2015EngramiOpen access

Health care systems

Svetlana Jovanović, Srđan Milovanović, Jelena Mandić, Sinisa Jovović

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The health system is one of the most complex systems in any country. Each state has an obligation to take care and care about the health of its population. The health care system includes the health infrastructure that provides a range of programs and services, and provides health care to individuals, families and communities. The health system must ensure the physical, geographical and economical accessiblity and affordability of integrated and quality health care. It should also provide for the development of health personnel, finance sustainability, decentralization of management and financing of health care and placing the citizens at the centers of the health system. The purpose of the health care system is the preservation and improvement of human health by providing health services, modern as well as traditional medicine, in an efficient manner and at the same time accessible and acceptable to the people. Due to its importance and impact on the population of each country, as well as its large economic impact, the government implemented a series of measures in planning and managing the health care system to ensure stable funding and rational and a quality health care delivery system, and all this in order to provide within the available resources a basic health care. In all the countries, the aging of the population and the introduction of new and expensive technologies present a constantly increasing cost of health care delivery. Modern health care systems differ from each other mainly in the methods of raising funds for health care, as well as in methods of payment for the service providers in the health sector. Problems of health care systems rarely, if ever, can be solved forever. As countries develop, their health care systems must respond to new challenges.

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The health system is one of the most complex systems in any country. Each state has an obligation to take care and care about the health of its population. The health care system includes the health infrastructure that provides a range of programs and services, and provides health care to individuals, families and communities. The health system must ensure the physical, geographical and economical accessiblity and affordability of integrated and quality health care. It should also provide for the development of health personnel, finance sustainability, decentralization of management and financing of health care and placing the citizens at the centers of the health system. The purpose of the health care system is the preservation and improvement of human health by providing health services, modern as well as traditional medicine, in an efficient manner and at the same time accessible and acceptable to the people. Due to its importance and impact on the population of each country, as well as its large economic impact, the government implemented a series of measures in planning and managing the health care system to ensure stable funding and rational and a quality health care delivery system, and all this in order to provide within the available resources a basic health care. In all the countries, the aging of the population and the introduction of new and expensive technologies present a constantly increasing cost of health care delivery. Modern health care systems differ from each other mainly in the methods of raising funds for health care, as well as in methods of payment for the service providers in the health sector. Problems of health care systems rarely, if ever, can be solved forever. As countries develop, their health care systems must respond to new challenges.

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The health system is one of the most complex systems in any country. Each state has an obligation to take care and care about the health of its population. The health care system includes the health infrastructure that provides a range of programs and services, and provides health care to individuals, families and communities. The health system must ensure the physical, geographical and economical accessiblity and affordability of integrated and quality health care. It should also provide for the development of health personnel, finance sustainability, decentralization of management and financing of health care and placing the citizens at the centers of the health system. The purpose of the health care system is the preservation and improvement of human health by providing health services, modern as well as traditional medicine, in an efficient manner and at the same time accessible and acceptable to the people. Due to its importance and impact on the population of each country, as well as its large economic impact, the government implemented a series of measures in planning and managing the health care system to ensure stable funding and rational and a quality health care delivery system, and all this in order to provide within the available resources a basic health care. In all the countries, the aging of the population and the introduction of new and expensive technologies present a constantly increasing cost of health care delivery. Modern health care systems differ from each other mainly in the methods of raising funds for health care, as well as in methods of payment for the service providers in the health sector. Problems of health care systems rarely, if ever, can be solved forever. As countries develop, their health care systems must respond to new challenges.

Key concepts: Health care, HRHIS, Business, Health policy, International health, Health law, Population, Health promotion

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