Health Policy Basics
This U.S. federal program provides health insurance primarily to individuals aged 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
Access to this resource is a key determinant of health, impacting housing, food, and medical access.
What is income?
Equity focuses on fairness, while this term refers to providing the same resources to everyone.
What is equality?
This global organization is responsible for coordinating international health responses, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This telecommunication technology became widely used for healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is telemedicine?
This policy, signed into law in 2010, aimed to increase healthcare access and reduce uninsured rates in the U.S.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Exposure to air pollution is an example of this category of social determinant.
What is the environment?
This term describes health differences closely linked to social, economic, or environmental disadvantage.
What are health disparities?
This country spends the most per capita on healthcare, despite having lower life expectancy than other high-income nations.
What is the United States?
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 allowed Medicare to negotiate prices for this category of healthcare products.
What are prescription drugs?
This Medicaid expansion provision was made optional for states under the ACA after a 2012 Supreme Court ruling.
What is Medicaid Expansion?
This term refers to areas with limited access to affordable, nutritious food.
What are food deserts?
This U.S. government agency is responsible for reducing racial and ethnic health disparities through research and intervention.
What is the Office of Minority Health?
The Millennium Development Goals were succeeded by this set of global health and development targets in 2015.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
This ongoing epidemic in the U.S. is characterized by high rates of addiction and overdose deaths related to opioids.
What is the opioid crisis?
This program provides funding for healthcare services to uninsured children in low-income families.
What is the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)?
Educational attainment impacts this key determinant, which is linked to higher income and better health outcomes.
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
The concept of structural racism explains how this institutionally rooted factor perpetuates health inequities.
What is systemic discrimination?
This European country’s national health service is often cited as a model of universal healthcare.
What is the United Kingdom?
In 2023, federal discussions focused on improving access to mental health services for this specific group.
What are veterans?
This act, passed in 1986, ensures emergency healthcare access regardless of ability to pay.
What is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)?
Racial discrimination in housing policies, such as redlining, has contributed to disparities in this social determinant.
What is neighborhood or living environment?
This term describes unfair health outcomes that could be avoided if effective interventions were applied.
What are preventable disparities?
This term refers to health challenges shared by multiple nations, such as pandemics, climate change, and antibiotic resistance.
What are global health issues?
This term describes the unexpected increase in maternal mortality rates in the U.S. compared to other high-income nations.
What is the maternal health crisis?