Ch. 1 Vocab
MC is the dominant health care delivery system in the United States.
What is Managed Care?
This program provides health care to retired veterans who have served in the military, with priority given to those who are disabled.
What is the Veterans Administration?
The absence of illness or disease.
What is health?
These four categories are classified as the major determinants of health.
What are environmental, behavioral and lifestyle, heredity, and medical care?
This mission is to improve and protect community health.
What is the mission of the U.S. Public Health System?
This medical care system is mostly free of charge for Active-duty military personnel of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
What is Military Medical Care?
This program is abbreviated as CHIP.
What is the Children's Health Insurance Program?
The delivery of medical care or illness care.
What is health care delivery?
This current initiative, launched in 2020, includes more than 500 core, developmental, and research objectives.
What is Healthy People 2030?
What is illness?
This vulnerable population is defined as those with health needs but limited or no access to resources to address them.
What is a special population?
This country's life expectancy for women is 83.3 years.
What is Germany?
Focuses on improving the health and well-being of the population rather than the individual.
What is public health?
Self-reported health status, life expectancy, morbidity, mental well-being, social functioning, functional limitations, disability, and spiritual well-being.
What are the indicators of health?
This was the top cause of death in 2018.
What is cancer?
This act was passed in 2010 to make insurance more affordable and lower health costs for those in the United States.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This country agreed to provide at least half of their population with access to multidisciplinary primary care teams.
What is Canada?
An often treatable condition that develops rapidly and only lasts a short amount of time.
Example: The flu
What is an acute condition?
Environmental quality, socioeconomic status, injury and violence, physical activity, overweight/obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, access to preventive care, access to primary care, and immunization.
What are Health Determinants?
A network of health care providers and organizations that provide health care to a population and is responsible for that population's health outcome and status.
What are integrated delivery systems?
This justice places the responsibility for the fair distribution of health care on market forces in a free economy according to people's willingness and ability to pay. This justice emphasizes the well-being of the community rather than at an individual level, and the idea that the inability to obtain medical services due to a lack of financial resources is unjust.
What is market justice and social justice?
This amount of the American population is covered by private health insurance.
What is 221 million?
A condition that is often managed but not curable, develops slowly over time, and can last for long periods of time.
Example: Diabetes
What is a chronic condition?
This organization adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals addressing social, economic, and environmental determinants of health and 169 associated targets focusing on five themes such as people, planet, peace, prosperity, and partnership.
What is the United Nations?
This society defines health as a state of physical and mental well-being that facilitates the achievement of individual and societal goals.
What is the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)?