Health care providers and professionals
13.6% of the workforce
What percentage of U.S workforce is employed in healthcare?
1929, Baylor university
When and where did health insurance begin in the US?
Physical activity, Overweight/obesity, Tobacco use, Substance abuse, Responsible sexual behavior, Mental health, Injury and violence, Environmental quality , Immunization, Access to health care
What are examples of health determinants?
27 million (Commonwealth Foundation, 2017)
No central governing agency and little integration and coordination
What is the main characteristic of the U.S health care system?
A professional who is educated and trained in a specialized field of health care and has responsibility for the delivery of services associated with medical care.
What is an Allied Health Professional?
Against the advice of insurance professionals, Blue Cross begins offering private coverage for hospital care in dozens of states.
Factors include air pollution, food and water contaminants, radiation, and toxic chemicals.
What are physical environmental factors?
Expands coverage and increase access to care
What is the primary goal?
A network of organizations that provides or arranges to provide a coordinated continuum of services to a defined population and is willing to be held clinically and fiscally accountable for the outcomes and health status of the population serviced
What is Integrated delivery system (IDS)?
A physician who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients.
What is a Hospitalist?
Phase of the medical delivery system from the middle part of the 18th century until the latter part of the 19th century. Health care was not grounded in science and was delivered in a free market.
What is the Preindustrial era?
Include diet, exercise, stress, risky or unhealthy behaviors, and other choices that may contribute to significant health problems.
What are behavioral and lifestyle factors?
In the United States, this act expanded health insurance but has not achieved universal coverage.
The affordable care act?
Prolongs survival at a reasonable cost
How does health care address quality over quantity concerns?
Health care workers are increasingly using team-based approach to deliver health care.
What type of approach is used by health care workers to deliver health care?
Phase of the medical delivery system that began in the late 19th century. The medical profession grew as a result of urbanization, new scientific discoveries, and reforms in medical education
What is the Postindustrial era?
Environment, behavior and lifestyle, heredity, and medical care
What are the major Health Determinants?
President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare and Medicaid into law.
Scientific and technological advances often create a demand for new services, despite shrinking financial resources.
What is Technology Driven?
Patient-centered model is a model of medicine in which providers manage and coordinate care and are accountable for disease prevention and wellness.
What is a model of medicine in which providers manage and coordinate care and are accountable for disease prevention and wellness?
Period in the evolution of the U.S. medical delivery system that is characterized by the domination of corporations rather than individuals in decision making regarding care delivery and payment.
What is the Corporate era?
Four foundational health measures serve as indicators of progress toward achieving the aforementioned goals: general health status, quality of life and well-being, determinants of health, and disparities among the population.
What are strategies to improve health?
Major push in the last decade have been for large-scale government-sponsored expansion of health insurance or intrusion in the private practice of medicine
What is Socialized medicine?
Under a system characterized by market justice, health care production is determined by how willing and able customers are to purchase health care products and services at prevailing market prices.
What is market justice?