healthcare system
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health-care
noun[U]
uk/ˈhelθ.keər/us/ˈhelθ.ker/
the services provided by a country or an organization that involve caring for people's health and treating people who ...
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system
noun
uk/ˈsɪs.təm/us/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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This restructuring provides the opportunity, as yet not fully achieved, of transferring resources between components of thehealthcaresystem.
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Identifying the assessments that offer the greatest benefits in relation to their cost will ultimately improve the (cost-) effectiveness of thehealthcaresystem.
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The reform aims to preserve a state-guaranteed egalitarianhealthcaresystemwhile ensuring optimal use of resources by the introduction of market-type mechanisms.
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Insofar as this may imply a choice to become dependent, claims upon thehealthcaresystemare likely to result.
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Of course, in a rationalhealthcaresystem, it will be the least productive activities that are displaced first.
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One final comment is that the relationship between income and health can and hopefully will be changed by an improved publichealthcaresystem.
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The immigration wave, which is expected to continue, will constitute a major burden to thehealthcaresystem.
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Collectively, this primaryhealthcaresystemfocuses on preventing infectious disease and on treating acute and chronic disease.
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The doctors, though, reported increasingly poor support in these situations from both healthcare managers and thehealthcaresystem.
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In recent years, the federal government has often announced thorough "structural" reforms of thehealthcaresystem(cf., infra) to deal with financial problems.
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For most patients in the chronic illness trajectory, the existinghealthcaresystemdoes not provide accessible care.
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This economic analysis was performed from the perspective of the government as payer in a universal accesshealthcaresystem.
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Even in the age of evidence-based medicine, it appears to be difficult to make thehealthcaresystemimplement the results of technology assessment.
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In the late 1930s, progressive political and social forces demanded reform in thehealthcaresystem, but action was prevented by the outbreak of the war.
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Some people talk about radical privatization of thehealthcaresystem.
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Thus, the prioritization system was seen as an acceptable response tohealthcaresystemimperatives.
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In addition, this approach often does not lead to a reflection of the needs of thehealthcaresystem(38).
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Comparing the different studies is also made difficult by the differences in the viewpoint adopted and the varyinghealthcaresystem.
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If this is what hospitals are doing, one can only wonder what is happening in other parts of thehealthcaresystem.
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Each country has ahealthcaresystemthat has evolved over time, with decisions based on social and cultural preferences.
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