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5.2 Output Class Definitions Prevention
Preventative services are publicly funded services that protect and promote health in the whole population or identifiable sub-populations comprising services designed to enhance the health status of the population as distinct from treatment services which repair/support health and disability dysfunction.
Preventative services address individual behaviours by targeting population wide physical and social environments to influence health and wellbeing.
Preventative services include health promotion to ensure that illness is prevented and unequal outcomes are reduced; statutorily mandated health protection services to protect the public from toxic environmental risk and communicable diseases; and, population health protection services such as immunisation and screening services.
On a continuum of care these services are public wide preventative services.
Early Detection and Management
Early detection and management services are delivered by a range of health and allied health professionals in various private, not-for-profit and government service settings. Include general practice, community and Māori health services, Pharmacist services, Community Pharmaceuticals (the Schedule) and child and adolescent oral health and dental services.
These services are by their nature more generalist, usually accessible from multiple health providers and from a number of different locations within the DHB.
On a continuum of care these services are preventative and treatment services focused on individuals and smaller groups of individuals.
Intensive Assessment and Treatment Services
Intensive assessment and treatment services are delivered by a range of secondary, tertiary and quaternary providers using public funds. These services are usually integrated into facilities that enable co-location of clinical expertise and specialized equipment such as a ‘hospital’. These services are generally complex and provided by health care professionals that work closely together. They include:
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