Health Care
Type of medicine that emphasizes the well-being of every aspect of the whole person, including spiritual, physical, mental, social, and emotional.
Holistic Medicine
What is the name of the legislative act that decreased the number of uninsured Americans in the last decade?
The Affordable Care Act
What is the name of the American ten year initiatives that outline key America national health objectives?
Healthy People 2030
What type of government-based program is intended to cover the eligible poor, as determined by income?
Medicaid
A cluster of special services for the dying, which blends medical, spiritual, legal, financial, and family-support services. The venue can vary from a specialized facility, to a nursing home, to the patient's home.
Hospice
Healthcare at a basic rather than specialized level for people making an initial approach to a doctor or nurse for treatment.
Primary Care
Describe how hospitals in pre-industrial America were like.
Dirty, unsanitary, non-scientific, etc.
This type of professional focuses on the community as a whole, rather than treating the individual.
Public Health Professional
What world wide event created a link between employment and health insurance in the United States?
World War II
This type of justice is based upon people’s willingness and ability to pay.
Market Justice
This type of outpatient service provides a broad range of services for communities, depending on the location. Ex include well-baby care and STI clinics
Local public health departments
In 1847 this organization was formed and helped consolidate power, improve medical education, and establish medical licensing laws
American Medical Association
This professional treats patients with diseases or deformities of the feet.
Podiarist
Under what government-based program do patients with end-stage renal disease receive health insurance benefits through?
Medicare
This use of primary care phsyicians to coordinate health care services needed by an enrollee in a managed care plan. Implies that patients do not visit specialists without a referral by their PCP.
Gatekeeping
The first contact that a patient makes with the health care delivery system is known as what?
Point of Entry
In preindustrial America, persons with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis were cared for in what type of facility?
Pesthouses
This principle believes that the equitable distribution of health care is a societal, rather than an individual responsibility.
Social Justice
What is the name of the insurance program for US military?
Tricare
This group of persons is charged with the responsibility of developing guidelines and standards for ethical decision making in the delivery of health care.
Ethics Committee
Neighborhoods with higher-primary care physician-to-population ratios have better health outcomes. Provide three health-related examples where this is true.
Decreased mortality rates, seat belt use, obesity, smoking, stroke, life expectancy, community-acquired pneumonia, mammography use, diabetes mellitus, CHF, hospitalization rates
During what era did urbanization, scientific discoveries, formation of hospitals, and reform of mental health care occur?
Post-Industrial Era
This term refers to the ways in which health care delivery in the U.S has become the domain of large organizations.
Coporatization
The blueprint for modern health insurance was conceived at Baylor University as a hospital insurance plan. This became the model for what insurance plan across the nation?
Blue Cross
In the 1940's this legislation was passed and is considered the greatest single factor in increasing the nation's hospital beds.
Hill-Burton Act (aka Hospital Survey & Construction Act)