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History and Principles of Public Health

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History and Principles of Public Health

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Running head: HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTHAssessment 2- PUBH 610Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH1Executive summaryHealth care is administered and managed in most countries by health organizations, which havethe sole responsibility of meeting positive health outcomes, as per their best capabilities, withinlimited funding scope. The first step in setting health priorities of a particular population is torecognize the health needs of the target population. This phenomenon has been brought in focusby existing health care reforms and system-level developments. In other words, increase inclaims on the major healthcare resources, upon comparison to the available resources requireimplementation of plans that would assist in the goal of priority setting. Scarcity of resourcescreates barriers in funding, thereby resulting in poorer health outcomes in the population. Thus,health priority-setting encompasses the act of deciding upon the health interventions that will beconducted at several levels namely, health budget, overall strategy, disease, intervention,research and drugs. This report will discuss health priority setting with regards to three mainarticles that will be supported by other evidences.
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HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH2Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Discussion........................................................................................................................................4Data comparison..........................................................................................................................4Social determinants of health.......................................................................................................5Scale of the problem....................................................................................................................7Aligning the priority with governments’ priorities and targets...................................................7Assessing financial outcomes....................................................................................................10Potential for improvement.........................................................................................................11Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11References......................................................................................................................................13
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HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH3IntroductionMajor healthcare systems have been found to face severe problems that are related toefficiency and justice, often associated with setting specific priorities. These priorities facilitatethe process of allocation of a restricted or limited pool of health resources to a particularpopulation.One of the major challenges encountered by the healthcare systems can be attributedto the scarcity or limitations in the amount of necessary resources, thereby creating difficulties toprovide all individuals with all kinds of effective interventions that they might want or need(Norheim et al., 2014). These scarcity or inadequacy of resources often raises several questionsthat pertain to efficiency and justice, in the target population. Health care rationing or prioritysetting has gained wider recognition in recent years. There is a need to explicitly address thepriority setting in the field of public health, for developing improved methods that help inallocation of scarce healthcare resources, which in turn leads to the development of publicdialogue that ensures legitimacy. There is mounting evidence for the fact that addressing thesocial determinants appropriately will help in eliminating all kinds of health inequities inVictoria (Baum & Fisher, 2014). Health inequalities were not a matter of concern for theDepartment of Health. Nevertheless, the necessity of reducing health inequities has beenacknowledged by the government. This essay will compare and contrast three different articlesthat have focus on priority settings in healthcare and will also identify the scale of the healthinequality problem and align the priorities, recognized by the researchers with the targets andpriorities of the government.
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