HEALTH SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

SAMMY KING BAIDEN

HEALTH (WHO Definition)
… a state of complete
• physical,
• economic,
• psychological,
• mental/spiritual and
• social well-being and
• not just the absence of disease or infirmity.
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HEALTH (WHO Definition)…cont.

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HEALTH SYSTEM (WHO Definition)
… A health system consists of all organizations,
people and actions whose primary intent is to
promote, restore or maintain health including the
efforts to influence determinants of health as well
as more direct health-improving activities.

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HEALTH SYSTEM (WHO Definition)
… a health system is more than just a hierarchy of
facilities under public ownership that provide
individual medical services.

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HEALTH SYSTEM includes:
• Mother caring for a sick child at home;
• Private providers;
• Behaviour change programs;
• Vector-control campaigns;
• Health insurance organizations;
• Occupational health and safety legislation.
• It also includes inter-sectoral action by health staff, for
example, encouraging the ministry of education to promote
female education
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HEALTH SYSTEM PRINCIPLES:
• It facilitates the coordination and cohesion of health care
services.
• It contradicts the notion of fee-for-service practise.
• The notion of pre-paid group practise is supported.
• It advocates the construction of a health care system that is
community-based and community-controlled.
• It proposes that growth of primary care be prioritised.

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HEALTH SYSTEM PRINCIPLES cont.:
• It emphasises the need of care quality assurance
• It advocates universal health care as a fundamental human
right.
• It facilitates unlimited access to providers, clinics, and
hospitals.
• It advises that, in determining health care financing
priorities, resources be provided to sustain services for the
economically disadvantaged.

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MANAGEMENT
• … is the process of accomplishing organisational
objectives through planning, organising,
directing, and controlling of human and physical
resources.

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MANAGEMENT…
• Started with Adam when he was tasked to care
of the garden of Eden
• Every person is a manager in one way or the
other
• You manage your siblings when mom goes to the
market and you’re put in charge

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MANAGEMENT is about
• Planning
• Organising
• Directing
• Controlling
• Accomplish

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ROLES OF MANAGER
• consider a Football Team Manager…
• Your best Manager?

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TEAM MANAGER IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR…
• Selecting a squad and how they will be organised for a game.
• Defining the game strategy and directing the players.
• Motivating to get the best out of your team before and
during a game.
• Youth academy or reserve player growth and progress are
encouraged through scouting for promising but
underdeveloped players.
• Buying, selling and transferring players.
• Responding to pre- & post-match interviews with the media.
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PRINCINCIPLES OF HEALTH
MANAGEMENT
• Maintaining team spirit,
• guaranteeing the proper division of labour, and
• focusing on the outcomes of the team's actions
• are typically regarded as the main guiding principles
of healthcare management. All of these 3 principles
may be attained via careful planning, coordination,
and team leadership.

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