Managed Care
Insurance plan that requires a patient to stay within a network of providers.
What is an HMO?
The U.S. health care system is unique because it does not guarantee this.
What is universal health care?
This habit is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S.
What is smoking?
Employer health insurance became common in the U.S. during this war.
What is World War II?
Professionals that provide most of the primary care in the U.S.
What is physicians?
An act passed in 2010 that reformed U.S. health insurance.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Act that allows patients to receive needed medical treatment even if they cannot pay.
What is The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986?
This factor relates to genetic makeup and family history.
What is hereditary factors?
Medicare and Medicaid were created in this year.
What is 1965?
These organizations pay for health care services, such as insurance companies and Medicare.
What is third-party payers?
Medicaid covers this group of people.
What is low-income individuals?
In the U.S., health care is mainly delivered by this sector.
What is the private sector?
Preventive care is divided into three levels: primary, secondary, and a third type, which focuses on rehab and preventing complications.
What is tertiary prevention?
Before health insurance, people usually paid for their medical care in this way.
What is out of pocket payments?
These organizations represent patients by advocating for policy changes.
What is Patient Advocacy Organizations?
The federal program that provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 or older.
What is Medicare?
The U.S. health care system is oriented to this kind of care.
What is acute care?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines being healthy more than being sick, it also means being well in these three ways.
What is physical, mental, and social health?
Growth of hospitals occurred in the early 1900s was fueled by this advancement.
What is medical technology?
These professionals support care by working in roles like nursing, pharmacy, or physical therapy.
What is allied health professionals?
This problem led to the VA system to be caught in a scandal. (leading to patient deaths).
What is long wait times?
Providers engage in this action for protection, which increases costs and inefficiency in the health care system.
What is defensive medicine?
In the U.S., this factor has the greatest overall impact on people's health outcomes.
What is social determinants of health?
U.S. health care has historically followed this model of health, which focuses on treating illness rather than preventing disease.
What is the medical model?
Hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics are grouped under this broad type of health care organization.
What is health care institutions?