Markets in Health Care: The Case of Renal Transplantation

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troyen Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Organ Procurement ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
American Health Care System ◽  
Outcomes Of Care ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
State Programs ◽  
Care System

Recent developments in organ procurement have revived the much-debated role of markets in our health care system. The unique American health care system, with its presumption of universality alongside private health insurance and relatively limited federal and state programs, is in many ways consumer-driven today. We certainly tolerate more broad disparities in availability of care and in outcomes of care largely based on socioeconomic status than do many other developed countries, where notions of universal access are supported by broader public financing.

Emerging Parallels in the American Health Care and Legal-Judicial Systems

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 73-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Hadorn
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Health Care Rationing ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
American Health Care System ◽  
American Health Care ◽  
Principal Decision Making ◽  
Care System

The structure and principal decision-making processes of the American health care system have, in recent years, evolved to closely resemble those of the legal-judicial system. This transformation reflects important common values that underlie both systems, including the values of life and liberty. This Article analyzes quasi-legal features of the health care system and draws conclusions about how those features might be used to address the problem of health care rationing. It concludes that coverage rules, if properly developed, can provide the sort of objective framework necessary to evaluate claims of health care needs. This Article also demonstrates that by defining legitimate health care needs, society can thereby potentially eliminate or forestall the need to ration necessary care. This can be achieved by using carefully developed coverage rules, rather than the informal rules currently in place, in conjunction with already existing due process methods for interpreting and implementing those rules.

scholarly journals The nursing shortage: a worldwide problem

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Z. Booth
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
World Health ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Care System

A worldwide shortage of nurses has been acknowledged by the multidisciplinary Global Advisory Group of the World Health Organization. The shortage is caused by an increased demand for nurses, while fewer people are choosing nursing as a profession and the current nurses worldwide are aging. The shortage applies to nurses in practice as well as the nurse faculty who teach students. The inter-country recruitment and migration of nurses from developing countries to developed countries exacerbates the problem. Although public opinion polls identifies the nurse as the person who makes the health care system work for them, the conditions of the work environment in which the nurse functions is unsatisfactory and must change. Numerous studies have shown the positive effects on the nurse of a healthy work environment and the positive relationships between nursing care and patient outcomes. It is important that government officials, insurance companies, and administrators and leaders of health care systems acknowledge and operationalize the value of nurses to the health care system in order to establish and maintain the integrity and viability of that system.

scholarly journals The Cuban Healthcare System: An Insight

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Nisha Zahid ◽  
Farah Ahmed ◽  
Noor Israr ◽  
Akhtar Ali ◽  
Sidra Farooq ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Primary Health Care System ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Care System

All the countries in the world are struggling to improve their healthcare systems regardless of being rich or poor. Talking about Cuba, it represents an example of well-developed healthcare system and policies which is comparable to developed countries of the world. The success of Cuban healthcare system largely depends upon its strong primary health care system, proper immunization, robust public health policies, treating all the population classes equally providing them with free healthcare services. The control of infection spread and non-communicable diseases also contributes to the success of Cuban Healthcare system. We have discussed the Cuban health care system from start till the current situation and also, we performed SWOT analysis to bring the clearer depiction of the Cuban Healthcare System as it highlights the key internal and external issues which are further discussed in detail.

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