US Healthcare Systems
The primary purpose of a health care delivery system.
What is it to provide health services to individuals and populations?
The ability of an individual to obtain health care when needed is called?
Factors that influence a person's health are called.
What are health determinants?
This type of care focuses on preventing illness or disease before it occurs.
What is preventive care?
This health care subsystem provides medical services to members of the U.S. military and their families.
What is military health care?
The four basic functions of a health care delivery system.
What are financing, insurance, delivery of services, and payment/reimbursement?
The justice that distributes health care according to a person's willingness and ability to pay?
What is Market Justice?
The level at which health determinants should be considered.
What is the population level?
This approach focuses on helping people maintain and improve their health rather than simply treating illness.
What is health promotion?
This type of care provides ongoing medical, personal, or supportive services for people who have chronic conditions or disabilities.
What is long term care?
A term describes the organization and delivery of health services to a population.
What is a health care delivery system?
The type of justice focuses on fairness and equal treatment.
What is social justice?
Give one example of a social determinant of health.
What is income, education, housing, employment, environment, or access to healthy food?
This area of health care focuses on protecting and improving the health of entire populations rather than treating individual patients.
What is public health?
This subsystem focuses on protecting and improving the health of communities and populations through activities such as disease prevention and health education.
What is public health?
The U.S. health care system different from many other developed countries?
What is the U.S. system is characterized by a mixture of public and private financing and delivery rather than one unified national system.
One major consequence when people lack access to health care.
What is delayed or inadequate treatment can lead to poorer health outcomes?
How can a person's socioeconomic status affect health?
What is the influence of access to health care, nutrition, housing, education, and other resources that affect health?
This aspect of health care is important because preventing illness can improve health outcomes and reduce the need for expensive treatment.
What is prevention?
This approach to health care combines the organization, financing, and delivery of services while emphasizing cost control and appropriate use of health services.
What is managed care?
What are the major characteristics of the U.S. health care delivery system discussed in Chapter 1?
What is the system is characterized by complexity, multiple subsystems, technological advancement, high costs, access issues, and a mixture of public and private organizations
The access to health care can be considered a major measure of a health care system.
What is access determines whether people can actually obtain needed services, regardless of whether those services exist?
The importance of considering health determinants beyond medical care.
What is health influenced by social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and biological factors?
This concept recognizes that a person's health is influenced by factors such as behavior, environment, social conditions, and access to resources, not just medical care.
What are health determinants?
These are examples of major components of the U.S. health care delivery system, including public health, long-term care, military health care, and managed care.
What are health care subsystems?