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Health
The state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Health has many dimensions (anatomical, physiological and mental) and is largely culturally defined.
Health care
Services provided to individuals or communities by health service providers for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, monitoring or restoring health.
Health entitlements
Health indicators
Health inequalities
Health information systems
The generation and the use of appropriate health information to support decision-making, health care delivery and management of health services at national and sub-national level.
Health needs assessment
Health needs assessment (HNA) is a systematic method for reviewing the health issues facing a population, leading to agreed priorities and resource allocation that will improve health and reduce inequalities. (http://www.nice.org.uk/media/150/35/Health_Needs_Assessment_A_Practical_Guide.pdf)
A systematic procedure for determining the nature and extent of problems experienced by a specified population that affect their health, either directly or indirectly. Needs assessment makes use of epidemiological, sociodemographic and qualitative methods to describe health problems and their environmental, social, economic and behavioural determinants.
Health outcomes
Changes in health status which result from the provision of health (or other) services.
Health planning
Planning for the improvement of the health of a population or community, for a particular population, type of health service, institution or health programme.
Health policy
A formal statement or procedure within an institution (notably government) which defines goals, priorities and the parameters for action in response to health needs, within the context of available resources.
Health programme
An organized series of activities directed towards the attainment of defined health objectives and targets.
Health promotion
Any combination of health education and related organizational, political and economic interventions designed to facilitate behavioural and environmental adaptations that will improve or protect health.
Health sector
The sector consisting of organized public and private health services (including health promotion, disease prevention, diagnostic, treatment and care services), the policies and activities of health departments and ministries, health related
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community groups, and professional associations.
Health system
The people, institutions and resources, arranged together in accordance with established policies, to improve the health of the population they serve, while responding to people's legitimate expectations and protecting them against the cost of ill-health through a variety of activities, the primary intent of which is to improve health. Health systems fulfil three main functions: health care delivery, fair treatment of all, and meeting non-health expectations of the population. These functions are performed in the pursuit of three goals: health, responsiveness and fair financing. A health system is usually organized at various levels, starting at the community level or the primary level of health care and proceeding through the intermediate (district, regional or provincial) to the central level.
Health systems
All the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore and/or maintain health; (ii) the people, institutions and resources, arranged together in accordance with established policies, to improve the health of the population they serve, while responding to people’s legitimate expectations and protecting them against the cost of ill-health through a variety of activities whose primary intent is to improve health. (http://www.who.int/healthsystems/hss_glossary/en/index5.html)
The combination of resources, organization, financing and management that culminate in the delivery of health services to the population. A health system has many parts. In addition to patients, families, and communities, Ministries of Health, health providers, health services organizations, pharmaceutical companies, health financing bodies, and other organizations play important roles. The interconnections of the health system can be viewed as the functions and roles played by these parts. (http://siteresources.worldbank.org/HEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/Resources/281627-1154048816360/AnnexLHNPStrategyWhatisaHealthSystemApril242007.pdf)
Horizontal Accountability
Horizontal Integration
Coordination of the functions, activities or operating units that are at the same stage of the service production process. Examples of this type of integration are consolidations, mergers and shared services within a single level of care.
Hybrid Accountability
Hybrid Integration
Coordination of the functions, activities or operating units that are at the same stage of the service production process. Examples of this type of integration are consolidations, mergers and shared services within a single level of care.