Healthcare Management and Policy Quiz

Health Care System

• A Health Care System is a complete network of agencies, facilities, and providers of health care in a specified geographic area.
• Every country has a health care system, which may be fragmented among different organizations.

Components of a Health Care System

• Healthcare systems are designed to meet the health needs of target populations.
• The goal of healthcare systems is to meet the healthcare needs of the target populations in an effective, efficient, and equitable manner.

Management and Administration

• Management is the organization and coordination of activities to achieve defined objectives.
• Administration determines the activities that relate to running a company, school, or other organization.
• Policy is a set of ideas or plans used as a basis for making decisions.

Management Functions

• Management is a decision-making process that translates policies into plans, implements those plans, and evaluates them to achieve better results.
• Management is a dynamic process that involves planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Levels of Administration

• There are three levels of administration: Central, Intermediate, and Local.

Levels of Health Care

• Preventive Care: School health services, Occupational health services, Physicians’ offices, Clinics, Nursing centers.
• Primary Care: Clinics, Nursing centers.
• Secondary Care: Hospitals/medical centers, Emergency departments, Medical units, Intensive care, Psychiatric facilities, Rural hospitals.
• Tertiary Care: Hospitals/medical centers, Emergency departments, Medical units, Intensive care, Psychiatric facilities, Rural hospitals.
• Restorative Care: Home health care, Rehabilitation centers, Extended care facilities.

Quality of Care

• Quality of care involves carrying out interventions correctly according to pre-established standards and procedures.
• Dimensions of quality include technical competence, access to service, effectiveness, efficiency, amenities, interpersonal relations, continuity, and safety.

Care Management

• Care management involves resource coordination, utilization management, follow-up, patient education, and clinical management.

Management Process

• The management process involves planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Planning involves defining objectives and identifying the steps to achieve them.
• Implementation involves organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.
• Evaluation involves monitoring and correcting the implementation process.

Health Care Administration

• Health care administration is the process of achieving defined goals through the guidance, leadership, and control of the efforts of a group of individuals.
• Elements of administration include planning, organization, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting, budgeting, supervising, and evaluation.

Disadvantages of Public Policy

• Public policy can be slow to influence and difficult to adapt.
• There can be unintended consequences of public policy.
• The policy process can be co-opted to achieve other purposes.

Test your knowledge on definitions, concepts, administration, and policies in healthcare management. This quiz covers topics such as organization, coordination, directing people towards goals, and the operational aspects of administration.