Chapter 1
(Characteristics)
(Characteristics)
This is the dominant healthcare delivery system in the United States.
What is Managed Care?
Illness is determined by this person's perception.
Who is the patient?
Medical training prior to the 1870's.
What is individual apprenticeship?
Healthcare expenditures in this country were 17% of GDP in 2019.
What is the United States?
This is "a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being..."
What is the WHO's definition of health?
This patient transport system was pioneered during the civil war.
What are Ambulances?
The Military medical care system available to active duty military personnel as well as uniformed non-military in the Public Health Service and NOAA.
What is Tricare?
They could be a person's environment, behavior, heredity and access to medical care.
What are determinants of health?
This public health insurance program is available to the elderly, disabled and those with certain end-stage diseases.
What is Medicare?
This is one of the few developed nations that we have studied that does not guarantee access to basic preventative healthcare to its citizens.
What is the United States of America?
This is designed to improve and protect the health of a population and is an example of social justice.
What is Public Health?
This public health insurance program is available only to the very poor. It requires a means test to qualify which is established by the states.
What is Medicaid?
This model of integrated organization is designed to improve quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare and is responsible for the health outcomes and health status of the population it serves.
What is an Accountable Care Organization?
These interventions are critical in counteracting negative social determinants of health and often target behaviors such as smoking, drinking and using drugs.
What are individual level interventions?
Labor and Political instability not a problem in the U.S. unlike Europe, Federal government has less direct control over social policy, Anti-German/Anti-socialist sentiment in the U.S., AMA opposed national healthcare initiatives, middle-class values of capitalism, middle-class averse to paying higher taxes.
What are the 6 historical reasons that national health insurance attempts have failed in the U.S.?