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Beyond Managing Healthcare Risks
Author(s) -
SANTOSBURGOA CARLOS
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1371.051
Subject(s) - business , health care , promotion (chess) , action (physics) , population , health promotion , risk analysis (engineering) , actuarial science , environmental health , medicine , economic growth , economics , political science , quantum mechanics , physics , politics , law
The hospital industry is unique for having within it “customers” exposed to a complex mix of risks. A model is proposed that combines both the risk assessment and the promoting hospital models. This model acts in three stages: exposure elimination and protection, health aptitudes and culture, and hospital population action, and includes specific operations that can be tracked through specific effectiveness factors. Being tested in a small community hospital, there is an opportunity to apply it within the current Mexican Health reform that moves the financial risk from the patient to the provider and thus may support health promotion.