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Fee-for-service. Fee-for-service (FFS) is a payment model where services are unbundled and paid for separately. [1] In health care, it gives an incentive for physicians to provide more treatments because payment is dependent on the quantity of care, rather than quality of care. However evidence of the effectiveness of FFS in improving health ...
Epi Info is public domain statistical software for epidemiology developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [ 1 ] Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler is a tool, originally developed at IBM Research, for modelings and visualizing the spread of infectious diseases. It is maintained by the Eclipse Foundation and available under ...
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...
Publicly funded health care. Publicly funded healthcare is a form of health care financing designed to meet the cost of all or most healthcare needs from a publicly managed fund. Usually this is under some form of democratic accountability, the right of access to which are set down in rules applying to the whole population contributing to the ...
Single-payer healthcare is a type of universal healthcare, [1] in which the costs of essential healthcare for all residents are covered by a single public system (hence "single-payer"). [2][3] Single-payer systems may contract for healthcare services from private organizations (as is the case in Canada) or may own and employ healthcare ...
The Donabedian model is a conceptual model that provides a framework for examining health services and evaluating quality of health care. [1] According to the model, information about quality of care can be drawn from three categories: “structure,” “process,” and “outcomes." [2] Structure describes the context in which care is ...
Universal health care. Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care. It is generally organized around providing either all residents or only those who cannot afford on their ...
Spending on health care rose to 1.7 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2000, nearly triple the 0.6 percent of GDP spent in 1989. But during the past decade, improvement in health care has slowed. Paraguay spends less per capita (US$13–20 per year) than most other Latin American countries.