U.S. Healthcare System
This determines an individual's access to health care in the United States.
What is insurance coverage?
This principle says market forces can best achieve a fair distribution of healthcare services in a free economy.
What is market justice?
In this country, health care is financed by the government through general taxes but delivered by private providers.
What is Canada?
This U.S. law expanded health insurance coverage but did not achieve universal coverage.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Diet, exercise, stress, and unhealthy choices fall under this determinant of health.
What are behavior and lifestyle?
The U.S. healthcare delivery system is heavily driven by this.
What is technology?
This principle views equitable distribution of health care as a societal responsibility rather than an individual's responsibility.
What is social justice?
In this country, the government manages the infrastructure of healthcare delivery and finances a tax-supported national health insurance program.
What is the United Kingdom?
Around this percentage of people reported being unable to access medical assistance as soon as they recognized their health issue.
What is 42%?
Air pollution, food and water contaminants, radiation, and toxic chemicals belong to this type of environmental factor.
What are physical environmental factors?
Approximately this percentage of total U.S. healthcare expenditures is financed privately, mostly through employers.
What is 55%?
Under market justice, medical care and benefits are distributed based on people's willingness and ability to do this.
What is pay?
This country's healthcare system is financed through government-mandated employer and employee contributions.
What is Germany?
Managed care, military medical care, long-term care, and this system are among the subsystems of U.S. healthcare delivery.
What is the public health system?
This determinant can predispose an individual to certain diseases because of genetic factors.
What is heredity?
Approximately this percentage of U.S. healthcare expenditures is financed by the government.
What is 45%?
This term refers to the fundamental question of how healthcare resources and essential services should be fairly distributed throughout society.
What is distributive justice or equity?
In Germany, these private not-for-profit insurance companies collect contributions and pay physicians and hospitals.
What are sickness funds?
Policy, community-based, healthcare, and individual-level approaches are all examples of these efforts discussed in the course.
What are interventions?
This determinant of health includes access to adequate preventive and curative health services.
What is medical care?
These three characteristics describe major problems with the U.S. healthcare system.
What are high cost, unequal access, and average outcomes?
Traditional U.S. cultural beliefs and values have primarily been based on this type of justice, with social justice taking a secondary place.
What is market justice?
This country's healthcare system, called "social security," was ranked the best national healthcare system in the world by the World Health Organization in a 2000 report.
What is France?
Government healthcare spending is largely used to fill gaps left by this sector.
What is the private sector?
These four dimensions are included among environmental factors affecting health.
What are physical, socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural factors?