Different Countries
There were two other countries mentioned in Module 1 that have well-established healthcare delivery systems.
What are Canada & France?
This is the structure of the current health care system is not random, but rather explained by historical, cultural, social, and economic factors.
What are foundations?
This is who the military medical care system is available to, mostly free of charge.
What are active-duty military personnel of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard, as well as members of certain uniformed nonmilitary services such as the Public Health Service and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association?
This type of health exists when a person is free of symptoms and does not require treatment.
What is optimal?
These factors encompass the physical, socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and sociocultural dimensions of life.
What is environmental?
___ basic models for structuring national health care systems prevail in Western European countries and Canada.
What is three?
This consists of the various types of workers directly engaged in the delivery of health care to patients.
What are resources?
This is the program financed by the Department of Defense that permits beneficiaries to receive care from both private and military medical care facilities.
What is TriCare?
This refers to the delivery of medical care or illness care.
In this status, it is observed that people with higher incomes often live in areas with less exposure to environmental risks and enjoy better access to care.
What is socioeconomic?
In this country, health care is financed by the government through general taxes, but health care itself is delivered by private providers.
What is Canada?
These are carried out mainly through the health care delivery infrastructure, which consists of hospitals, clinics, LTC providers, and other settings.
What are processes?
This program provides care for retired veterans who have served in the military, with priority given to those who are disabled.
What is the Veterans Administration (VA) health care system?
This organization defines health as "a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
What is WHO?
These factors include diet, exercise, stress, risky or unhealthy behaviors, and other choices that may contribute to significant health problems.
What is individual/behavioral?
In this country, health care is financed by government-mandated employer and employee contributions, and health care is also delivered by private providers. Private not-for-profit insurance companies—called sickness funds—collect the contributions and pay physicians and hospitals.
What is Germany?
These refer to critical issues and concerns surrounding what the health services system is able or unable to accomplish with regard to its primary objective-to provide cost-effective health services that meet quality standards to a nation.
What are outcomes?
This population is defined as persons with health needs but inadequate resources to address them.
What are special populations?
This type of medicine seeks to treat the whole person, and the same type of health incorporates the spiritual dimension in addition to the physical, mental, and social aspects of optimal health, and thus provides the most complete understanding of health.
What is holistic?
Heart disease, diabetes, stroke, sexually transmitted diseases, and cancer are some of the ailments directly linked to this type of lifestyle.
What is individual choice?
In this country, the infrastructure of healthcare delivery is managed by the government, as is the financing of a tax-supported national health insurance program.
What is the United Kingdom?
This refers to when dynamic health care systems must look forward and consider future outcomes in the context of social, cultural, economic, and other forces.
What is outlook?
This is one of the largest sources of public health insurance in the United States, serving the elderly, the disabled, and persons with end-stage renal disease.
What is Medicare?
____ and ____ beliefs and practices positively influence physical, mental, and social well-being and may affect the incidences, experiences, and outcomes of many medical problems.
What is religious and spiritual?
This is a key determinant of health because genetic factors predispose individuals to certain diseases.
What is heredity?