Maternal Mortality
This is what maternal mortality is...
Maternal Mortality is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of the pregnancy from any cause related to or by the pregnancy or its management. It is not from accidental or incidental causes.
Who has the authority to make policy/laws around public health and healthcare?
the states
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These are examples of educational opportunities for public health.
Public health education includes degree programs at community colleges and 4-year colleges, as well as at the master’s and doctoral levels. Many programs are integrating public health degrees into their programs as joint degrees.
Fraud is an example of what?
A category of excess costs.
Name 3 direct and indirect causes of maternal deaths.
Direct be one of these...Hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders (eclampsia, preecalmpsia), sepsis, obstructed labor, uterine rupture, obstetric embolism... etc.
Indirect... Chronic conditions such as cardiac or renal disease, suicide due to depression or psychosis, malaria, TB, AIDS, homicide
This clause allows the federal government to tax, spend, and regulate commerce.
What is the interstate commerce clause?
What is health in all policies?
Describe accreditation
Accreditation is the process of setting standards for education and training institutions and enforcing these standards using self-studies and outside reviews.
Describe three things about medicare.
Medicare is a federal government program that is funded by payroll tax. It provides persons 65 and older, disabled persons eligible for social security, and those with end-stage renal disease. Over 50 million Americans are eligible.
Describe the benefit of midwifery-led care.
Midwifery-led care can lower maternal mortality and morbidity, improving maternal psychosocial well-being outcomes, more efficient use of health system resources... etc.
What are three ways health policies can be made?
health Policies can be made by private groups, commercial trade associations, and government organizations
Describe the steps in successful advocacy.
1.Carefully draft, and get feedback on, the message. 2.Carefully choose the spokesperson(s) to fit the audience. 3.Decide on the method for delivering the message. 4.Define what you want to accomplish. 5.Decide on the audience you want to reach 6.Research and evaluate the impact.
Credentialing is when an individual is evaluated often in the form of a certification after completion of formal exams. Licensure is more than credentialing, usually for practice of a health profession by the state government.
What groups are addressed by the Affordable Care Act?
healthy, young individuals who do not choose to purchase insurance through their employer, poor or near poor individuals, self-employed persons, and employees of small companies.
Why is Maternal Mortality increasing?
Describe the difference between self-imposed risk and imposed risk? Name an example of each.
Self-imposed risk is the risk an individual knowingly and willingly takes on through their own actions, like wearing a helmet. Imposed risk is risk to individuals and populations that is out of their direct control like exposure to toxins from a factory.
These three principles define the rights of research subjects and outlines basic ethical principles.
What is respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
What are screening, behavioral counseling, immunization, and prevention medication.
Compare and contrast two forms of employment-based health insurance
Could be employment based, fee-for-service, HMOs, PPOs, and POSs
This period postpartum has the highest percentage for maternal deaths and why.
From 7-42 days postpartum women are at high risk for death due to severe bleeding, infection, and high blood pressure.
This is the difference between social justice and market justice
Social justice calls for a just society where the government may intervene in promoting equality and equity. Market justice, on the other hand, attempts to promote individual efforts and supports property rights.
What is the importance of IRB?
Institutional Review Boards are essential to ensuring ethical conduct of research. It uses the framework set forth by the Belmont Report to review research proposals.
Describe primacy, secondary, and tertiary care.
Primary care: First contact providers who handle the majority ofcommon problems for which patients seek care.
Secondary care: Specialty care provided by clinicians who focus on a small number of organ systems or type of service.
Tertiary care: Subspecialty care defined by the type of institution it is delivered at and the type of problem addressed.
Pick two areas and describe the differences between the US, Canada, and UK healthcare system
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