U.S. Healthcare
About how long is life expectancy in the United States?
What is 78.5 years?
What two countries are specifically used to help compare healthcare delivery with the United States in the chapter introduction?
What are Canada and France?
Air pollution, contaminated food and water, radiation, and toxic chemicals are examples of this type of health determinant.
What are physical environmental factors?
What helps define a society's ideals?
What is a value system?
In Patient History #1, what was Joan's blood pressure?
What is 165/102?
What determines a person's access to healthcare services in the U.S.?
What is insurance coverage?
Which country's healthcare is financed by the government through general taxes but delivered by private providers?
What is Canada?
This health determinant can predispose a person to certain diseases through genetic factors passed down from previous generations.
What is heredity?
Traditional U.S. cultural beliefs and values have primarily been based on which principle?
What is market justice?
Joan reports drinking two to three glasses of wine each evening to reduce stress, making this health determinant a concern.
What is substance abuse?
Approximately what percentage of total U.S. healthcare expenditures is privately financed, mostly through employers?
What is 55%?
In which country do private nonprofit insurance companies called sickness funds collect contributions and pay physicians and hospitals?
What is Germany?
This health determinant includes diet, exercise, stress, and risky or unhealthy choices.
What is behavior and lifestyle?
Under this principle, medical care and benefits are distributed based on a person's willingness and ability to pay.
What is market justice?
Gerrard’s inability to stay oriented to time and place makes this health determinant important to consider.
What is mental health?
This 2010 law expanded health insurance coverage in the United States but did not achieve universal coverage.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Which country's healthcare delivery infrastructure is managed by the government along with financing of its tax-supported national health insurance program?
What is the United Kingdom?
Preventive and curative health services fall under this determinant, which can influence both individual and population health.
What is medical care/access to care?
This principle views the equitable distribution of healthcare as a responsibility of society rather than the individual.
What is social justice
After Gerrard reports being beaten during a robbery, this health determinant becomes a concern.
What is injury violence?
In the U.S. healthcare system, this sector plays the primary role, while the government serves as its subsidiary.
What is the private sector?
In Canada, healthcare is financed through this source, even though healthcare services themselves are delivered by private providers.
What are general taxes?
Heart disease, diabetes, stroke, sexually transmitted diseases, and cancer are five health problems that may be directly linked to this determinant.
What is behavior and lifestyle?
According to the chapter, the steady influx of immigrants from different parts of the world has increasingly defined American society by these groups, which contribute to different views about health, illness, and death.
What are subcultures?
Because Gerrard’s medical history is very inadequate, this health determinant should be considered.
What are immunizations?