Chapter 1
Efforts toward worldwide health improvement are initiated by which organization?
World Health Organization
Maternal and infant health
What enables traveling nurses to function in multiple states; a multistate licensing arrangement by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing?
Nursing Licensure Compact
Doctors, nurses, lab techs, rad techs, social workers, and others make up what?
Multidisciplinary providers/team
What refers to the individual's genetic makeup, family history, and the physical and mental health problems acquired during life?
Biology
Who publishes Health People, a 10 year report care concerning health care in the U.S.?
The US Department of Health and Human Services
What are examples of negative behaviors associated with individual responses or reactions to internal stimuli and eternal conditions regarding determinants of health?
Smoking, bad eating habits, and inactive lifestyle
Which leaders helped develop the fundamental principles and laws of health-care?
Hippocrates, Dorthea Dix, Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale
What should patients expect during their hospital stay according to patient care partnerships with expectations, rights, and responsibilities?
1. High-quality hospital care
2. A clean and safe environment
3. Involvement in their care
What is similar to a welfare program in which benefits are provided on a basis of need or poverty?
Medicaid
What are some leading health indicators of Healthy People 2030?
1. Improved access to health care
2. Providing preventative services (ex. immunizations)
3. Reducing gun violence and deaths
What two programs were enacted in order to enable all people to be covered by some type of health insurance, to increase accessibility and aid in achieving stated goals of Healthy People 2030?
Affordable Care Act and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
What is the earliest pieces of governmental legislation concerning hospitals, which provided grants to states for the purpose of building new hospitals?
Hill-Burton Hospital Act of 1946
What local, state, and federal guidance does the USDHHS provide?
Direct services, financing and information
Federal legislation concerning health care is recorded and published in what?
Federal Register
What are the goals of Health People 2030?
1. Achieving health equity
2. Eliminate disparities
3. Promote good health
4. Promote Quality of life, healthy development, and positive health behaviors across all life stages.
What are the goals for childhood health for Health People 2030?
Increase proportion of children who communicate positively with parents, have parents read to them, and get sufficient sleep.
What did the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 and President Roosevelt's New Deal provide?
Influence of social welfare policies; spending for health care
What are the regulations of OSHA for employer standards of safety in protecting their employees?
Reporting worker injuries, communication of toxic/chemical work environments, worker right to receive health care if injured on the job, and worker right to financial compensation regarding life altering injuries on the job.
What has a profound effect on the health of the individual and the larger community; is unique because of cultural customs, language, and personal, religious, or spiritual beliefs? Ex. family, friends, coworkers, and institutions
Social environment
What is the role of health-care workers in achieving Healthy People 2030 goals?
1. Promote breastfeeding and educating children on healthy lifestyles
2. Identifying risks through screening programs
3. Promoting employer sponsored health programs
4. Promoting health-promotion activities and services in managed care organizations.
What percentage of Americans are overweight or obese according to The Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee?
70%
The Constitution of the United States, Article 1, section 8 states what?
The role of the federal government to provide general welfare of the people and provide the spending power to do so; government action to protect the health, welfare and safety of the people
What is the key to reducing health-care cots and the core of Health People 2030 with decreasing the occurrence of chronic health-care problems?
Prevention and early intervention
How do nurses play a key role in the future of health care?
1. Supporting and educating patients
2. Providing cost-effective and quality care
3. Becoming involved in legislative decisions of local, state and federal governments