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The American Heritage Stedman’s Medical Dictionary (2002) defines health care as “the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions.”
WHO (2000) defines health-care financing as one of the functions of a health system with three crucial roles, revenue collection, pooling of resources, and purchasing of intervention to cover the health needs of the people, individually and collectively. “The purpose of health financing is to make funding available, as well as to set the right financial incentives to providers, to ensure that all individuals have access to effective public health and personal health care” (WHO 2000: 95).
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Altinanahtar, A. (2021). Health-Care Financing. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22009-9_989
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