Statistics
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What is the average life expectancy in years for the U.S.?
What is the percentage amount of funds covered by the government to offset the lack of funding from the private sector?
Access
What is the ability of an individual to obtain health care when needed?
Market forces can best achieve fair distribution in a free economy.
What is Market Justice?
These factors include air pollution, food and water contaminants, radiation, and toxic chemicals.
What are Physical environmental factors?
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What percentage of people say that they are unable to access medical assistance as soon as they recognize their health issue due to high costs?
A program in the U.S. that has expanded health insurance but has not achieved universal coverage.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
The interplay of social (e.g., class, gender, family) and cultural (e.g., beliefs, values, traditions) factors that influence an individual's health, how they experience illness, and their interactions with healthcare systems
What is Socio-cultural?
Due to the reliance on Government spending to offset the lack of funding from the private sector
Why is the medical research and funding so volatile?
Diet, exercise, stress, risky or unhealthy behaviors
What are lifestyle or behavioral factors?
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The amount of percentage of spending covered by the private sector
How societal, political, and economic forces influence health outcomes, medical practice, and health policy
What is Socio-political?
Socio-Culturalism is further influenced by the influx of _______ and new _____ entering different countries
What is Immigrants, Cultures?
The distribution of medical care is a societal responsibility, not that of an individual.
What is Social Justice
Heart disease, Diabetes, Stroke, Sexually transmitted diseases, Cancer
What are health risks commonly attributed to Risky Individual lifestyle or behavioral factors?
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What percentage of people stated they skipped medication doses due to cost in the U.S.?
Country where 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?
The traditional cultural beliefs and values in the U.S. have been based on conservative principles of __________
Market Justice
The influence of factors like income, education, and living conditions on health outcomes
What is Socio-Economic?
Refers to traits inherited from parents, in this case, genetically inherited health determinants.
What is Heredity?
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What is the percentage of medical nills covered my Canada's government?
A country where healthcare 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?
It promotes sociocultural variations in how people view their health and their attitudes and behaviors concerning health, illness, and death.
Why is the mixing of cultures, tolerance of immigrants and other perspectives important?
Important because universal/free healthcare provided by the government cannot ensure optimal health.
Why preventative measures by health officials and governments are important?
Both _______ health and ______ health are closely related to access to adequate services for preventive and curative health
What is Individual, Population?