The Application of the Free-Market Economic Model in Chile and the Effects on the Population's Health Status

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara S. Haignere
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Free Market ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Socioeconomic Conditions ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Market Economic ◽  
The Military

After the military coup in 1973, probably the most dogmatic application ever of free-market economic policies was implemented in Chile. The military junta has credited the drop in infant mortality since then to the free-market model. This article explores whether lower infant mortality rates are due to improvements in the socioeconomic conditions created by the free-market, or whether they are due to state-sponsored health care services. It concludes that the socioeconomic conditions since 1973 have generally deteriorated, while government supplemental feeding programs and maternal and child health care services have increased. It appears that the free-market has not been the primary determinant of the decline in infant mortality. Rather, state intervention appears to have been more important. Other morbidity statistics, however, indicate a decline in the population's health status since 1973.

The Impact of War on Population Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Turkan Ahmet
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Impact

The past few decades of ongoing war in Iraq has had a dramatic impact on the health of Iraq’s population. Wars are known to have negative effects on the social and physical environments of individuals, as well as limit their access to the available health care services. This paper explores the personal experiences of my family members, who were exposed to war, as well as includes information that has been reviewed form many academic sources. The data aided in providing recommendations and developing strategies, on both local and international levels, to improve the health status of the populations exposed to war.

Les Nouveaux Miserables: Modem Victims of Social Asphyxia

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 851-857
Author(s):  
David R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Preventive Services ◽  
Medical Care System ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
Care System

During the past 30 years, social and economic barriers to health care services have increased for many Americans, especially for the nation's most vulnerable populations. Health status actually has declined for certain populations during this time. Meanwhile, national attention has been focused primarily on containing health care costs and on devising strategies for reforming the financing of health care rather than strategies for achieving improvements in the health status of the population. Existing methods of financing health care services, health research priorities, the increasing centralization and compartmentalization of health care services, and the recent failure of national health reform all serve to hinder this nation's progress towards developing a comprehensive and accountable health care system focused on promoting and achieving improved health as well as treating sickness. Recent changes in the health care marketplace, however, including a growing movement toward measuring the outcomes of medical treatments and an emphasis on improving the quality of services, have increased interest among payers and providers of health care services in investing in preventive services. Health maintenance organizations and other integrated health care delivery systems are beginning to devise incentives for increasing preventive care as well as for containing costs. The transformation of the nation's current medical care system into a true health care system will require innovative strategies designed to merge the existing fragmented array of services into coordinated and comprehensive systems for delivering primary and preventive health care services in community settings. The community-Oriented Primary Care concept successfully blends these functions and has achieved measurable results in reducing health care costs and improving access to preventive services for identified populations. There is flexibility in existing funding sources to promote preventive services in various public and private health care settings and to assist in the transformation from a disease-oriented medical care system to one focused on health.

Do Patients Have Responsibilities in a Free-Market System? a Personal Perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Civaner ◽  
Berna Arda
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Market System ◽  
Care Services ◽  
System A ◽  
Free Market System

The current debate that surrounds the issue of patient rights and the transformation of health care, social insurance, and reimbursement systems has put the topic of patient responsibility on both the public and health care sectors' agenda. This climate of debate and transition provides an ideal time to rethink patient responsibilities, together with their underlying rationale, and to determine if they are properly represented when being called `patient' responsibilities. In this article we analyze the various types of patient responsibilities, identify the underlying motivations behind their creation, and conclude upon their sensibleness and merit. The range of patient responsibilities that have been proposed and implemented can be reclassified and placed into one of four groups, which are more accurate descriptors of the nature of these responsibilities. We suggest that, within the framework of a free-market system, where health care services are provided based on the ability to pay for them, none of these can properly be justified as a patient responsibility.

Assessing Low-Value Health Care Services In The Military Health System

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 1351-1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos ◽  
Cathaleen King Madsen ◽  
Amanda Banaag ◽  
Adil H. Haider ◽  
Andrew J. Schoenfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Military Health System ◽  
Military Health ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Military

Interstate Level Comparison of People’s Health Status and the State of Public Health Care Services in India

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajkishor Meher ◽  
Rajendra Prasad Patro
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Care Services

Health is an essential component of economic development and there is a strong correlation between health of human population and societal well-being. We cannot just think of the development of the human capital without the development of health and education of the people. However, it is found that although India has made large gains on the health front of its population, there exist wide variations between and within states. While states such as Kerala, Punjab and Tamil Nadu have a very developed health sector and the health indicators of these states are comparable to those of developed middle-income countries, states such as Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, etc., are almost at the level of Sub-Saharan Africa. By using a few of the key health indicators the present article makes a critical analysis of the health status of people in the 17 major states of India, the ongoing health development programmes and the present state of public health care services in different parts of the country. The article further delves into an arena of specific policy intervention measures that are required to be undertaken in order to increase the health status of people.

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