Chapter 8
The impact of chemicals, radiation, and biological products that humans introduce into the environment is called what?
Altered Environment
True or false? Credentialing is for the institution and not the individual
FALSE
What type of facility does the patient remain there for at least 24 hours?
Inpatient
What does HMO stand for?
Health Maintenance Organizations
What does ACA stand for?
Affordable Care Act
_____ aims to take into account not only the inherent danger, but also the quantity, route, and timing for the exposure.
_____ is a process of setting standards for educational and training institutions and enforcing these standards using a regularly scheduled institutional self study and an outside review.
Accreditation
A facility where they provide diagnostic testing / treatment would be
Outpatient
How many parts are there in Medicare?
Four (Part A, B, C, D)
How much does the US spend on healthcare a year
4 Trillion
What has the greatest environmental impact on health?
Air Pollution
_____ are the first contact providers who handle the majority of common problems for which patients seek care
Primary Care
What are the two types of inpatient facilities?
Hospitals and Long term care facilities
This employment based health insurance is a fee for services insurance system that works with a limited number of clinicians
PPOs (Preferred provider organizations)
When looking at the quality of healthcare services, if we are looking at the structure measures, where are looking at what?
Physical and organizational infrastructure in which care is delivered.
What are the 4 Steps in the Risk Assessment Process?
1. Hazard Identification
2. Dose Response Assessment
3. Exposure Assessment
4. Risk Characterization
Physicians, nurses, dentists, and psychologists are examples for _____
Clinical health professionals
What are the three measures professionals use when looking at the quality of healthcare services?
Structure measures, process measures, outcome measures
What employment based health insurance do patients in a health plan choose to receive their care outside of the system provided by the health plan?
Point of service plans (POSs)
What is secondary care?
Specialty care provided by clinicians who focus on a small number of organ systems or type of service.
______ examines the impacts of contaminants on ecological systems ranging from chemicals to radiation to genetically altered crops
Ecological Risk Assessment
Technical specialists, often with an associate's degree, such as dental assistants and lab technicians are examples of what?
Allied health practitioners
When we are looking at the quality of healthcare services, reviewing a process measure means we are reviewing what?
The procedures and formal processes that go into delivering care
Name at least 3 of the 4 consequences of being uninsured in the US
Less Preventative Care, Diagnosed at more advanced stages of disease, use ER for routine care, increased mortality rate.
_____ is the largest federal plus state entitlement program?
Hint: Provides for people in the designated groups who are below the federal poverty level.
Medicaid