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• HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM

  • used to describe how a national, regional, or local health care system is organized, administered, provided, and paid for, sometimes to a circumscribed system such as that under the guidance of a specific medical and hospital insurance carrier or health maintenance organization.
• HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM

  • COMPLEX AND CONSTANTLY CHANGING
• HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM

  • Broad variety of services are available from different disciplinesof health prof.
• HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM


  Access to services can be difficult due to high health care costs, limited financial resources, and limited/no health insurance.
• TYPES OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES-PRIMARY PREVENTION, SECONDARY PREVENTION, TERTIARY PREVENTION
• PRIMARY PREVENTION

  Health Promotion and illness prevention
• SECONDARY PREVENTION

  Diagnosis and Illness
• TERTIARY PREVENTION

  Rehabilitation, Health Restoration, Palliative Care
• PRIMARY PREVENTION


  The "true prevention"
• PRIMARY PREVENTION


  Applied to physically and emotionally healthy clients.
• PRIMARY PREVENTION


  Focuses on health promotion for the entire population.
• HEALTH PROMOTION


  It aims to focus on improved health outcomes for an entire population
• PRIMARY PREVENTION


  Requires collaboration among health professionals, health care leaders, and community members.
• PRIMARY PREVENTION INCLUDES

  • Primary care and health education • Proper nutrition• Maternal-child care• Family planning

  • Immunizations• Control diseases
• PRIMARY PREVENTION SETTING

  Schools• Physician’s offices/clinics • Occupational health clinics • Community health centers
• HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMS

  Lower the overall costs of health care by reducing the incidence of disease, minimizing complications, and thus reducing the need to use more expensive health care resources.
• SECONDARY PREVENTION


  Focuses on clients who are experiencing health problems or illnesses and are at risk of developing complications.
• Diagnosis and treatment of illness


  The most common services in the health care delivery system
• SECONDARY PREVENTION 


  Focus of the hospital is to provide the highest quality of care possible so patients are discharged early.
• Discharge planning


  Begins the moment a patient is admitted to a health care facility
• TERTIARY PREVENTION


  Occurs when defect or disability is permanent or irreversible
• TERTIARY PREVENTION


  Minimizing the effect of long-term disease or disability
• RESTORATIVE CARE


  Person recovering from acute or chronic illness or disability that requires additional services to return to their previous level of function or reach a new level of function limited by their illness of disability
• REHABILITATION


  Restores a person to their fullest physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic potential possible
• A person requires rehabilitation after physical or mental illness, injury, or chemical addiction
• HOSPICE 


  A system of family centered care that allows patients to live and remain at home with comfort, independence, and dignity while easing the pain of terminal illness
• Focus of hospice care is palliative care, not curative treatment
• PALLIATIVE CARE


  Level of acre that is designed to relieve or reduce intensity of uncomfortable symptoms but not to produce a cure.
• PALLIATIVE CARE


  Relies on comfort measures and use of alternative therapies to help individuals become more at peace during end of life