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Investing in Global Health Systems Sustaining Gains, Transforming Lives (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 103-108

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From page 103...
... Child mortality rate, or under-five mortality rate: The number of children who die by the age of 5 per thousand live births per year. Civil registration: The system by which a government records the vital events of its citizens and residents.
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From page 104...
... It refers primarily to the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care. In some health systems planning it may also include public health population based interventions.
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From page 105...
... Health service: Any service aimed at contributing to improved health including population based services such as community education or vaccination as well as health care services such diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of sick people. Health services can include health education, health promotion, and environmental services such as housing, sanitation, etc., which have a known health benefit.
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From page 106...
... Out-of-pocket health expenditure: Any direct outlay by households for medical care and other goods and services whose primary intent is to contribute to improved health status. Out-of-pocket payments are those expenditures which are not reimbursable by insurers or other third parties; they can include official user fees (charges for service)
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From page 107...
... Specific tasks are moved, where appropriate, from highly qualified health workers to health workers with shorter training and fewer qualifications in order to make more efficient use of the available human resources for health care delivery. Technical assistance: A type of aid whose object is to provide lessdeveloped countries with the expertise needed to promote development.
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From page 108...
... coverage: Defined as ensuring that all people can use the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services they need, of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship. Its goal is "to ensure that all people obtain the health services they need without suffering financial hardship when paying for them" (WHO, 2012b)
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Key Terms

  • catastrophic health
  • improved health
  • health insurance
  • health spending
  • health workers

  • civil registration
  • population based
  • care services
  • child mortality
  • financial hardship

  • defining catastrophic
  • tertiary care
  • extreme poverty
  • global partnership
  • life expectancy

  • direct outlay
  • health population
  • laboratory services
  • diagnostic services
  • environmental sustainability

  • pathological laboratory
  • purchases health
  • sufficient quality
  • including population
  • development goals

  • health education
  • common feature
  • outpatient specialist
  • insurance contributions
  • primary intent


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