Individual Rights
This principle means patients should have control over decisions concerning their own healthcare.
What is autonomy?
This social condition refers to having enough money to afford basic needs such as food, housing, and healthcare.
This means people should have a fair opportunity to achieve good health.
What is health equity?
This perspective emphasizes competition, consumer choice, private businesses, and market forces.
What is the free-market perspective?
These three concepts are often called the three cornerstones of healthcare policy.
What are cost, quality, and access?
This process requires healthcare providers to explain the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a treatment before a patient agrees.
What is informed consent?
Education, employment, housing, income, and transportation are examples of these factors that can influence a person's health.
What are social determinants of health?
Differences in health outcomes or healthcare access between groups are called these.
What are health disparities?
This perspective emphasizes society's responsibility to protect the health and welfare of its members.
What is the social contract perspective?
Medicare and Medicaid are examples of programs that help address this healthcare issue.
What is access?
This federal law establishes standards for protecting patients' health information.
What is HIPAA?
This social condition can make it difficult for people to get to doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare services.
What is transportation?
A healthcare policy provides additional resources to a community because it has fewer doctors and greater healthcare needs. This policy is designed to promote this.
This perspective was particularly influential in U.S. health policy from approximately 1880 to 1960.
What is professional autonomy?
A hospital implementing procedures to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety is focusing on this cornerstone of healthcare.
What is quality?
This document allows a person to communicate their healthcare wishes if they later become unable to make decisions.
What is an advance directive?
People living in these areas may have fewer doctors, hospitals, and specialists available to them.
What are rural communities?
A person living in a rural area has to travel several hours to see a specialist. This is an example of what type of issue?
What is an access barrier?
Medicare and Medicaid can be used as examples when discussing this perspective because they involve government taking responsibility for helping certain populations obtain healthcare.
What is the social contract perspective?
Nurse and physician shortages can increase this aspect of healthcare because organizations may need to hire temporary or higher-cost staff.
What is cost?
This principle protects a patient's medical information and limits when healthcare providers can disclose it to others.
What is patient confidentiality?
This factor can affect a person's health by influencing their job opportunities, income, health literacy, and ability to understand and navigate the healthcare system.
What is education?
A community with few doctors, long travel distances, and limited healthcare facilities illustrates this type of healthcare barrier.
What is an access disparity?
This perspective argues that individuals and private organizations should have greater freedom to make healthcare decisions, with less government involvement.
What is the free-market perspective?
A rural community with few physicians demonstrates a problem with this cornerstone because people may have difficulty obtaining necessary medical services.
What is access?