Subsystems Of U.S. Health Care Delivery
The coverage available to United States active-duty military personnel and their families.
What is Tricare?
The name of the U.S. initiative released every 10 years.
What is Healthy People?
Physical factors such as air pollution, food and water contaminants, radiation, and toxic chemicals.
What is Environment?
The U.S. health care system is financed publicly and privately and features various payment, insurance, and delivery mechanisms.
What is no central governing agency?
The various types of workers directly engaged in the delivery of health care to patients.
What are System Resources?
The people that have health needs but are not able to access the resources to address them.
What is special populations/vulnerable people.
The conditions in in which people are born, live and work in that have an affect on their health.
What is Social Determinants of Health?
Diet, exercise, stress, risky or unhealthy actions, and other choices.
What is behavior and lifestyle?
The United States is a hotbed of of research and innovation in medical care.
What is technology driven?
Carried out mainly through the health care delivery infrastructure, which consists of hospitals, clinics, LTC providers, and other settings.
What is system process?
Either through capitation or through a discounted fee arrangement.
What is the way managed care organizations pays providers?
Nutrion programs, work/environment safety efforts, community-based partnerships, culturally appropriate care, patient safety/medical error reduction, prevention-oriented effort, coordinated care for chronically ill persons.
What are some strategies to reduce disparities?
The genetic makeup of a person that they inherited from their ancestors.
What is heredity?
In the united states, access is restricted to persons who have employer-based health insurance, are covered under a government- sponsored health care program (including health coverage under the ACA). Can buy insurance with their own funds, can pay for services through safety net providers.
What is high cost, unequal in access, and average in outcome?
Critical issues and concerns surrounding what the health services system is able or unable to accomplish with regard to its primary objective.
What is system outcomes?
Network of health care providers and organizations that coordinate health care to a specific population.
What is an Integrated System (IDS)?
When leaders play a central role in planning and managing strategies to improve health and community solutions.
What is a community-based interventions?
The last of the four categories of Determinants of Health that focuses more on the access to care.
What is medical care?
U.S. national health care programs, patients can select their providers, but true economic market forces are basically nonexistent.
What is imperfect market conditions?
Dynamic health care systems must look forward and consider future outcomes in the context of social, cultural, economic, and other forces.
What is system outlook?
When an individual has chronic health issues and disabilities that hinder their ability to do regular daily tasks.
What is Long-term Care Delivery?
Altering personal health behaviors.
What is an individual-level intervention?
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How many different categories of the Determinants of Health?
United States offers some of the best medical care in the world, yet this care is generally available to people with insurance with good coverage or with enough resources to pay for it themselves.
What is access to health care services?
The structure of the current health care system is not random, but rather explained by historical, cultural, and economic factors.
What is system foundation?