1. Factors That Influence Healthcare Delivery
Objective: Explain the factors influencing health care delivery systems.

2. Factors That Influence Healthcare Delivery
Your assignment is to discuss with your group ways YOU THINK the factors on the next slide could influence healthcare delivery system.
You can use your phone to research.
Be prepared to discuss your topic with the rest of the class.

3. Factors That Influence Healthcare Delivery
Many different factors influence the healthcare delivery system, including:
Aging populations (increased life expectancy & Baby Boomers)
Financing (increasing costs and uninsured)
Culture (language and health care beliefs)

4. Factors That Influence Healthcare Delivery
Aging factors: (increased life expectancy & Baby Boomers)
Increase life expectancy (2005 CDC data)
White males – 75.4 years
Black males – 69.2 years
White females – 80.5 years
Black females – 76.1 years
In 2005, 6% of population was 75 or older. Will increase to 12% by 2050
Baby boomers, people born after WWII ( ), are at an age when the use of the healthcare system is heaviest

5. Factors That Influence Healthcare Delivery
Financing: (increasing costs and uninsured)
Technological advances produce costly services
Increase in pharmaceutical costs
More services (diagnostic & treatment) are available today
Tests & services overused by physicians seeking to avoid law suits
Lack of competition
Rising expectations of patients
Number of uninsured increasing – 16% in 2005

6. Factors That Influence Healthcare Delivery
Culture: (aspects of culture influence health care)
Language – greatest influence to provide care in ED
Family practices
Childbirth practices
Child-rearing practices
Food habits
Benefits of health, illness, and aging
Death practices
Pain response