Characteristics of US Healthcare System
In this country the average life expectancy is about 78.5 years
What is the average life expectancy in the U.S?
This law expanded health insurance in the U.S. but has not yet created universal coverage.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
The United States is known for having unequal access, average outcomes, & legal risks that influence provider behaviors
Which country has unequal access, average outcomes, & legal risks that influence provider behaviors?
Health determinants are always considered at this level, focusing on personal factors that affect well-being.
What is the individual level?
A value system helps define a society’s ideals.
What system helps define a society’s ideals?
This type of healthcare system is characterized by its reliance on advanced medical technology and often comes with significantly higher costs.
What is a technology-driven healthcare system?
Unlike the U.S., most other developed countries have this type of health insurance program.
What is universal health insurance?
Canada provides basic universal coverage, but citizen still purchases additional health insurance through their employers
Which Country provides basic universal coverage, but citizen still purchases additional health insurance through their employer?
Environmental factors include these four key dimensions of life: physical, socio-economic, socio-political, and this.
What is socio-cultural?
American society has become increasingly defined by various subcultures due to the steady influx of immigrants from different parts of the world.
Which society has become increasingly defined by various subcultures due to the steady influx of immigrants from different parts of the world?
In the U.S., this factor primarily determines an individual's ability to access health care services.
What is insurance coverage?
This subsystem of U.S. healthcare serves military personnel and their families.
What is Military Medical Care?
In the U.S. 18% of survey respondents stated they skipped medication doses due to cost
In which country did 18% of survey respondents report skipping medication doses due to cost?
Air pollution, food and water contaminants, radiation, and toxic chemicals are all examples of this type of environmental factor that impacts health.
What are physical environmental factors?
Millennials are more inclined toward social justice.
Which generation is more inclined toward social justice?
Characteristics of the U.S. healthcare system
No central governing agency & little integration & coordination, fusion of market justice and social justice, multiple players and balance of power are examples of what?
This subsystem focuses on coordinated care for groups such as the elderly or chronically ill, often providing services over an extended period.
What is Long-term Care?
In Canada, most medical offices are privately owned and operated
In which country are most medical offices privately owned and operated?
Case #1: Because Joan’s blood pressure is 165/102 and her BMI is approximately 32, these two health determinants must be considered in her care.
What are physical activity and weight/obesity?
This concern about equitable access to healthcare services is addressed by theories of market justice and social justice
What is equitable access to healthcare services?
These three major issues are often used to describe the overall performance of the U.S. healthcare system, despite its high spending and advanced technology.
What do high costs, unequal access, and average health outcomes characterize?
Name 3 of the 6 subsystems of U.S. healthcare delivery besides Military Medical Care and Long-term Care
Managed Care, Subsystems for Special Populations, Integrated Systems, & Public Health System
In Canada, the country pays 70% with the remaining 30% paid by the patient either out of pocket or with private insurance
In which country is 70% covered by the government, with the remaining 30% covered by the patient either out of pocket or with private insurance?
Case #2: For Gerrard, a 52-year-old man living in rural Costa Rica with a history of heavy smoking, alcohol use, recent assault, and disorientation, these health determinants must be carefully evaluated.
What are tobacco usage, substance abuse, mental health, injury violence, and access?
Name six of the ten key strategies aimed at improving the U.S. healthcare system
What are the Healthy People initiative, public health, focus on determinants, social determinants of health, medical care determinants of health, social and medical points of intervention, policy interventions, community-based interventions, healthcare interventions, and individual-level interventions?