Definitions I
This is a statement of a decision regarding a goal in health care and a plan for achieving that goal.
What is health policy?
These are rules of conduct or procedure; they result from a combination of legislation, judicial decisions, constitutional decisions, and administrative actions.
What are laws?
The president, the vice president, and the administrative agencies
What is the executive branch of government?
This historical woman successfully persuaded Congress to ratify the Treaty of Geneva, which allowed the Red Cross to perform humanitarian efforts in times of peace. This organization has had a lasting influence on national and international policies
Who is Clara Barton?
This act provides welfare for high-risk mothers and children. Benefits were later expanded to include health care provisions for older adults and the handicapped. This major governmental action was the enactment of legislation for Medicare and Medicaid.
What is the Social Security Act and Administration?
This specifies nursing leadership that influences and shapes health policy and nursing practice.
What is nursing policy?
These are rules that govern organizations and their positions on issues with which the organization is concerned
What are organizational policies?
This branch cannot decide a “political question”; the issue must be an actual case or controversy.
What is the judicial branch? (Supreme Court)
This historical woman founded the politically active American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses, which later became the National League for Nursing.
Who is Lavina Dock?
This act consolidated all existing public health legislation into one law. Since then, many new pieces of legislation have become amendments. Some of its provisions, either in the original law or in amendments, provided for or established the following: health services for migrant workers, family planning services, NIH, nurse training acts, prevention and primary care services, rural health clinics, and communicable disease control.
What is the Public Health Act?
This is a fundraising group usually associated with an organization. Money is raised from the members with the purpose of financially supporting political causes.
What is a political action committee (PAC)?
This can be defined as the branch of public policy that advances social welfare and enhances participation in society
What is social policy?
The Senate and the House of Representatives (Congress)
What is the legislative branch?
This historical woman fought for human rights and lobbied for federal funds to train nurses and physicians.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This act required that employers offer federally qualified HMOs as a healthcare coverage option to employees and established that states were responsible for the oversight of HMOs. Although initially it was not successful in stimulating HMO growth, this legislation has had a long-term effect on the growth of managed care.
What is the Health Management Organization Act?
This type of law typically has three major areas of practice: police power, disease and injury prevention, and the law of populations.
What is public health law?
These rules that govern worksites and identify the institution's goals, operation, and treatment of employees.
What are institutional policies?
This branch must present a bill to the president before it can become law.
What is the legislative branch?
She was a nursing leader in establishing hospice care in the United States—modeled after similar services offered in the United Kingdom—in the 1970s.
Who is Florence Wald?
This law offered protections for patient privacy and confidentiality. Critical insurance issues were the portability of coverage and limits on the restrictions health plans place on coverage for preexisting conditions. This law established that insurers cannot set limits on coverage of longer than 12 months.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)?
These are any laws passed by a legislative body at the federal, state, or local level.
What are statutes?
These are departments of the executive branch with the authority to implement or administer particular legislation.
What are administrative agencies?
At the federal level: district courts, circuit courts, and the Supreme Court
At the state level: state and county courts
What is the judicial branch?
She is a nurse-midwife who crusaded for freestanding birth centers in this country, being influential in the opening of New York City's first birthing center in 1975.
One of the primary intents of this act is to reduce the number of uninsured Americans. It requires all U.S. citizens and legal residents to have qualifying health coverage, whether provided through employers, individually purchased, or provided by federal plans. It also dramatically changes eligibility requirements for Medicaid.
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?