WHO Functions and Healthcare Efficiency

10 Questions

What is a primary function of the World Health Organization (WHO)?

Assisting governments in strengthening health services

What components make up healthcare efficiency?

Medical, social, and economic efficiency

What is social efficiency of healthcare expressed in?

Achieving goals in disease prevention and improving the patient's condition

What are the socio-economic factors that affect health?

All of the above, including living and working conditions

What is NOT a main task of healthcare at the present stage?

Conducting medical research and development

What is an essential aspect of quality control activities?

Participation of all specialists in quality control activities

What is not included in medical prevention?

Treatment of diseases

What does medical statistics study?

Issues related to medicine, hygiene, sanitation, and health care

What is included in the ecological concept of health?

Assessment of the contribution to health of the external environment

What is primary morbidity?

The number of diseases first identified and registered in a given year per 1000 population

Study Notes

Main Functions of WHO

Management and coordination of international work on healthcare, development, and improvement of international standards, nomenclatures, and classifiers
Assisting governments, upon request, in strengthening health services
Encouragement and development of work to combat epidemic, endemic, and other diseases

Components of Healthcare Efficiency

Medical effectiveness
Social effectiveness
Economic efficiency
Statistical effectiveness (not mentioned, but implied as not correct)

Achieving goals in the field of disease prevention and improving the patient's condition
Improving the patient's condition and reducing morbidity
Reducing morbidity rates and increasing life expectancy
Increasing life expectancy and estimated contribution to productivity growth

Public health and factors influencing it

Socio-Economic Factors Affecting Health

Living conditions
Working conditions
Economics and political situation

Main Tasks of Healthcare

Preventing a decrease in the volume of medical and drug care
Use of financial and other resources in priority areas
Maintaining the public health sector
Increasing human resources potential (except: not mentioned)

Improving Quality of Medical Care

Improving technologies for providing treatment and preventive care
Training in quality control methods for all workers in medical institutions
Participation of all specialists in quality control activities

Medical Prevention

Carrying out vaccinations
Conducting medical examinations
(Treatment of diseases is not a measure of medical prevention)

Medical Statistics

Section of statistics studying population health
Branch of statistics that studies issues related to medicine, hygiene, sanitation, and healthcare
Set of statistical methods necessary to analyze the resources and activities of health care facilities (not mentioned, but implied as not correct)

Subject of Study of Medical Statistics

Public health information
Information on the influence of environmental factors on human health
Information on the workforce, network, and performance of health care institutions and services

Ecological Concept of Health

Assessment of the contribution to health of the external environment
Influence of natural and climatic conditions on health

Health Statistics

Infant and general mortality rates
Indicators of general morbidity
Disability indicators
(Workload of a general practitioner during an appointment at a clinic is not a part of health statistics)

Physical Development

Totality of all anthropological characteristics and the results of functional measurements
Somatoscopic signs and indicators
Body data

Primary Morbidity

Number of diseases first identified and registered in a given year per 1000 population