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List 6 public health achievments
- -acting on the social determinants of health
- -control of infectious disease (santitation, vaccination, etc)
- -family planning
- -motor vehicle safety
- -safer and healthier foods
- -tobacco restrictions
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What are the 6 dimensions of health care quality?
- -Safety
- -Effectiveness
- -Efficiency
- -patient-centredness
- -Timeliness
- -Equity
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List 5 barriers to equity in health care
- -geographic access
- -availability (e.g. clinic hours)
- -complexity of access (e.g. multiple services)
- -affordability
- -language
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List 5 solutions that can improve equity in health services
- -geographically accessable settings
- -multi-disciplinary teams
- -Social support and more families in programming
- -health literacy and language diversity
- -Long-term sustainable programming in communities
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List some direct costs associated with health care
- -Wages
- -medications
- -diagnostics
- -equipment
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List some indirect costs associated with health care
- -transportation
- -missed work
- -child care
- -productivity
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Describe what disability life adjusted years (DALY's) are.
- number of years of HEALTHY life lost due to disability, illness, or early death
- -each illness and diability is given a weight from 0 to 1
- -apply weights to years lived with disability and add the years of life lost
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List the 4 types of economic evaluation. Are the costs considered? Are the outcomes considered (if so, how?)?
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What type of health care system does canada have with regards to payment and delivery of health care
Payment: public mostly with a little bit of private (insurance and out of pocket)
Delivery: private (e.g. fee for service)
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How would you describe the organization of most hospitals?
private, not-for-profit organizations
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List the five principles of the Canada Health Act
- Remember the "CUPPA" mnemonic with the giant cup of coffee
- 1) Comprehensiveness
- 2) Universality
- 3) Portability
- 4) Public Administration
- 5) Accessibility
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List 4 causes of escalating health care costs
- -Rising medication costs
- -Increasing frequency of surgical procedures
- -Inappropriate use of diagnostics
- -Inappropriate use of emergency departments
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List and describe three commonly measured variables in health data.
- 1) Demographics: population size, age, migration, etc
- 2) Health Status: mortality/morbidity, self-rated health, life expectancy
- 3) Health care utilization: Data sources include disease registries, hospital data, EMR's, surveys.
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