Systems
This sector plays a subsidiary role in U.S. health care.
What is the government?
This level is where health determinants are always assessed.
What is the individual level?
The ______ defines health as complete physical, mental, and social well‑being.
What is the WHO or the World Health Organization?
This program provides care for active‑duty military, retirees, and their dependents.
What is TriCare?
This principle states that medical care is distributed based on willingness and ability to pay.
What is market justice?
This characteristic means access to care depends heavily on insurance coverage.
What is unequal access?
Air pollution, water contaminants, radiation, and toxic chemicals fall under this determinant.
What are physical environmental factors?
This indicator measures the average number of years a person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
This subsystem provides care to Native Americans.
What is the Indian Health Service (IHS)?
This principle views equitable distribution of health care as a societal responsibility.
What is social justice?
This describes the U.S. system’s reliance on advanced equipment and procedures.
What is a technology‑driven system?
Diet, exercise, stress, and risky behaviors fall under this determinant.
What are lifestyle or behavioral factors?
This type of condition develops suddenly and lasts a short time.
What is an acute condition?
This subsystem serves groups such as Medicaid recipients, Medicare beneficiaries, and veterans.
What are special populations?
This initiative sets national health goals and objectives to improve population health.
What is the Healthy People Initiative?
This term refers to how societies allocate limited health resources fairly.
What is distributive justice?
This determinant cannot be changed but can be influenced through healthy behaviors.
What is heredity?
Diabetes is an example of this long‑lasting condition.
What is a chronic condition?
This system integrates hospitals, physicians, and services under one organizational structure.
What is an Integrated Delivery System (IDS)?
This type of intervention focuses on improving health at the personal level.
What are individual‑level interventions?
This was the primary goal of recent U.S. health care reform.
What is expanding access to health insurance and care?
This determinant includes access to preventive and curative services.
What is medical care?
These measurable signs help determine the health status of individuals or populations.
What are health indicators?
This subsystem provides care through its own facilities for active‑duty military personnel.
What is the Military Medical Care system?
This determinant was considered for Joan due to her daily wine consumption.
What is substance abuse?