Definitions
Systems Framework
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100

All activities aimed at promoting, restoring, or maintaining health.

What is health care system?

100

A set of interrelated, interdependent components designed to achieve some common goals, with logically coordinated components.

What is a system?

100

The dominant health care delivery system in the U.S.

What is managed care?

100

Mostly through employers, accounts for about 55% of total U.S. healthcare expenditures, and the government finances the remaining 45%.

What is private financing?

100

Legal risks influence provider behaviors.

What is United States?

200

A key determinant of health because if genetic factors.

What is heredity?

200

Essential for health care delivery.

What is both human and non-human resources?

200

Available free of charge, to active-duty military personnel, as well as members of certain uniformed nonmilitary services.

What is military medical care?

200

Less complex and less costly, managing total expenditures with global budgets. 

What is centrally controlled health care systems?

200

Provides basic universal coverage, but citizen still purchases additional health insurance through employer.

What is Canada?

300

Began in 2020 in Wuhan, China, that affected the entire world.

What is COVID-19?

300

Responsible for actual health care delivery.

What is managed care organizations?

300

Persons with health needs but inadequate resources to address them.

What is special or vulnerable populations?

300

The ability of an individual to obtain health care when needed?

What is access?

300

Health care is financed by the government through general taxes, but health care itself is delivered by private providers.

What is Canada?

400

Provides federal support for community health centers.

What is Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)?

400

Refers to critical issues and concerns surrounding what the health services is able or unable to provide.

What is system outcomes?

400

Consists of medical and nonmedical care for individuals with chronic health issues and disabilities.

What is long-term care (LTC)?

400

Requires free competition among providers based on price and quality of services.

What is a free health care market?

400

Health care is financed by government-mandated employer and employee contributions, and health care is also delivered by private providers. Private not-for-profit insurance companies—called sickness funds—collect the contributions and pay physicians and hospitals.

What is Germany?

500

The primary goal is to expand access to affordable healthcare for more people.

What is healthcare reform?

500

Has a unique health care delivery system, but does not provide universal access.

What is the United States?

500

A coordinated network of healthcare providers and organizations that work together to deliver a full range of health services.

What is IDS (Integrated Delivery System)?

500

Places the responsibility for fair distribution of health care on market forces in a free economy.

What is the principle of market justice?

500

The infrastructure of healthcare delivery is managed by the government, as is the financing of a tax-supported national health insurance program.

What is United Kingdom?