Definitions and Concepts
This term is described as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being
What is health?
This category includes are genetics, behavior, social environment
What are the determinants of health?
These people are professionals that diagnose and treat illness
Who are physicians?
This system focuses on individual obligation and ability to pay
What is the Market Justice?
This national insurance program covers people 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
Health Care Delivery is the delivery of medical care or illness care
What is Health Care Delivery?
This includes education, income, and housing
What is social environment?
This type of Organization contracts with providers to deliver services to enrollees and is the dominant model in the U.S.
What is a Managed Care Organization?
Certification standards and Medicaid/Medicare policies come from this level of authority.
What is the government?
This type of care supports people with chronic illness in daily living
What is long-term care?
This term describes "organized, integrated, and financed system for delivering health services to a defined population.
What is a health care system?
This determinant includes the physical conditions in the environment in which people are born, live, work, and age
What is the physical environment?
Managed care prefers patients to visit this type of provider over the ER
What is a primary care provider?
The US health care system is a blend of these two justice models
What are market justice and social justice?
These 10 core activities form the backbone of public health services
What are the Essential Public Health Survices?
This concept refers to treatments that are "life saving, essential and ultimately cost effective"
What are essential health benefits?
This term refers to the interplay between genetics, behaviors, social factors, and medical care, and explains why health outcomes differ across populations
What are health disparities?
Unlike other developed nations, the US lacks this kind of governing structure over its health system.
What is a central governing agency ?
This emphasizes community well-being and shared responsibility
What is social justice?
This term refers to coordinating all types of care across providers.
What is integrated delivery systems?
This term describes the risk assumed by an insurer when it agrees to provide coverage, particulary in managed care, where the cost of services may exceed collected premiums.
What is underwriting?
What are Indicators of Health?
self reported health status
life expectancy
morbidity
mental well being
social functioning
functional limitations
disability
spiritual well being
This model outlines the four key functions integrated by managed care systems: financing, insurance, delivery, and payment.
What is the quad-function model?
This term describes the practice of allocating health care resources based on individual purchasing power under a market justice model.
What is rationing by ability to pay?
This 1988 institute of medicine report emphasized the need for a stronger public health infrastructure and defined public health role in protecting and improving community health
What is the Future of Public Health?