Chronic Diseases
This health policy allows a woman to take time for work to care for her mother who is sick with cancer.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
Most migrant workers in the US come from this country.
What is Mexico?
This person led reform efforts to correct types of inhumane practices in the care of criminals, mentally ill, and victims of the Civil War.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Experience and psycho social factors affect the etiology and treatment of mental illness according to this theory.
What is the biospychosocial disorder theory?
This term is used to describe the resistance of certain groups to risk factors.
What is resilience?
This term describes the advance directive that designates someone else to make health care decisions when a person is incapacitated.
What is a durable medical power of attorney?
This disability/chronic condition has been identified as an occupational health risk for agricultural workers.
What is cancer?
This was the first major piece of legislation to influence mental health services in the US.
What is the Social Security Act?
This is the percentage of the adult population in the US that suffers from a mental condition severe enough to impair daily function.
What is 18%?
This federal program created support for older and poor Americans.
What is the Social Security Act?
This term, usually calculated by age, is used to describe the overall health status of a population.
What is life expectancy?
Mexican clients who suffer from folk illnesses are more like to want to receive care from this type of healer.
What is a folk healer?
If you lived in this era, physical and mental illnesses were viewed as interrelated, resulting from physical conditions.
What is the Greco-Roman era?
This term describes the use of any substance that threatens a person's health or impairs his or her social or economic functioning.
What is substance abuse?
This is a factor influencing the growing number of poor persons in the US.
What is a decrease in the labor force?
This type of cancer is typically found in males between the ages of 15-40.
What is testicular cancer?
This piece of legislation prohibits discrimination in the workplace for a person with a diagnosed mental health disorder.
What is the American with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
This term refers to the necessary use of drugs to prevent withdrawal symptoms.
What is drug dependence?
This term describes a family who has income above the federal income guidelines, but is unable to meet living expenses or qualify for government support programs.
What is near poor?
This type of cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the US.
What is prostate cancer?
When a nurse is considering the effects of biology and environment, or nature and nurture, on the development of mental illness, he/she is utilizing this theory/model.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
Adult women who are subjected to this are at greatest risk for suicide.
What is intimate partner violence?
This type of abuse occurs when a child does not receive the basic nurturing and caring needed for healthy development.
What is emotional neglect?