Health Policy Basics
This 2010 law expanded health insurance coverage and created health insurance marketplaces.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This term describes payments made directly by patients at the time of service
What is out-of-pocket cost?
This agency leads public health efforts and disease outbreak responses in the U.S.
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
This concept refers to fairness in healthcare access and outcomes across different populations.
What is health equity?
This term refers to the spread of a disease across multiple countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
This federal program primarily provides health coverage for American aged 65 and older
What is Medicare?
A fixed amount paid for a covered healthcare service, usually at the time of care
What is a co-payment?
Laws requiring vaccination for school entry are examples of this type of policy
What are preventative health policies?
The ethical principal of doing no harm is know as this
What is nonmaleficence?
This initiative aims to improve access to vaccines in low-income countries through global partnerships
What is the Vaccine Alliance?
This joint federal-state program assist low-income individuals and families with healthcare cost
What is Medicaid?
This payment model rewards providers for the quality rather than quanity of care they provide.
What is value-based care?
This policy approach aims to improve population health through education, prevention, and regulation.
What is public health policy?
Who are nurses?
This principal states that health is a fundamental human right for all people
What is the right to health?
This term refers to individuals without any form of healthcare insurance coverage.
What are the uninsured?
The amount a patient must pay before insurance begins to cover cost.
What is a deductible?
The restriction of movement to prevent disease spread is know as this
What is quarantine?
Differences in health outcomes among groups are called this.
What are health disparities?
What organization set a visionary agenda called "Millennium Development Goals" promote a greater world collaboration
What are the United Nations?
Name 3 forces that shape health and social policy
What are interest groups, values, media, law makers and lobbyist,
What is the first tool in the economists' tool kit
What is supply and demand analysis?
What is the science of protection the health of populations and improving the condition of communities in which they work, play an live.
What is public health policy?
Sarah Palin was famous for using a scare tactic by urging her supporters to oppose Democratic plans for health care, what did she call the proposed healthcare plan?
What is Obama's death panel
Name one of the 3 Millennium Development goals
What is the reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternity health and the fight against HIV outbreak