U.S. Health System
Affordable Care Act
Influenza, malaria, HIV
What are the current major infectious diseases present in the world today?
Mission is to improve and protect community health
What is the U.S. public health system?
Health is the absence of illness or disease.
What is the medical model definition of health?
Ability of an individual to obtain health care when needed.
What is Access?
Pluralistic
What type of health care system does the U.S. have?
developed one of the first tests used worldwide to detect COVID-19
What is Germany?
Places the responsibility for fair distribution of health care on market forces in a free economy
What is market justice?
Medicine that seeks to treat the whole person. It incorporates the spiritual dimension in addition to the physical, mental, and social aspects of optimal health.
What is holistic medicine?
Illness is recognized by a person's perceptions and evaluation of how they feel. Disease is determined by a medical professional's evaluation, not the patient's assessment.
What is the difference between illness and disease?
Providers receive a fixed payment for each enrollee under their care, or through a discounted fee arrangement
What is capitation?
Rejected lockdowns and delayed school closings leading to more COVID cases
What is the United Kingdom?
country where health care is financed by government-mandated employer and employee contributions, and health care is delivered by private providers
What is Germany's health care system model?
Health is a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is the WHO's definition of 'health'?
Led by the CDC. Is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach that recognizes the interconnected among people, animals, and plants and their shared environment
What is the One Health Approach?
Health networks of health care providers and organizations that provide health care to a population and is responsible for the health outcomes and health status of that population. The largest in the U.S. is Ascension Health.
What is an IDS and what is the largest IDS in the U.S.?
more than 78 million caseloads and 924,000 deaths.
How many COVID-19 cases and how many deaths were here in the U.S. as of Feb. 14, 2022?
Country where health care delivery and financing of tax-supported national health insurance are managed by the government
What is the UK's health care system model?
Initiatives founded on the integration of medical care with preventative services, health promotion, and education, integration of personal and community health care and increased access to integrated care services
What is Healthy People?
Emphasized well-being of the community over that of the individual and the inability to obtain medical services due to lack of financial resources is considered unjust
What is social justice?
No central governing agency and little integration and coordination. Technology-driven system focusing on acute care. high cost, unequal access, average outcomes.
What are the characteristics of the U.S. Health System?
United States (approximately 20%)
Who was responsible for the highest percentage of COVID-19 cases globally?
Country where health care is financed by the government but health care itself is delivered by private providers
What is Canada's health care system model?
Environment, behavior and lifestyle, heredity, and medical care.
What are the four categories that are determinants of health?
Nutrition programs, work/environment safety efforts, community-based partnerships, culturally appropriate care, patient safety/medical error reduction, prevention-oriented effort, coordinated care for chronically ill persons
What are strategies that improve health and reduce disparities?