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State of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not just the absence of disease or infirmity
health
All activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore, or maintain health
health system
view on healthcare system
1. Most Americans think that we need fundamental changes or total overhaul of the health care system
2. most americans satisfied with own health
3. falling trust in medical leaders
benchmarks in us healthcare
1. Growth of hospital and insurance
2. evolving role of govt
3. advances in technology
4. provider specialization
5. interest groups
fact
About 15% of Americans do not have health insurance
Moral, ethical, or legal principle considered as an underlying cause of truth, justice, morality or ethics
right
How you should be treated in the health care system,
Social movements – minority rights, HIV/AIDS patients,
Autonomy – ability to make own medical decision
individual rights
If something is a right, then government (probably federal government) needs to ensure it
societal rights
public view on right to healthcare
Many Americans support reform options, but helping the uninsured is the “most important”
About 55-60% of Americans support a national health insurance plan financed by tax dollars that pays for most medical care
fact
who is gauranteed medical care?
prison, er
right to financial access to health care
to help pay for medical care
right to medical care
to get in the door
right to health
right to be healthy
cesr - subtantive elements
availability, accessibility, acceptibility, quality
procedural elements
nondiscrimination, participation, access to remedies, and information
geographic community
where you live, where you work, where you commute
associative community
who are your friends? who are you influenced by?
ascriptive community
how do others percieve you? labels
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AUTO MECHANIC AND PHYSICIAN
price, health more critical, body more complicated, seek second opinion, relation = personal
optometry vs. nursing home
more competition in both, but less satisfaction and quality in nursing home
quality of perfect competions
lots of seller and buyers, lots of products to choose from, perfect info, free entry and exit
medical markets imperfect situation
gov't regulation, info assymetry, uncertainty, externality
patients can become customers when:
need info, have time, and can understand their problems
physicians have high status because:
education, visibility, important jobs, advance quality of medicine, $, legidimacy, positive media portrayals