U.S. Healthcare System Basics
what is The approximate life expectancy in the United States.
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The percentage of total U.S. healthcare expenditures financed through private sources, mostly employers.
What is about 55%?
This subsystem of U.S. health care delivers services through HMOs and similar organizations.
What is managed care?
This level is always used when considering health determinants.
What is the individual level?
This theory of distributive justice has traditionally been dominant in American cultural values.
What is market justice?
This entity plays a subsidiary role to the private sector in U.S. health care.
What is the government
The percentage of U.S. healthcare expenditures financed by the government.
Response: What is about 45%?
This subsystem provides healthcare services specifically to active-duty service members and their families.
What is military medical care?
These four dimensions of life make up environmental factors affecting health.
What are physical, socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural factors?
This theory of distributive justice takes a secondary role to market justice in traditional U.S. values.
What is social justice?
This is what determines an individual's access to health care in the U.S. system.
What is insurance coverage?
The percentage of people who say they can't access medical care as soon as they notice a health issue.
What is around 42%?
This subsystem addresses ongoing care needs for the elderly and chronically disabled.
What is long-term care?
These four physical environmental factors are named as affecting people's health.
What are air pollution, food and water contaminants, radiation, and toxic chemicals?
This term describes combining market justice and social justice principles in the U.S. system.
What is fusion of market justice and social justice?
The U.S. healthcare delivery system focuses on this type of care rather than prevention.
What is acute care?
These three words describe the overall result of the U.S. healthcare system's cost and access structure.
What is high cost, unequal access, and average outcome?
Health care in the U.S. is delivered under these kinds of conditions, rather than a truly free market.
What are imperfect market conditions?
This generation tends to view socialism more positively and capitalism more negatively than the general population.
What are Millennials?
This fundamental question asks how a healthcare system can make essential services available to all members of society.
What is the question of distributive justice (equity)?
his term describes the lack of a single organization overseeing and coordinating the U.S. healthcare system.
What is no central governing agency (little integration and coordination)?
This 2010 law expanded health insurance in the U.S. but did not achieve universal coverage.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
This subsystem focuses on population-level health functions like clean water and sanitation.
What is the public health system?
This category of determinants of health is distinguished from medical care determinants in Chapter 2.
What are social determinants of health?
This national initiative focuses on determinants of health as a public health strategy.
What is the Healthy People initiative?