Health Care Delivery & Health Policy
This act has dramatically reduced the number of individuals who lack health insurance coverage.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has increased the health system’s focus on which of the following
a) Cures
b) Prevention
c) Palliative Care
d) Rehabilitation
B - What is Prevention?
True/false - 25% of all care delivered in the US is funded by the government.
True
What is the National Health Service
Population Health considers influences on health that occur inside or outside the health system?
What is outside?
A fee-for-service payment system with multiple, complex and confusing reimbursement processes.
What is a dysfunctional payment system?
Blood pressure screenings, pap smears, and mammograms are types of what kind of prevention service?
What are secondary prevention services?
The % of private (non-governmental) hospitals that are non-profit is about 50%, 80% or 70%.
Three quarters of England's NHS comes from what (payroll tax, philanthropic donations, general taxation)
What is general taxation
(Medical or Population Health Model)
what is the Population Health Model
Some examples include a) improving quality, b) improving access and coverage, c) slowing the growth of health care expenditures, and d) encouraging healthy behavior.
What are major issues of the US Health Care system?
What are TERTIARY prevention services?
American military veterans receive care from 305K health professionals at a system of 1200 hospitals and clinics called
What is the VA? or What is the VHA?
In the English health care system, about two-thirds of general practitioners and dentists are paid through which of the following means (straight salary, fee for service, or a combination of capitation and fee for service)
What is a combination of capitation and fee for service?
- Urban design and housing
- Availability of healthy foods
- Access to primary care
- Safe food and water
What is Access to Primary Care
Improving the patient experience, reducing the per-capita-costs of healthcare, and improving the health of populations of patients.
What is the Triple Aim?
Mary Jane took her son, Johnny, to the doctor for his annual check up. Johnny is not sick and is asymptomatic. The type of care that Johnny received is called (prehospital care, specialty care or primary care)
What is primary care?
About 1/3 of all healthcare spending is spent on this type of service (clinical services, physician services, hospital care)
What is hospital care?
Which is NOT a characteristic of the US Health Care system?
Highest costs in the world
Lack of universal health insurance
Low mortality rates
What are low mortality rates
Which of the following is an intervention of the medical model concerning the obesity epidemic?
- zoning law changes
- menu labeling
- educational policies that encourage exercise
- Lab tests to rule out hormonal causes
What is lab tests...
The debate in the US about whether healthcare is a "right" or a "good"
What is tension between "the free market" and "government control"
Agnes is on medication to control her diabetes. She sees a team of caregivers to help her manage her symptoms including a dietician, physical therapist, primary care physician and a nephrologist (kidney doctor). The type of care she receives is called (primary care, quaternary care, chronic care).
What is chronic care.
The health care sector accounts for what percent of the US GDP?
- 5%
- 15%
- 20%
What is 20%
- 90%
- 75%
- 10%
What is 90%
T/F - your level of education is one of the most predictive factors of life expectancy.
True