Health service - functions, goals, factors of development. Health care and medical care. Levels of health care. Nomenclature of medical establishment.
-Functions, goals, factors of developement and health and medical care:
Public health systems are commonly defined as “all public, private, and voluntary entities that contribute to the delivery of essential public health service within a jurisdiction.” This concept ensures that all entities’ contributions to the health and well-being of the community or state are recognised in assessing the provision if public health services
- -Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them
- -Promotion of food supply and proper nutrition
- -An adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation
- -Maternal and child health care, including family planning
- -Immunization against the major infectious diseases
- -Prevention and control of locally endemic diseases
- -Appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries
- -Provision of essential drugs
- -Levels of healt care:
- -Primary health care – family medicine, specialised outpatient care, dispensary, emergency
Levels of health care
Health care services are usually described at three levels – primary, secondary and tertiary care levels.
- -Primary level: it is the first level of contact for the patient with the health system. It deals with the most common health problems
- -Secondary level: at this level more complex problems are dealt with.
- -Tertiary care level: this is the most specialized level. It requires highly specialized health workers and facilities
Establishment:
by Dr. Zachary Botchev. The idea was to establish a comprehensive and accessible for the entire population system of healthcare to be financed by an insurance fund and to be managed in a democratic and decentralized way with the wide participation of the public and of the professional associations
by Tarek