Chronic Disease
Insurance
Prevention
Acronyms
Vocab
100
Eating a ____ diet can help prevent chronic diseases,
Healthy
100
This program helps the elderly (65+) pay for medical assistance
Medicare
100
focuses on prevention, diagnosis and treatment, education, and minor surgery
primary care
100
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
100
Provide assistance and care mainly for elderly patients
long term care facilities
200
Heart disease risk factors
high blood pressure, high LDL (bad cholesterol), diabetes/prediabetes, smoking, obesity, family history, unhealthy diet
200
This program helps poor Americans pay for medical assistance
Medicaid
200
complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just an absence of disease
health
200
ACO
Accountable Care Organization
200
Provide physical, occupational, and other therapies
rehab facilities
300
One of the leading causes of Type 2 Diabetes
Obesity
300
The type of insurance most countries in Europe currently have
public insurance
300
This type of provider is typically with Internal Medicine, Pediatric or Family Medicine
Primary Care Physican
300
PCP
Primary Care Physician
300
Care that provides support, comfort, and pain control
palliative care
400
Leading causes of Death in the US
1.) Heart Disease 2.) Cancer 3.) Stroke 4.) Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease
400
trends that have increased healthcare costs
aging population, technology, health care utilization
400
a form of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a significant portion of a population (or herd) provides a measure of protection for individuals who have not developed immunity
Herd Immunity
400
VNA
What is Visiting Nurse Association
400
care usually provided for less then 24 hours for persons who have had treatments or surgery requiring short-term skilled care
outpatient care
500
Chronic diseases can be controlled but not _____
cured
500
Health insurance coverage for active duty and retired members of the uniformed services and their dependents
TRICARE
500
barriers to primary prevention
Money, Attitudes of health care providers, Societal Values, Environmental hazards, Media, Access
500
EMR
Electronic Medical Record
500
a set of national health objectives for the decade and designed to measure progress over time
Healthy People 2020
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