Healthcare Delivery
This term refers to personal health care provided to an individual on an outpatient basis.
What is ambulatory care?
This is the regular amount individuals pay for their health insurance coverage, regardless of whether they use medical services or not.
What is a premium?
This term, which has replaced the word "compliance," refers to patients following their doctor's instructions and recommendations.
What is adherence?
The process by which a person becomes a member of a group or society and acquires values, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and a sense of social identity.
What is socialization?
These centers are designed for residents who require ongoing medical care such as respiratory therapy, physical therapy, or dialysis.
What are skilled nursing centers?
Unlike most developed nations, the United States does not have this type of health care system, which guarantees coverage for all citizens regardless of their ability to pay.
What is universal healthcare?
This model elevates the patient to the level of full participant in the physician-patient relationship.
What is the mutual participation model?
A large configuration of programs and services that also includes a medical school.
What is an academic health center?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services suspended routine nursing home inspections during this global health crisis, contributing to increased mortality in many facilities.
What is COVID-19?
Under the ACA, states were encouraged to expand this program, with the federal government covering all costs in the first few years and most costs in the years that followed.
What is Medicaid?
Studies show that both women and men patients talk more and disclose more medically relevant information when seeing physicians of this gender.
What is women physicians?
This term describes the attitude physicians are expected to maintain: caring about their patients while avoiding excessive emotional involvement or over-identification with them.
What is detached concern?
This type of medical center is legally obligated or mission-driven to provide healthcare to individuals regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.
What is a safety net hospital?
People in this group are often uninsured because they earn just enough to disqualify them from Medicaid but not enough to afford private insurance.
What is (or who are) the working poor?
This approach to patient care involves addressing the patient as a whole person, maintaining a continuous doctor-patient relationship, utilizing both biotechnical and interpersonal skills, and negotiating the respective needs and expectations of both patient and physician.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
This term describes an awareness among medical students that the knowledge base of medicine is incomplete.
What is tolerance for uncertainty?
This practice describes for-profit hospitals locating exclusively in affluent suburban areas, targeting middle- and upper-class patients with private insurance through selective marketing campaigns.
What is cream skimming?
This term describes the effort to invest in health care as a means to generate profit.
What is medical entrepreneurialism?
The setting of the medical encounter, length of the encounter, the mental state of the patient, mismatched expectations, language barriers, and physician communication style may all prevent this important aspect of the physician-patient relationship.
What is therapeutic communication?
This 1910 study assessed 150 medical schools in the United States and Canada, leading to reformed admission criteria and curriculum; but while raising standards, it also resulted in the exclusion of women and African Americans from the physician workforce.
What is Flexner Report?