Health Understanding
Under the biomedical model, health is primarily defined as this.
What's the absence of illness or disease?
This principle primarily views health care as an economic good and distributes medical care according to people's willingness and ability to pay.
What is market justice?
The model that explains the four key functions of the U.S. health care system: financing, insurance, delivery, and payment
What is the quad-function model?
The four major categories of health determinants include environment, behavior and lifestyle, heredity, and this.
What is medical care?
This series of 10-year national initiatives establishes all health objectives and any benchmarks for improving health specifically within the U.S. and its citizens.
What is Healthy People?
The model defines health as complete physical, mental, and social well-being rather than simply the absence of disease.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
This principle specifically focuses on health care as a social good and considers access to basic health care a right regardless of an individual's ability to pay.
What's social justice?
It's the dominant U.S. health care delivery system that tries to integrate financing, insurance, delivery, payment, and utilization control.
What is managed care?
Air pollution, contaminated food and water, socioeconomic status, and toxic chemicals are prime examples of this category of health determinant.
What is the environment?
First being launched in 2020, this is currently the focus on Healthy People initiative designed to improve health and well-being throughout the next decade.
What is Healthy People 2030?
This tactic and strategy to health attempts to treat the whole person and incorporates all aspects of an individual including physical, mental, social, and spiritual dimensions.
What is holistic health?
Under market justice, limitations on health care access caused by prices and an individual's ability to pay are known by this term.
What's demand-side rationing or price rationing?
These systems and organizations coordinate health care providers and are responsible to improve health outcomes while also controlling costs.
What are integrated delivery systems (IDSs)?
Including an individuals diet, exercise, stress, other personal choices such as substance use/abuse fall under this category of health determinants.
What are behavior and lifestyle?
This approach recognizes the interconnectedness of humans, animals, plants, and their shared environment when addressing health threats.
What is the One Health approach?
An individual can have this condition regardless of feeling sick; one clear example is hypertension because it can have no noticeable/physical symptoms.
What is disease?
Under social justice, the government determines the availability and the distribution of certain health care services through this specific type of rationing.
What is planned rationing or supply-side rationing?
This specific type of organization ties providers and payment incentives to improve quality and lower costs, particularly through Medicare's Shared Savings Program.
What are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)?
This health determinant refers to genetic factors which can potentially expose individuals to certain diseases.
What is heredity?
The four types of interventions can be used to reduce health disparities: social/public policy, community-based, health care, and this type.
What are individual-level interventions?
Compared to a disease, this specifically indicates a person's perception and evaluation of how they feel, including experiences such as pain, weakness, depression, or anxiety.
What is illness?
Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, the ACA, and workers' compensation are examples of programs in the United States based primarily on this principle.
What's social justice?
Compared to many other developed countries, the United States is characterized by this major feature of its health care system.
What is the lack of central governing agency?
According to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, these set in which people are born, live, and work are considered the single most important determinant of health status.
What are social conditions?
In value-based care this specifically calculates by dividing the quality of care achieved by the cost of care.
What is value?