This is the primary focus of public health nursing.
What is the health care of communities and populations?
This nurse is famous for creating public health nursing in the United States.
Who is Lillian Wald?
This system requires families to choose a provider from a network and does not allow them access to other services without the provider’s permission.
What is managed care?
This branch of the federal government administers and regulates policy.
What is the executive branch?
This program provides coverage for outpatient services for adults older than 65.
What is Medicare Part B?
These are responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during the 20th century.
What are sanitation and other population-based prevention programs?
This patient would have been most likely to receive care from the Frontier Nursing Service.
Who is a woman in labor?
The American HCS consists of these two approaches to health care.
What are private and public?
This refers to the art of influencing others.
What is politics?
This joint federal-state program provides coverage for low-income adults and their children.
What is Medicaid?
A collection of people who share one or more characteristics.
What is an aggregate?
These institutions began offering nursing programs in the 1950s.
What are junior and community colleges?
These provide a broad range of health and social services in primarily medically underserved areas.
What are federally funded community health centers?
Nurses lobby this branch of government for passage of bills.
What is the legislative branch?
This program covers stays in a skilled nursing facility.
This core public health function ensures that essential community-oriented health services are available.
What is assurance?
This document proposes a national strategy to significantly improve the health of Americans by preventing or delaying the onset of major chronic illnesses, injuries, and infectious diseases.
What is Healthy People?
This program covers the cost of most prescriptions for those over the age of 65.
What is Medicare Part D?
This report created national goals for promoting health and preventing disease.
What is the 1979 Surgeon General’s report?
This is inversely related to mortality and morbidity for almost every disease.
What is socioeconomic status?
A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families.
What is community-based nursing?
This current American program is similar to the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601.
What is Medicaid?
The agency most directly involved with the health and welfare of Americans.
What is the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)?
This group determines the scope of practice for registered nurses.
Who are state legislators?
This national law sought to curb health care costs and improve quality.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?