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What percentage of the health workforce renewed their professional licenses but are not registered in the National Database of Selected Human Resources for Health?
What percentage of the health workforce renewed their professional licenses but are not registered in the National Database of Selected Human Resources for Health?
What is the total number of human resources for health (HRH) who renewed their professional licenses in 2020?
What is the total number of human resources for health (HRH) who renewed their professional licenses in 2020?
Which of the following correctly describes the status of the majority of HRH who renewed their PRC ID?
Which of the following correctly describes the status of the majority of HRH who renewed their PRC ID?
What is the total number of registered HRH in the National Database of Selected Human Resources for Health?
What is the total number of registered HRH in the National Database of Selected Human Resources for Health?
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What is indicated by the disparity between the HRH who renewed their licenses and those registered in the database?
What is indicated by the disparity between the HRH who renewed their licenses and those registered in the database?
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What does the term 'health systems strengthening' generally refer to?
What does the term 'health systems strengthening' generally refer to?
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Study Notes
WHO Health System Framework
- The WHO framework outlines six building blocks for a functional healthcare system
- These blocks include service delivery, health workforce, information, medical products, financing, and leadership/governance
- Each building block supports the others and impacts overall goals like improved health, responsiveness, and efficiency
Service Delivery
- Organizes and manages inputs and services to ensure access, quality, safety, and continuity of care across various health conditions, locations, and timeframes
- Aims for effective, safe, and high-quality care to those in need with minimal waste
- Includes prevention, treatment, or rehabilitation delivered in diverse locations (home, community, workplace, health facilities)
- Different types of service delivery include individual-based services (personal healthcare focused on specific recipients), and population-based services (non-personal, addressing health in groups, e.g., health promotion)
- The organization of a provider network is crucial for efficient service delivery. This involves care from primary to tertiary providers across the region (city or province level).
Health Workforce
- Includes individuals (service providers, management, and support) dedicated to protecting and improving health.
- A well-performing health workforce has sufficient competent, responsive, and productive staff fairly distributed
- Their level of skill, mix, and gender diversity influence health outcomes and service coverage
- Measures to improve the health workforce include: workforce planning, training programs, entry and exit management, and effective distribution and performance of existing workers.
- A national HRH master plan guides production, regulation, recruitment, retraining, and retention efforts.
- Data on HRH (Healthcare Resource Human) professional licenses renewed in 2020 show numbers and categories
Health Information
- Focuses on using information, intelligence, and research to enhance health systems and respond to epidemics
- This involves generating, strategically using, and developing health information and surveillance systems (standardized tools, and instruments), and compiling international health statistics
- Decision-makers must have reliable, up-to-date health information at different levels, both for routine situations and emergencies. This includes data on health determinants, health system performance, and health status
Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technologies
- Ensures equitable access to essential, high-quality medical products, vaccines, and technologies that are safe, effective, cost-effective, and scientifically sound.
Health Financing
- Secures adequate funds to ensure people have access to healthcare services, thus avoiding financial hardship or impoverishment
- Effective financing involves raising sufficient and sustainable funds to create insurance pools needed for health services
- Improving efficiency, reducing out-of-pocket payments, and promoting social protection are key components of a strong health financing system
- Major sources of health funding in the Philippines include government (taxes, shared income), social health insurance (NHIP premiums), and private insurance (PHI, HMOs, etc.)
Leadership and Governance
- Stewardship, a complex yet vital building block, involves overseeing and guiding the entire health system (public and private), with a focus on protecting the public interest through governmental actions related to health.
- It requires balancing competing political and technical needs, involving policy guidance, intelligence oversight, collaboration/coalition building, regulation, and system design focused on accountability.
- Different entities (Department of Health, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Local Government units, CHED/Higher Education Institutions, and the private sector) play roles in this process
Health Systems Strengthening
- Strengthening the six building blocks and managing their interactions is vital for equitable and sustained health improvements.
- This involves determining how to evaluate progress and implement improvements, allocate resources, and monitor systems performance.
- Securing further investment in health systems depends on ability to show progress. Resource allocation must aim at greatest need. Monitoring is essential to follow changes and trends.
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Test your knowledge on the WHO Health System Framework, which outlines the six critical building blocks necessary for functional healthcare systems. Explore concepts related to service delivery, health workforce, information, medical products, financing, and leadership/governance. Understand how these components contribute to improved health outcomes and system efficiency.