Professional Skills
The goal of healthcare is to help people obtain quality and quantity of life. What is meant by the terms "quality and quantity of life?"
Quality - Life satisfaction
Quantity- how long you live
Which system of healthcare provides services to everyone, whether they have insurance or not?
Voluntary Non Profits
In the RESEARCH component of public health, we do surveillance of different diseases. What does this mean?
We track disease - we collect data on the number of people being affected, where they live, etc.
When you can identify the stage of change that a patient is in, you are able to determine how _____ they are to make a change.
READY
The ethical principle of autonomy says that healthcare providers must do this.
Respect the rights of their patients to make their own healthcare decisions.
Data that can be "quantified" such as blood pressure, height, weight, and vaccination rates is known as _________ data?
OBJECTIVE DATA
Which healthcare system covers seniors over the age of 65, people with permanent disabilities, and those living at or near the poverty level?
Government Heathcare
Public health policies often take a very long time to pass because of the conflicts that come up between public health and __________ (two words).
PERSONAL LIBERTIES
Karla has been thinking about starting a new walking routine in order to reduce stress and improve her endurance. However, she doesn't really feel like she has time with her busy work and school schedule. It sounds like Karla is in which stage of change?
Contemplation
Non-maleficence is the ethical principle that says do no ________.
HARM
This skill (two words) helps healthcare providers to make informed judgements on an issue by questioning the source and validity of the data.
Critical Thinking
Most of the UNINSURED people in the US are working adults. Explain why there are so many working adults that do not have health insurance.
They often work at a full time job (or several part time jobs) that do not provide health insurance and they make just a little bit too much money to qualify for government health insurance.
What is the purpose of the education/promotion component of public health?
Provide people with information and to help them understand how the information applies to them.
Movie Tickets, Gift Cards, and Extra Points on a quiz are all examples of _________ motivators to encourage students to study.
EXTRINSIC
If a healthcare provider makes a patient feel that they are not allowed to leave the healthcare setting, the healthcare provider could be committing this tort.
FALSE IMPRISONMENT
This skill enables a healthcare provider to "walk in the shoes" of their patients and clients to help promote a more positive healthcare experience, faster recovery, and improved immune system strength.
Empathy
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) had several goals. Identify one goal.
Provide health insurance to more people.
Require health insurance companies to invest more money in patient care.
Allow young adults to remain on their parents' insurance until the age of 26.
Invest more money in PREVENTION.
ADVOCACY
What does it mean when a patient has a strong INTERNAL locus of control?
They believe that their actions will impact their health.
A healthcare provider that violates their ethical or legal responsibilities could lose these two things that could make it difficult for them to work in the field again. What are these two things?
Their JOB and
Their PROFESSIONAL LICENSE.
What is meant by the term "job burnout" and what can be done to prevent it?
Job burnout - when you lose your sense of value, empathy, compassion, and purpose in your work.
Preventing job burnout - Regular SELF CARE!
What is the difference between the Affordable Care Act and Universal Healthcare?
In Universal Healthcare Systems, everyone is covered by government health insurance, regardless of their employment, educational, documentation, etc. status.
Give an example of a public health policy that is good for public health, but that can be seen as a violation of a person's "AUTONOMY."
Vaccinations, No Smoking, etc....
Asking the right questions and helping to guide patients and clients to their own healthcare decisions is a technique known as
MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
If the patient has given you SIGNED consent.
If the patient is a minor and you share the info with the parent or legal guardian.