U.S. Health Care
The U.S. health care system does not have one of these agencies in charge of the whole system.
What is a central governing agency?
Most private health care financing comes from these.
What are employers?
Air pollution and toxic chemicals are examples of these.
What are environmental factors?
This helps define a society's ideals.
What is a value system?
In this country, the government finances health care through taxes, but private providers deliver it.
What is Canada?
This can affect whether someone is able to get health care in the U.S.
What is insurance coverage?
About 55% of U.S. health care spending comes from this source.
What is private financing?
Diet, exercise, and stress are examples of these.
What are lifestyle factors?
Different groups within a society can have different beliefs about health because of these.
What are subcultures?
This country uses employer and employee contributions to help pay for health care.
What is Germany?
The U.S. health care system uses a lot of this.
What is technology?
About 45% of U.S. health care spending comes from this source.
What is the government?
This refers to the genes and diseases that can be passed down from family members.
What is heredity?
Traditional American values have focused more on this type of justice.
What is market justice?
In this country, the government manages the health care system and uses taxes to help finance it.
What is the United Kingdom?
The U.S. health care system is known for having high costs and this type of access.
What is unequal access?
The high cost of this can cause people to stop taking their prescribed treatment.
What are medications?
This determinant includes access to preventive and curative health services.
What is medical care?
This means making health care available fairly to everyone.
What is equity?
These are two countries that have well-established health care systems that can be compared to the U.S.
What are Canada and France?
The U.S. health care system combines these two ideas.
What are market justice and social justice?
These are some things the government helps provide when the private sector does not.
What are clean water, sanitation, and public health services?
These are the four main health determinants discussed in Chapter 2.
What are environment, lifestyle, heredity, and medical care?
These two ideas are used when discussing fairness in health care.
What are market justice and social justice?
Most developed countries have this type of health insurance, unlike the U.S.
What is universal health insurance?