The success of a health care system is measured on the basis of 6 parameters. Safety Effectiveness Efficiency Patient centeredness Timeliness Equity An ideal health care system is one where the patients are well protected as there is a safety mechanism in place to minimize mistakes, to preempt making errors and to identify and to correct it if it happens. The system is to be effective, that means the best available knowledge is put into practice to maximize the outcome and the system has to be efficient which means that the best result is obtained using the optimum resources and minimizing waste and avoiding unnecessary treatment.
There are three more parameters that count: patient-centeredness, which means that the patient is not just a passive recipient of the treatment and an unilateral victim of an authoritarian doctor's decision, but an active participant in decision making. The…
