insurance system where healthcare is mostly privately managed but regulated by the government to ensure coverage.
The National Health Insurance Model
This theory posits that healthcare providers may over-provide services when they are paid per service, leading to inefficiency.
Moral Hazard
This is a healthcare planning process where financial, human, and technological resources are strategically directed towards healthcare initiatives.
Strategic Healthcare Planning
The process of ensuring that healthcare facilities comply with regulations, legal standards, and accreditation requirements.
Healthcare Compliance
A government program that provides healthcare to citizens over 65, regardless of income.
Medicare
This country is known for its “pay-as-you-go” healthcare system, where patients pay fees at the point of service and are reimbursed by insurance companies.
Japan
The concept that government intervention may be necessary in healthcare to correct inequalities in service availability and delivery.
Market Regulation