Test Bank For Health and Health Care Delivery in Canada 3rd Edition By Valerie D. Thompson 2

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,CONCEPTS OF HEALTH CARE: u u u




❖ It can be defined as multitude of services rendered
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to individuals, families or communitiesby the age
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nts of health services or professions,for the purpo
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se of promoting,maintaining,monitoring or restori
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ng health. u




❖ Such services might be staffed,organized, admi
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nistered and financed in every imaginableway,b
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ut they all have one thing in common:, people are
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being “served”,i.e diagnosed,helped,cured, edu
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cated and rehabilitated by health personnel. In m
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any countries health care is completely or largely
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agovernment function.
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,❖ Health care includes “medical care”. Many peo
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ple mistakenly believe that both are synonymo
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us. Medical care is a subset of a health care sys
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tem. The term “medical care”refers chiefly to th
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ose personal services thatare provided favour
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by physicians or rendered as a result of the phy
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, CHARACTERISTICS OF HEALTH CARE:
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 Appropriateness(relevance)

 Comprehensiveness

 Adequacy

 Availability

 Affordability

 Accessibility

 Feasibility