Subsytems of US Health Care Delivery(Chapter One)
Covers most Americans in private and public health insurance programs through contracts.
What is managed care?
Reform that increases health insurance coverage to those who are uninsured.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
The absence of illness or disease and the state of optimal capacity of an individual to perform expected social roles and tasks such as work, school, and household chores.
What is health?
Classified into four categories: environment, behavior and lifestyle, heredity, and medical care.
What are the major determinants of health?
Initiatives were founded on the integration of medical care with preventative services, health promotion, and education; integration of personal and community health care; and increased access to integrated care services.
What is Healthy People initiative?
A program financed by the Department of Defense that covers Families and dependents of active-duty or retired career military personnel as they are treated at these hospitals or dispensaries.
What is TriCare?
Health Care delivery is largely in private hands, but health care is only partially governed by the free market system.
What is a Quasi-Market?
Recognized by a person's perceptions and evaluation of how he or she feels.
What is Illness?
This factor encompass the physical, socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and sociocultural dimensions of life.
What is enviornment factors?
The social conditions in which people are born, live, and work are the single important determinant of health status.
What is Social Determinants of Health?
Persons with health needs but inadequate resources to address them, including individuals who are poor or uninsured, belong to a certain minority group, or are of a certain immigration status, or live in geographically or economically disadvantaged communities.
What is a Special or Vulnerable population?
Free competitions among providers based on price and quality of services.
What is a free health care market?
Refer to overall satisfaction with life and with self-perceptions of health.
What is quality of life?
This factor includes diet, excercise, stress, risky or unhealthy behaviors, and other choices that may contribute to significant health problems.
What is behavioral factors?
Directly guards the welfare of the nation through product safety regulations, screening food and water sources, enforcing safe work environments, and other ways.
What is Public Policy?
A network of health care providers and organizations that provide coordinated health care to a population and are responsible for the health outcomes and health status of the population.
What is an Integrated Delivery System(IDS)?
A system where the government controls the planning, finances, and delivery of health care services.
What is a centrally controlled health care system?
Between the acute and chronic extremes on the disease severity continuum, but also has acute features.
What is a subacute condition?
A key determinant of health because genetic factors predispose individuals to certain diseases.
What is Heredity?
To protect employees from the potential dangers of a unsafe environment at the workplace.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Adminstrations (OSHA)?
Medical and nonmedical care for individuals with chronic health issues and disabilities that prevent them from performing regular daily tasks, including both health care and support services for daily living.
What is Long-term Care?
Requires screening and evaluation of all patients, provision of necessary stabilizing treatment, and hospital admission when necessary, regardless of ability to pay.
What is The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986?
This Health incorporates the spiritual dimension in addition to the physical, mental, and social aspects of optimal health.
What is Holistic Health?
The greater the economic gap between the rich and the poor in a given geographic area, the worse the overall health of the population in that area.
What is income inequality?
A conceptual framework to help physicians and patients make treatment decisions and considers cost along with more traditional clinical outcomes.
What is ASCO framework?