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The summary of the National Health Care Act as proposed in the 111th Congress (2009–2010) includes the following elements, among others: [10] Expands the Medicare program to provide all individuals residing in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and territories of the United States with tax-funded health care that includes all medically necessary care.
The PRECEDE–PROCEED model is a cost–benefit evaluation framework proposed in 1974 by Lawrence W. Green that can help health program planners, policy makers and other evaluators, analyze situations and design health programs efficiently. [1]
Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. [ 1 ] Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation ...
One municipality, San Francisco, California, has established a program to provide health care to all uninsured residents (Healthy San Francisco). [171] In July 2009, Connecticut passed into law a plan called SustiNet, with the goal of achieving health care coverage of 98% of its residents by 2014. [160]
Health status: This goal refers to the overall health of the target population, assessed by metrics such as life expectancy, disease burden, and/or the distribution of these across population subgroups. Customer satisfaction: This goal is concerned with the degree of satisfaction that the health care system produces among the target population.
National health insurance (NHI), sometimes called statutory health insurance (SHI), is a system of health insurance that insures a national population against the costs of health care. It may be administered by the public sector, the private sector, or a combination of both. Funding mechanisms vary with the particular program and country.
The Health Connector is designed as a clearinghouse for insurance plans and payments. It performed the following functions: It administers the ConnectorCare program for low-income residents (up to 300% of the FPL) who do not qualify for MassHealth [30] and who meet certain eligibility guidelines.
Federal health center grants for public agencies are capped at 5% under Section 330 of the US Public Health Service Act (as of 2022), though the rationale for this limit is unclear. [15] Publicly operated FQHCs, accounting for 7% of all FQHCs, serve 1.8 million patients and receive 5% of federal health center grants .