Injury/MCH
Mental/Environmental Health
Healthcare Definitions
Healthcare Infrastructure
Potpourri
100

What are the 1st 1000 days in reference to?

The period between conception and age 2 and is a critical period of development

100

Define the term "resilience"

  • Resilience is an individual’s ability to adapt to stress and adversity in a healthy manner
  • The capacity to rise above difficult circumstances, allowing youth to exist in a flawed world while moving forward with optimism and confidence
100

What is co-insurance in health insurance?

Share of costs paid for health care services calculated as a percentage of the amount for service

100

Which component of Medicare (Part A, Part B, Part C, or Part D) can include vision, dental, and hearing coverage?

Part C

100

Smoking, alcohol consumption, poor nutrition, and physical activity account for about 1 million deaths each year in US: True or False?

True

200

What is the leading cause of death due to injuries?

Poisoning

200

What is the role of federal and state government in environmental health?

  • Both play a role
  • Feds regulation/set standards, states enforce/implement
200

What is cost sharing?

The portion of covered medical expenses that you are responsible for paying out of pocket (including deductibles, coinsurance, copayments)

200

HMOS are health plans that allow beneficiaries to seek care from any provider, even if they are out of network: True or False?

False

200

Which type of interventions are the most successful in modifying behaviors?

Modifying the environment

300

What are the 3 E’s of Injury Prevention?

  • Education
  • Enforcement
  • Engineering
300

What are 3 areas /strategies which are focused on promoting resilience?

  • Capability
  • Attachment and belonging
  • Community, culture, or spirituality
300

What is the difference between a health disparity and a health care disparity?

  • Health disparity is differences in incidence, prevalence, morbidity, and mortality among populations
  • A health care disparity is differences in access, coverage, availability, and quality of care
300

What are the 5 PH insurance programs in the US? 

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Children’s health insurance program (CHIP)
  • Veterans
  • Prisoners
300

What is health literacy?

Degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions

400

What are the four categories of environmental influences which affect maternal and child health?

  • Infectious pathogens
  • Environmental chemicals
  • Prescription Medication
  • Alcohol and Drug Use

Will also take physical/built/environment, biological, sociobehavioral, and chemical

400

What is the number one issue in environmental health compliance?

High costs 

400

What is the PPACA?

The patient protection and affordability care act

400

What is the role of federal and state government in Medicaid?

Federal government sets standards and fund, and states are entitled to federal funds which match state contributions

400

What are the 4 effects of low health literacy?

  • Increased likelihood for visiting an emergency room
  • Additional inpatient hospital stays
  • Lower likelihood of following treatment plans
  • Increased mortality rates
500

Provide a detailed example of the biological/infectious pathogen category of environmental influences which affect maternal and child health

Infectious pathogens - Syphilis, rubella, toxoplasmosis, herpes

500

What is a persistent organic pollutant?

  • Toxic synthetic (man-made) chemicals that adversely affect human health and the environment – Carbon based
  • Can be transported by wind and water, therefore have very wide reach
  • Can pass through the food chain due to biomagnification
  • they are resistant to degradation and accumulate in air, soil, water, and living
    organisms, which has led to widespread and chronic exposure
  • POPs are known endocrine disruptors and can cross the placenta and be transferred in breast milk
500

What is the Medicare Donut Hole?

Another name for Medicare Part D coverage gap – people entered donut hole when their total drug costs exceed the coverage limit

500

Which 4 measures were implemented to control health care costs in the US?

  • Managed care
  • Limits on new facilities and technologies
  • Incentive payments for providers
  • Rationing
500

What is the Prevention Agenda, what is the purpose, and who does it affect?

  • NY’s Health Improvement plan
  • Published every 5 years
  • Collaborative to decide on priorities to address
  • Affects public/communities/counties