A health system promotes, restores and maintains health. It is a complex whole made up of all the actions, actors, resources, and mechanisms involved in delivering health

2020年11月11日 · Health is the defining objective for a health system. This means making the health status of the entire population as good as possible over people’s entire life cycle, taking account of both premature mortality and disability. Unfortunately, there is no single measure of health that can accurately encapsulate the health of a population.

Health systems perform multiple functions in society – they do not merely deliver healthcare services and other interventions aimed at maintaining or improving health. They play a role in protecting households from the financial impacts of both illness and the costs of healthcare.

2024年11月27日 · Objective-oriented health systems reform stresses the importance of understanding the problem to be addressed, framing the objective needed to improve that problem, and identifying the policy instruments that can logically move and align a health system to achieve that objective.

2022年11月12日 · Health system goals are the objectives that a healthcare system sets to improve the population health and the performance of the health system. These goals can be set at different levels, from global to national to local.

Set within the political and institution-al framework of a country, a health system is “the ensemble of all public and private organizations, institutions, and resources mandated to improve, maintain or restore health.”1 This definition, along with eforts to more concretely specify the “functions”, “building blocks”, or “control knobs” of a heal...

2020年5月14日 · WHO has identified three main goals for health systems: improving the health of populations (access), improving the responsiveness of the health system to the population it serves (quality), and fairness in financial contribution (costs), i.e., the extent to which the burden of paying for health system is fairly distributed across households ...

Health systems science (HSS) is a foundational platform and framework for the study and understanding of how care is delivered, how health professionals work together to deliver that care, and how the health system can improve patient care and health care delivery. [1] It is one of the three pillars of medical education along with the basic and clinical sciences. [2]

2022年11月1日 · In this flagship report, systems for health are defined as systems ready to respond to both known and unknown future threats, hazards and risks; they address social, economic, environmental and commercial drivers of health that are critical to securing and enabling healthier societies.

Universal health coverage based on primary health care is a unifying concept; a platform for integrated, people-centred delivery of health services; and one of the most powerful social equalizers among all policy options.