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Use of health services: Analysis and regulation - Coggle Diagram
Use of health services: Analysis and regulation
factors that determine the demand for health care / consumption of care
Consumer behavior
The need felt
Influence of gender
Influence of age
Influence of the environment and socio-economic level
Severity and frequency
Psychological factors
Socio-professional category (rural < urban in general)
Distance from the health care center
Time availability to seek medical care
Educational attainment, medical and health background
Household structure (e.g. in France, members of households with 2 persons consume twice as much care per person as members of households with 5 to 9 persons)
Economic factors
social insurance coverage
resources of patients and the cost of services
factors that determine the supply of care/Production of care
Scientific and technical progress
The encouragement by the private sector or by the public authorities of technological research
The training policies for health personnel
The socialization of the financing of health expenditure
Political considerations push local elected officials
particularities of the medical economy compared to the market economy
when meeting with a health professional
Patient
situation of uncertainty
about the effect of this health service on his health condition
about the choice of service he should receive to solve his problem
Doctor
Trustworthy + ensure the patient
on the choice of the service
on the effect of the latter on the desired improvement of his health
The characteristics of the different markets
The characteristics of a true market
Free access of sellers and buyers
Freedom of choice for the buyer
Price fixing set by the interplay of supply and demand
Sellers seek to maximize their income
Characteristics of the medical economy
Non-market economy
consumer is dependent on the provider for the assessment of the quantity and nature of the care
opinion of professionals is initially independent of financial considerations
Advertising is forbidden
prices are not totally free
One cannot criticize colleagues in front of patients
General orientation towards a non-profit goal
Productivity gains
Costs increase in a way that does not correlate with the increase in results but rather labor hours
Economy related to the satisfaction of a particular need
Medical care = necessity
Randomness of the occurrence of the disease
Difficulties in distinguishing between the consumption and investment aspects of these expenditures
Money spent on health care = investment ?