SOPHIA D. ABATAY OCT.

14, 2020
DDM1-B

CHAPTER 5: THE RELATION OF HEALTH TO 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. What are the factors affecting the demand for health services?
Demand for health services are significantly affected by numerous factors
such as illiteracy, unawareness, inexperienced, and probably the unaware of the
role as consumers of health services rather than a simple purchaser of
commodities.

2. What are the factors that affect the change in demand for health care?
The factors that affect the change in demand for health care are the
income, the price of other commodities which is very essential compared to
healthcare services increase, the price of the related commodity and healthcare
services also increase the desire for those services, influence of the economy,
etc.

3. Explain: Improved health is a measure of economic growth.

Improved health is a measure of economic growth, when everybody can
afford improved health services, then we can say that the economy is
developing. However, if economic growth is too slow to absorb then the
additions to the labor force associated with expanded health programs will result
in greater unemployment.

4. What is health insurance?

Health insurance sis a system for the financing of medical expenses by
means of contributions or taxes paid into a common fund to pay for all or part of
health services specified in an insurance policy or the law. The key elements
common to most health insurance plans are advance payment of premiums or
taxes, pooling of funds, and eligibility for benefits on the basis of contributions or
employment.

5. Why is national health information infrastructure important?

National health information infrastructure is important because it links all
practices and health practitioners as well as students in the country through the
use of computer-based communications channels.

6. Most hospitals and other health care systems are equipped with the use of
computers. What are the importance of computers?
Computer based decision support systems are customized computer
programs developed primarily to support nurses and other healthcare providers
in decision making and initial assessment of the condition. The main objective of
the computerized decision support system is to assist nurses, clinicians,
physicians, and other healthcare providers about proper decision necessary to
support human life. With the hospital departmental computer systems such as
laboratory, microbiology, and pharmacy connected to the network, institutions
generally collect and store data in a central data repository.

7. How would you relate evidenced -based decision making process to

computerized evidenced -based making process?
Evidence-based decision-making is making choices which are based on
ideas of how theory can be used to improve real world decision-making, while in
computerized evidenced -based decision making decisions will be reinforced by
factual information translated by the software that is incorporated or embedded
in the program. Through the use of statistical information systems, computerized
evidenced -based decision making processes can be integrated into the health
information system. Both processes involve combining the knowledge arising
from one’s clinical expertise, patient preferences, and the research evidence.