Question

Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:

• Determine the different types of hospital ownership.
• Examine the different healthcare delivery systems.
• Discuss how delivery systems relate to the concepts of public health.

Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.

1. For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
2. Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to the professional application.

Answer 1

1. Types of hospital ownerships

a. Private nonprofit - PPP based organizations run these. Few NGO's and International non-profit organizations fund and support for running these hospitals.

b. Proprietary: Privately owned and runned hospitals,

c. District: State run hospitals that majorly include secondary and teritiary health care centres.

d. County- run mostly through community funding. They include primary health care centres.

2. Types of healthcare delivery systems

a. Managed Care :  Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) that offer preventive care and other services for a monthly fee and Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) that offer a fee-for-service system.

b.Concierge Services: Requires a flat monthly payment in exchange for medical services.

c.Telemedicine: It allows patients to use phone or video technology to interact with physicians.

d. Self-Directed Services: Care focuses on the individual patient and can even allow people to recruit and hire providers for their own needs.

3. Delivery systems relating to the concepts of public health:

Nine essential health services in delivery of systems are categorised into three groups.

a. Assessment: Monitoring health status to identify community health problems; and, diagnosing and investigating health problems and health hazards in the community.

b. Policy development: informing, educating and empowering people about health issues; mobilizing community partnerships to identify and solve health problems; and, developing policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.

c. Assurance: enforcing laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety; linking people to needed personal health services and assuring the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.

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