Chapter 2 - Foundations of US Health Care Delivery Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is health?
- absence of illness or disease
- emphasizes clinical diagnosis and medical interventions
What is health care delivery?
refers to the delivery of medical care or illness care
What is holistic medicine?
- refers to treating the WHOLE person: physical, mental, social, and
- tied to one’s beliefs, values, morals, and practices
Illness:
one’s own perception of how they are feeling
ex) pain, depression, uncomfortable, anxiety
Disease:
determined AFTER the evaluation of the medical provider
Acute Conditions
relatively severe, episodic, treatable – often new
Chronic Conditions
less severe, lasts longer in duration
-patient may not recover from condition, but can be kept under control
Quality of Life
- perception of how satisfied with your experiences are while you are receiving care
- overall satisfaction of life and with self-perceptions of health and medical interventions
- DIFFERENT FOR EACH PERSON
Determinants of health fall into what FOUR categories?
- environment
- behavior and lifestyle
- heredity
- medical care
Environment:
- physical, socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and sociocultural dimensions of life
- the greater the economic gap the worst the health status will be
- education and health status
- developmental health
Behavior and Lifestyle:
diet, exercise, stress, risky or unhealthy behaviors
Heredity:
predisposed to certain conditions
Medical Care:
access to preventative and curative health services
BEING PROACTIVE FOR YOUR CARE
Cultural Beliefs and Values
- finding out what’s important to each specific society
ex) whats important to millennial won’t be important to Gen. X and Baby Boomers
Market Justice
- proposes free distribution of HC
- distributed on people’s willingness to pay
- emphasizes individual vs. collective responsibility for health
- everyone responsible for themselves, individualistic
Social Justice
- societal responsibility
- wants to et a central agency take over (government)
- collectively financed and available to all citizens regardless of their ability to pay
- everyone contributes and helps each other, put everything into a big pot and people can take as they need
Healthy People Initiatives
- designed in 10 year increments by government
- founded on the integration of medical care with preventive services, health promotion, and education
Benchmarks that are monitored within Healthy People’s Initiative:
Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors
EMPOWER individuals toward making informed health decisions
Measure the impact of prevention activities
Healthy People 202’s overarching goals:
Attaining high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, injury, and premature death
Achieving health equity, eliminating disparities, and improving the health of ALL groups
Creating social and physical environments that promote good health for all
Promoting quality of life, healthy development, and health behaviors across all life stages
Public Health
focus on improving the health and well-being of the TOTAL population
To improve the nations health and decrease differences
Social Determinants of Health (SES, demographics, education, employment, etc)
Public Health’s Social and Medical Points of Intervention:
Policy Interventions - OSHA
Community Based Interventions – fighting childhood obesity through interventions within the school lunch programs
Health Care Interventions - EMR
Individual Level Interventions – behavior changing strategies (reduce smoking and more exercise
