Public Health's Role in Health Care
According to Charles Winslow, Public Health is
What is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, control of community infections and education of individuals regarding hygiene to ensure a standard of living for health maintenance?
Services that involve an overnight stay of a patient.
What is Inpatient?
Extension of tertiary care and refers to highly specialized cutting-edge tertiary care. Mostly performed in research facilities and high specialized facilities
What is Quaternary Care?
Out of pocket payments
What is patients who pay entirely or partially for services rendered?
Prevent disease progression by early detection and intervention
What is Secondary?
•Public Hospitals
•Voluntary or Community
•Proprietary Hospital
What is Three major types of hospitals?
What is MD?
Doctor of Medicine
This program was designed to move Medicare patients into more cost effective health insurance programs-- it covers all services in Part A and B.
What is Medicare Part C: Medicare Advantage
The study of disease distribution and patterns among populations
What is Epidemiology?
Services does not require a patient to stay overnight.
What is Outpatient?
Focus not only on the disease but also the entire person.
What is Holistic Approach?
Who are third party payers?
What is Insurance companies, managed care organizations and the government?
Conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks
What is Social Determinants of Health?
Legally responsible for hospital operations.
What is board of trustees?
Hospitalizations, routine surgery, specialty consultation, and rehabilitation.
What is Secondary Care?
Coverage gap, "donut hole"
What is Medicare D?
The assurance of the conditions for optimal health for all people
What is Health Equity?
A new model for delivering healthcare- it moves information electronically to consumers quickly and efficiently without a patient physically seeing a healthcare provider.
What is Telemedicine?
Physicians preferring to practice in urban and suburban areas where there is a higher probability of increased income.
What is geographic maldistribution?
Optional Medicaid benefit-- focuses on community health services to medicaid enrollees with disabilities.
What is Community First Choice?