Significance of Health System
The health system, as defined in the provided texts, is a multifaceted concept encompassing the organization, resources, and delivery of healthcare services. It involves various structures and processes aimed at promoting, restoring, and maintaining health. The texts highlight its importance in disease prevention, treatment, and equitable access to care. Challenges such as limited resources, overburdened infrastructure, and the need for reform are also discussed, along with the impact of various factors, including epidemics and the role of healthcare professionals.
Synonyms: Healthcare system, Medical system, Health care network, Healthcare framework, Health organization, Healthcare infrastructure, Medical services, Health service, Public health system, Medical care system, Health management, Healthcare delivery system.
In Dutch: Gezondheidssysteem; In Finnish: Terveysjärjestelmä; In Spanish: Sistema de salud
The below excerpts are indicatory and do represent direct quotations or translations. It is your responsibility to fact check each reference.
Hindu concept of 'Health System'
In Hinduism, the Health System encompasses a collaborative approach integrating traditional medicine like Ayurveda with modern practices. It prioritizes disease prevention and comprehensive healthcare services, requiring quality improvement, patient safety, and scientific validation. Addressing underlying health issues and understanding toxins are crucial.
(1) If the underlying causes of the obesity epidemic are not addressed, it has the potential to overwhelm these throughout the world, as the text suggests.[1] (2) This refers to the organization and delivery of healthcare services, and the RCH program's implementation is based on the capability of the health system in the district.[2] (3) These systems are encouraged to integrate traditional medicine, and the new WHO global centre is focused on helping countries with this integration.[3] (4) Objectives of NABH include enhancing the health system and promoting continuous quality improvement and patient safety, according to the text.[4] (5) Today, these are more focused on managing illnesses than preventing them, as stated in the text.[5]
(1) A health system requires knowledge of the source or origin of a toxin, its development and toxicity manifestation as well as appropriate remedial measures, which are integral parts of any health system.[6] (2) These are systems that Ayurvedic practices can be integrated into, and to validate and integrate Ayurvedic practices into modern healthcare systems, rigorous scientific research becomes indispensable.[7] (3) This is a complex network of cells, organs, and chemicals that protects the body from infection, with its main parts including white blood cells, antibodies, the lymphatic system, spleen, thymus, bone marrow, and the complement system.[8] (4) The mainstream health system should integrate its health delivery strategies with AYUSH in a meaningful way, indicating a need for collaboration.[9] (5) This is a system that may be burdened by the disease if corrective steps are not taken for Thalassemia Major.[10]
The concept of Health System in local and regional sources
Health Systems encompass organizations and structures dedicated to promoting health, preventing diseases, and ensuring fair access to care. Regional sources highlight these systems' crucial role in public well-being.
(1) Organizations and frameworks that need to focus on health promotion, disease prevention, and equitable access to care.[11]
The concept of Health System in scientific sources
Health System encompasses the framework, organization, and resources delivering healthcare. It involves structures, processes, and personnel, impacting access, quality, and patient outcomes. Strengthening these systems is crucial for disease control, equitable care, and adapting to healthcare challenges, and it includes primary care, surveillance, and addressing factors like socio-cultural demands and financial pressures.
