Chapter 5
This refers to the number of cases in a population.
What is frequency
This is how Medicare is funded.
What is payroll taxes?
These are problems with the current healthcare system in the US.
What are the high costs of routine and basic care, poor quality of care (sometimes), and difficulty to access?
These could be reasons why the US does not have Universal Healthcare coverage.
What are fears of rationing, rejection of much higher taxes, concerns over access and availability, and objection to paying for care for noncitizens?
Genetically modified (GM) foods may cause this.
What is autoimmune?
This is the level of prevention practiced at Freeman Cardiac Rehab unit.
What is tertiary?
These are examples of human rights violations.
What occurs when the government fails to provide the infrastructure, services, and information necessary to promote health, reduce risk, and control disease?
Government organization that provides surveillance over the quality and safety of drugs.
Who is the FDA?
This insurance reimbursement plan offered by employers often includes a health savings account.
What is a high deductible plan?
These are examples of environmental health problems in the healthy home category.
What is homelessness, the presence of lead-based paint, radon gas seepage in schools, unsafe neighborhoods, sick building syndrome, rodent and insect infestation?
Examples of this level of intervention could be developing customized smoking cessation pamphlets.
What is primary individualized prevention?
An employer determines which drugs are included in their formulary; decisions are slower, more deliberate, and more reactive in the public sector, compared with decisions made in the private sector; health insurance companies are in the private sector.
What are some differences between the private and public sectors regarding health policy?
These things maybe the job of the local health department.
What are immunizations, inspection of restaurants, correctional institutions, and home health?
These methods of payment are largely responsible for the financial support of healthcare.
What are private and government programs?
These are examples of environmental health problems in the waste management category.
What are inadequate sewage systems and radioactive hazardous wastes?
This investigative model focuses on host vulnerability.
What is the epidemiological triangle?
Examples of the ACA at the national level.
What are no pre-existing conditions, no lifetime limits on the amount of coverage, and insurers prohibit policyholders from dropping coverage when they get sick?
This is a benefit of the EMR.
What is sharing patient information among providers?
These are ways that the ACA is paid for.
What is decreasing payment for prescription drugs, a reduction in payment for Medicare and Medicaid, enhanced efforts to reduce Medicare fraud and abuse, and taxes and fees?
These things are associated with walkable neighborhoods.
What are increased social capital, increased physical activity, lower reports of depression, and lower risk of being overweight?
These are the 6 criteria for cause-and-effect relationships.
What are specificity, biological plausibility, strength of association, dose-response relationship, temporary correct relationships, and consistency with other studies?
I'm just a bill, yes, I'm only a bill....these are the steps to make be a law.
What are create, review, vote, send, and sign?
Telehealth services can do this.
What is helping to provide access to residents who live in underserved areas?
The specified amount of money enrollees must pay before an insurance company will begin to cover medical expenses.
What is deductible?
This is the greatest mediator of childhood obesity.
What is poor?