U.S. HEALTHCARE
GLOBAL HEALTHCARE
MEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY & ALTERNATIVE CARE
MIDTERM REVIEW (FOUNDATIONS)
GUEST SPEAKERS
100
REQUIRED UPFRONT PAYMENT BEFORE INSURANCE COVERAGE BEGINS
What is Deductible?
100
HEALTHCARE MODEL THAT GERMANY MOST CLOSELY RESEMBLES
What is the Bismarck Model?
100
TREND IN AMERICANS’ TRUST IN MEDICAL SCIENTISTS
What is declining trust?
100
This concept describes how societies move from high death rates due to infectious diseases to predominantly chronic, degenerative causes of death as they develop
What is the epidemiological transition?
100
THE GROUP THAT EXPERIENCES THE HIGHEST MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE IN THE US.
Who are Black women?
200
THE PROGRAM EXPANDED UNDER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
What is Medicaid?
200
HEALTHCARE MODEL FUNDED THROUGH TAXES WITH GOVERNMENT-EMPLOYED PHYSICIANS
What is the Beveridge Model?
200
REPLACING MEDICAL CARE WITH NON-MEDICAL TECHNIQUES
What is alternative care?
200
Places where a large number of similarly situated individuals are cut off from wider society and lead an enclosed, formally administered life.
What are total institutions?
200
A PROCESS CRITICIZED FOR "TURNING NORMAL HUMAN EXPERIENCES INTO MEDICAL ISSUES."
What is medicalization?
300
CALCULATE MAYA'S PAYMENT
$1,500 deductible. Her MRI costs $900. Her insurance applies no copay until the deductible is met.
What is $900?
300
THE MAIN REASON CITIZENS SUPPORT GOVERNMENT NEGOTIATION WITH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES
What is lowering drug prices?
300
REJECTING THE BIOMEDICAL TENDENCY TO TREAT THE BODY AS A SET OF FIXABLE PARTS, THIS WORLDVIEW UNDERSTANDS HEALTH AS EMERGING FROM BALANCE BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL SELF, INNER LIFE, AND THE NON-MATERIAL FORCES THAT CONNECT PEOPLE TO COMMUNITY AND THE NATURAL WORLD.
What is mind-body-spirit model?
300
THE 3 COMPONENTS OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
What are gross national income, years of education, and life expectancy?
300
This feminist, community-based model, according to Daniela Sanchez, reframes abortion care as collective mutual aid. It supports people through self-managed abortion, contesting the medical monopoly over reproductive health, and advancing reproductive justice principles.
What is acompañamiento?
400
THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF THE U.S. HEALTHCARE MODEL (EX...PUBLIC, PRIVATE, FOR-PROFIT)
The US health system is a mix of public and private, for-profit and nonprofit insurers and health care providers
400
NAME THE COUNTRY. This high-income country spends nearly twice as much per capita on healthcare as its peers, in part because it lacks centralized bargaining power, relies on a multi-payer insurance market, and allows providers to set prices with minimal regulation.
What is the United States?
400
According to Mueller & Hook (2013), this is the only legitimate limit on what clinicians should adopt under the technological imperative.
What is the state of the art? (cutting-edge technology is also accepted).
400
These structural forces (i.e.housing policy, labor laws, and neighborhood investments) set the stage for health outcomes that later appear as downstream problems.
What are upstream factors?
400
This form of gendered inequality operates at the state level and helps explain why some pregnant people are more likely to undergo C-sections—reflecting obstetric overmedicalization and deprioritization of women’s preferences.
What is state-level structural sexism?
500
CALCULATE AISHA’S PAYMENT,
SHE HAS A $3,000 DEDUCTIBLE (WITH $1,000 ALREADY PAID), A $250 ER COPAY, A $100 AMBULANCE COPAY, NO COINSURANCE, AND RECEIVES A $12,000 ER BILL AND A $1,200 AMBULANCE BILL.
What is $2,350?
500
THESE TWO HEALTHCARE MODELS ARE COMBINED IN COUNTRY Z, WHERE A NATIONAL INSURANCE FUND AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLS ALL LEGAL RESIDENTS.NON-CITIZENS ARE EXCLUDED AND MUST PAY PROVIDERS DIRECTLY. DOCTORS ARE PRIVATELY PAID, AND YET WAIT TIMES ARE SHORT BECAUSE THE SINGLE PAYER SETS UNIFORM PRICES.
What are the single-payer model and the out-of-pocket model?
500
This income group never exceeds about 5% of U.S. medical students from 2007–2017.
Name the quintile and provide justification from a sociological theory that best explains why their representation stays so low.
Who are students from the lowest income quintile, and what is (student chooses the theory/concept and applies it well)?
500
This is the reason life expectancy appeared to collapse during COVID-19.
What is the fact that period life expectancy is a one-year snapshot that plummets when temporary mortality spikes occur?
500
Adia’s study found that racial and ethnic disparities in medical debt were largest in the share of people who had ________.
What is "any medical debt?"