Government
serves the elderly, the disabled, and persons with end-stage renal disease
What is Medicare?
consists of medical and nonmedical care for individuals with chronic health issues and disabilities that prevent them from performing regular daily tasks
What is long-term care?
fair distribution of health care on market forces in a free economy
What is market justice?
the year that marked the creation of Medicare and Medicaid
What is 1965?
the four main determinants of health
What is environment, behavior/lifestyle, heredity, and medical care?
provides coverage for low-income adults, children, the elderly, and disabled individuals
What is Medicaid?
community health centers, migrant health centers, free clinics, hospital emergency departments, public hospitals
What are safety net providers?
the inability to obtain medical services due to a lack of financial resources is considered unjust
What is social justice?
this expanded health care access and introduced insurance marketplaces
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
global goals developed by the United Nations
What are Sustainable Development Goals?
managed by the U.S. federal government
What is Medicare?
individuals who are poor and uninsured, belong to certain minority groups, are of certain immigration status, or live in geographically or economically disadvantaged communities
What are special populations/vulnerable populations?
a set of interrelated, interdependent components designed to achieve some common goals, with logically coordinated components
What is a system?
the dominant method of health care delivery in the U.S. during the preindustrial era
What is home-based care/domestic medicine?
this determinant involves income level, education, and housing
What is the environment?
jointly managed by federal and state governments
What is Medicaid?
politics, economics, technology, society and culture, the physical environment, and demographic/population characteristics
What is a nation's health care systems' influences?
physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, other professionals trained at a doctoral level that engage in direct patient contact
What are human resources?
President Truman proposed this idea involving health insurance
What is national health insurance?
this determinant involves choices made by people; diet, smoking, and exercise
What is behavior/lifestyle?
to improve and protect community health
What is the U.S. public health systems' mission?
What are integrated delivery systems?
carried out mainly through the health care delivery infrastructure; hospitals, clinics, LTC providers
What are system processes?
founded in 1847, helped establish standards for medical education
What is the American Medical Association (AMA)?
factors outside of clinical care that impact health outcomes
What are social determinants of health?