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HNP – Health Systems Reform Flagship Course Glossary - Updated 07.02.2021

Created Jul 02 2021, 4:27 PM by Bruce Summers

The World Bank's First Virtual Flagship Course - Building Health Systems for the Future was convented from June 7 - June 18, 2021.  It was comprised of 16 Modules, 2 to 3 Modules/Sessions wer held over 7 non-concurrent days. The following and attached is the Glossary of Terms used during this Global Health Systems Flagship Course.

HNP – Health Systems Reform Flagship Course Glossary


ACCESS
In the Flagship Framework, access is an intermediate performance goal that refers to how health services are made available to, and are reached by, the people who need them. Access combines the concepts of "effective availability", "physical availability" (see separate entries) and utilization of services.

ACCREDITATION OF HEALTH PROVIDERS
"An evaluative process in which a health care organization undergoes an examination of its operating procedures to determine whether the procedures meet designated criteria as defined by the accrediting body, and to ensure that the organization meets a specified level of quality."

ANALYSIS, ETHICAL
A process for assessing and selecting health policy according to a philosophical and values-driven point of view.

ANALYSIS, POLITICAL
A process for assessing the political factors that affect the feasibility of adopting or implementing a selected health reform.

ANALYSIS, TECHNICAL
A process of determining what resources and capacities are required to address a health problem in society, and how they should be applied, to adopt and implement health reform. A technical analysis may include epidemiological, economic, demographic, and implementation analyses.

AVAILABILITY, EFFECTIVE (OR REALIZED)
The degree to which it is possible for members of the population to find and receive appropriate health care for health needs, despite barriers such as high prices, limited hours of operation, or cultural appropriateness.

AVAILABILITY, PHYSICAL
The degree to which health goods and services (including providers, beds, and commodities) are present and usable when and where the population needs access to them.

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
A branch of economics that studies the effects of psychological, intellectual, and emotional factors on individuals' economic decision-making, particularly when those decisions would not be indicated by classical economic theory.

BEHAVIOR CHANGE
Efforts put in place to change people’s personal habits and attitudes. In public health, the goal is usually to prevent disease.

BENCHMARKING
The process of using the example (and measure) of one health system's performance (or some other external standard) to assess the performance of another one. Benchmarking is often used as the starting point for a discussion of performance problems.

BENEFIT PACKAGES
A set of services that can be feasibly financed and provided under actual circumstances in which a given country finds itself

BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES
Positive changes in health that result from measures or specific health care investments or interventions

BUDGET, GLOBAL
A payment method that sets an all-inclusive operating budget and output targets in advance. A global budget is a means of bundling health services and it creates incentives to control expenses while meeting targets.

BUDGET, LINE-ITEM
A payment method that sets a budget for each particular expense category (or “line”) based on past and projected costs. Line-item.

For more Glossary Terms - See attached file - Flagship Course Glossary 2021