Delivery & Access
About 13% - 27% of emergency department visits could actually be handled by these providers.
What are primary care providers or urgent care centers?
Unlike many other developed nations, the U.S. does have this type of governing agency for health care.
What is central governing agency?
One strategy to improve health is shifting focus from treating illness to this type of care.
What is preventative care?
According to World Health Organization(WHO) , Health is defined as complete state of physical, mental, and this type of well-being.
What is Social well-being?
A type of insurance plan in which providers are paid for each service provided.
What is fee-for-service (FFS)?
What is managed care?
The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other country but citizens are limited on this.
What is universal health coverage?
This type of determinant, such as income and education, greatly affects health disparities
What are social determinants of health?
This type of medicine 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?
A network of organizations that coordinates care and is held accountable for outcomes.
What is an Integrated Delivery System(IDS)?
Managed care plays an increasingly large role in delivering care under these programs
What are federal and state health insurance programs?
Unlike Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom, the U.S. healthcare system is not run primarily by this.
What is the government?
This is one example of policy intervention that protects employees from the potential dangers of an unsafe environment at the workplace.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
Diseases can be classified as this
A set of interrelated, interdependent components designed to achieve some common goals, with logically coordinated components.
What is a system framework?
This federal program provides care to more than 9 million individuals at 1,200 sites, including 171 medical centers and 1,112 outpatient clinics.
What is the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system?
These are contrasting theories governing how healthcare services are produced and distributed.
Schools are implementing this to prevent obesity.
School-based nutritional programs.
These two types of factors such as smoking, diet, income, and education strongly affect health outcomes
What are behavioral/lifestyle factors and socioeconomic status?
This type of justice drives private, employer-based insurance, mainly for middle income Americans.
What is Market Justice?
This type of care is more likely to require hospitalization, making it part of an IDS.
What are specialities like Hematology-Oncology and Cardiology?
A nation's healthcare system is influenced by some of these broad factors.
What is politics, economics, technology, society and culture?
This guards the welfare of the nation through product safety regulations, screening food and water sources, enforcing safe work environments, and other ways.
What is Policy Intervention?
This helps define a society's ideals.
What is a value system?
This justice is the basis for publicly financed Medicaid, Medicare, Children's Health Insurance Program coverage, the ACA and workers comp programs.
What is Social Justice?