U.S. Healthcare System
This country has a technology-driven healthcare system with high costs.
What is the United States?
These environmental factors include air pollution, food and water contaminants, radiation, and toxic chemicals.
What are physical environmental factors?
This helps define a society's ideals and influences how people view health and healthcare.
What is a value system?
Because no society has found a perfectly equitable method to distribute limited economic resources, these are inevitable.
What are inequalities?
In this country, healthcare is financed by the government through general taxes but delivered by private providers.
What is Canada?
This law expanded health insurance coverage in the United States but did not achieve universal coverage.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Joan's blood pressure is 165/102, making this health determinant important to consider.
What is physical activity?
The steady influx of immigrants from different parts of the world has contributed to these within American society.
What are subcultures?
This refers to the fundamental question of how a healthcare system can make essential services available to all members of society.
What is distributive justice or equity?
Joan's congestion makes this health determinant important to consider because allergies, tobacco smoke, and car exhaust can cause congestion.
What is environmental quality?
In the U.S. healthcare system, the government is considered a subsidiary to this sector.
What is the private sector?
Joan is 5'2" and weighs 175 pounds, making this health determinant important to consider.
What are weight and obesity?
Cultural diversity can create variations in how people view their health and their attitudes and behaviors concerning health, illness, and this.
What are illness and death?
These two theories address concerns about equitable access to healthcare services.
What are market justice and social justice?
Gerrard's lack of a known home address and his living in the mountains of Costa Rica make this health determinant important to consider.
What is access?
These are examples of subsystems of the U.S. healthcare delivery system, including managed care, military medical care, and long-term care.
What are healthcare delivery subsystems?
Gerrard was beaten during a robbery and has a large open gash on his face, making this health determinant important to consider
What is injury violence?
This generation is described as being more inclined toward social justice and viewing socialism more positively than the general population.
Who are Millennials?
Societies try to allocate limited resources according to these.
What are values and belief systems?
Gerrard's large open gash after being beaten during a robbery makes this health determinant important to consider.
What is injury violence?
Unlike the United States, nearly all other developed countries offer this type of health insurance program.
What is universal health insurance?
These four dimensions make up the environmental factors that can affect health.
What are physical, socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural factors?
A gradual transformation in traditional American beliefs and values is changing the way Americans will receive this in the future.
What is healthcare?
Traditional cultural beliefs and values in the United States have been based on these principles, with social justice taking a secondary place.
What are conservative principles of market justice?
These three countries are discussed as examples of healthcare systems in other developed countries.
What are Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom?