Subsystems of U.S. Health Care Delivery
Characteristics of the U.S. Health Care System
Health Care Systems of Other Developed Countries
Determinants of Health
Strategies to Improve Health
100

The dominant health delivery system in the United States.

What is Managed Care?

100

These are contrasting theories governing how health care services are produced and distributed.

What are market justice and social justice?

100

This was created to oversee clinical commissioning groups.

What is NHS England?

100

These are the four categories that the major determinants of health can be classified into.

What are environment, behavior and lifestyle, heredity, and medical care?

100

This is the current initiative launched in 2020 that includes more than 500 core, developmental, and research objectives.

What is Healthy People 2030?

200

This organized system offers comprehensive services, both preventive and treatment oriented.

What is Military Medical Care?

200

Of all developed countries, this one spends the most on health care services, with these expenditures amounting to 16.7% of the gross domestic product in 2019.

What is the United States?

200

In Germany, these private not-for-profit insurance companies collect the contributions and pay physicians and hospitals

What are sickness funds?

200

This is associated with a variety of health indicators, such as life expectancy, age-adjusted mortality rates, and leading causes of death.

What is income inequality?

200

This commission concluded that the social conditions in which people are born, live, and work are the single most important determinant of health status.

What is the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health?

300

This health care system provides care for retired veterans who have served in the military, with priority given to those who are disabled.

What is the Veterans Administration?

300

In this, patients are provided with information on the price and quality of services offered by each provider.

What is free market?

300

This is a subsidiary of the Federal Ministry of Health, conducts national patient surveys and publishes epidemiological, public health, and health care data.

What is the Robert Koch Institute?

300

These can significantly influence the development and severity of inherited disease in those predisposed to it, as well as its risk for future generations.

What are a healthy lifestyle and health-promoting behaviors?

300

This association's activities include identifying barriers and challenges, assessing uptake at the local level, and sharing examples of local use.

What is the National Association of County and City Health Officials?

400

This program was created in 1997 by the federal government to provide insurance to children in uninsured families.

What is CHIP?

400

Most providers engage in this for protection, prescribing additional diagnostic tests, scheduling checkup appointments, and maintaining abundant case documentation.

What is defensive medicine?
400

The Federal Cabinet in Germany passed this law in 2015 to improve health care applications, providing deadlines to implement electronic applications and introducing related incentives and sanctions.

What is the E-Health Act?

400

This time period of human development has an enormous influence on a person's future health.

What is early childhood development?

400

In the Objectives for Healthy People 2020, this population experienced the most progress over the past decade in terms of trackable objectives that improved, met, or exceeded their goals.

What is the Asian American population?

500

These are nonprofit groups that are designed to educate the general public about a number of diseases, along with funding research and representing patients by advocating for policy changes. 

What are Patient advocacy organizations?

500

This federal law requires screening and evaluation of all patient, provision of necessary stabilizing treatment, and hospital admission when necessary, regardless of ability to pay.

What is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986?

500

In 2004, all provincial and territorial government in Canada agreed to provide at least half of their populations with access to multidisciplinary primary care teams as part of this program.

What is the 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care?

500

This is a possible explanation for why less-educated Americans die earlier than their better-educated counterparts.

What is avoiding risky behaviors?

500

More than 9.2 million people signed up for care on the national exchange in 2017, down by about 400,000 from 2016, as the fate of the ACA became uncertain under this administration.

What is the Trump administration?

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