(1) The organizations and resources dedicated to delivering health services, with improvements in these systems advocated to enhance early access to antenatal care.[12] (2) This is the system that is being re-oriented to more effectively address non-communicable diseases, with the introduction of the Primary Health Care Re-engineering policy.[13] (3) These are the organizational structures that family medicine is a core component of and provides an intersection between the clinical domain of primary care and broader aims of the primary health care sector.[14] (4) The text mentions strengthening health systems, indicating a focus on improving the way healthcare is delivered and managed.[15] (5) Some participants said that the NHI would be funded through taxes and managed by a centralised government payment system, to which tax-paying citizens would contribute through various means of revenue collection, and affect this.[16]
(1) This refers to the organized provision of healthcare services, including facilities, personnel, and funding.[17] (2) Any activities responding to the tuberculosis epidemic, as recommended by the World Health Organization, should consider the availability of resources in this to respond adequately.[18] (3) These are organized structures that provide healthcare to the population, which have to cope with the issues such as inadequate facilities and underfunding.[19] (4) This is the overall structure of healthcare in South Africa, which will be impacted and reshaped by the implementation of the National Health Insurance program.[20] (5) This is the organization and management of healthcare services, and PoCUS has theoretical underpinnings of capacitation of this system.[21]
(1) This is a system that provides healthcare services, and a lack of trust in this system was one of the factors that contributed to the rejection of the screening test.[22] (2) The health system is the focus of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response, and the well-trained workforce is essential for the operation of a functional health system that can detect and respond to the leading causes of illness, death, and disability.[23] (3) The infrastructure and processes for providing healthcare, which was negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including supply shortages and medication stock-outs.[24] (4) These are structures in African countries that are considered vulnerable due to underfunding when compared to developed countries, impacting their capacity to provide adequate healthcare resources and services to their populations.[25] (5) This is the organization of healthcare services, and the study found that hesitancy to receive the vaccine could affect the health system and the communities served by healthcare workers.[26]
(1) This is the overall structure and organization of healthcare in a region, and the study examined the capacity of the Zimbabwean health system to manage hypertension and diabetes mellitus in people living with HIV.[27] (2) These are systems which have limited information on the impact of HIV/AIDS on already constrained health systems of developing countries, and scaling up has the potential to strengthen systems.[28] (3) The organization of healthcare services, where the unique needs of adolescents may not always be fully recognized.[29] (4) This encompasses the resources and entities involved in providing medical care, and the text mentions that strategies to prevent stock-outs should be a key part of strengthening the health system.[30] (5) This is the overall structure and organization of healthcare services, and the document explores how an ARV program can impact and interact with it.[31]
(1) This is a system that fewer graduates would be delivered to.[32] (2) Low-income and middle-income countries frequently possess underdeveloped and resource-limited health systems, often facing different disease burdens compared to high-income countries.[33] (3) The network of healthcare providers and resources that provide medical services, and these can be an extrinsic factor that affects stroke survivors.[34] (4) The text mentions the need in developing countries for persons with extensive experience in advisory planning, teaching, management and other skills relevant to the strengthening of health systems, including primary health care up to first hospital of referral.[35] (5) These systems can be improved by implementing PPP models, as they can create an effective, efficient, and responsive system by transferring private sector skills, innovation, and resources.[36]
(1) Integrating the program into the national health delivery system is the most critical element to its success and sustainability, which requires innovative and well-planned financial strategies.[37] (2) This is a factor in analyzing the cases, and it is considered in the study when comparing the prevalence of sexual violence in different settings.[38] (3) These are the resources and infrastructure used to provide medical care and are often strained by the pandemic.[39] (4) These are structures and processes involved in delivering healthcare, with a report evaluating their performance and offering suggestions for improvements to their function.[40] (5) Health systems are the organization and delivery of healthcare services, and they can affect CHE.[41]
(1) These are the organizations and resources involved in providing healthcare, and the global burden of tuberculosis has increased, particularly in the Southern African region, mainly due to HIV, and inadequate health systems.[42] (2) This is a network of organizations, people, and actions whose primary purpose is to promote, restore, or maintain health, and it can be affected by health policies.[43] (3) This encompasses the organization and delivery of healthcare services, and the text emphasizes the need to work together to improve outcomes and collaboration.[44] (4) This refers to the organizations and processes involved in delivering health services, and the paper suggests that the future success of One Health is about these systems embracing and managing change more effectively.[45] (5) Weak health systems are a major contributor to the persistent challenges in controlling communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, with limited resources and underutilized interventions.[46]
(1) This is a system that provides healthcare, and the text mentions one that has been ranked as the number one system in the world.[47]
(1) The health system in Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries needs policy and action changes within its pharmaceutical market.[48]
(1) This is a system that is not the only setting in which mental health services can be delivered, as other settings such as the home, family, and community are also important.[49] (2) This is a system where the CHW program requires financial support to provide Integrated Community Case Management and Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health interventions.[50] (3) A health system is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health services, and it's response to epidemics should include psychological support.[51] (4) The economic sustainability of this is impacted by the selection of medicines as essential, showing the importance of the process.[52] (5) This refers to the broader structures and organizations involved in providing healthcare services, moving away from the focus on individual patient care.[53]
(1) Strengthening health systems is a key component of the mpox containment plan, ensuring robust infrastructure and capacity for effective disease surveillance and response.[54]
(1) Innovations and policy changes are needed within the health system in Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries.[55]