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What is a primary function of the World Health Organization (WHO)?
What is a primary function of the World Health Organization (WHO)?
What components make up healthcare efficiency?
What components make up healthcare efficiency?
What is social efficiency of healthcare expressed in?
What is social efficiency of healthcare expressed in?
What are the socio-economic factors that affect health?
What are the socio-economic factors that affect health?
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What is NOT a main task of healthcare at the present stage?
What is NOT a main task of healthcare at the present stage?
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What is an essential aspect of quality control activities?
What is an essential aspect of quality control activities?
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What is not included in medical prevention?
What is not included in medical prevention?
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What does medical statistics study?
What does medical statistics study?
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What is included in the ecological concept of health?
What is included in the ecological concept of health?
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What is primary morbidity?
What is primary morbidity?
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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)
Social Efficiency of Healthcare
- 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
Subject of Study of Social Hygiene (Medicine)
- 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
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Quiz questions about the main functions of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the components of healthcare efficiency.
