concept of health and disease Flashcards

Question

what are the functions and role of a healthcare providers

Answer 1

1. Provide culturally appropriate and accessible health education and related information using up-to-date gadgets and technology [Teach people about health in a way that fits their culture and is easy to understand — often using modern technology.] 2. Ensure people have access to needed health services [ex: clinics, check ups or treatments] 3. Offer informal counseling and support with emphasis on preventive medicine [emotional support and advice, especially for preventing illness and staying healthy] 4. Collectively advocate for people and the community within health and social services [Speak up for the needs of patients and the community, especially in health and social services.] 5. Deliver direct, basic, or screening healthcare services 6. Establish health services individual and community levels

Answer 2

1. Respect the rights of the patients 2. Solicit informed consent from the patients before treatment and examination 3. Attend to patient needs based on authority given 4. Deliver services effectively and efficiently without compromising quality 5. Provide a clear policy about healthcare professionals reporting concerns about risks for patients 6. Provide a safe working environment 7. Respect healthcare personnel 8. Ensure that continuous care is available 9. Be within reach, or on stand-by in a specific place 10. Provide on duty services 11. Render services within the required number of hours

Answer 3

1. Basic individual rights 2. Be treated with respect as a person 3. Have a written agreement covering the services the healthcare providers have agreed upon 4. Have privacy and confidentiality of personal information 5. Have a compensation that is just and fair, transparent, and accessible 6. Have sufficient personal time in work to practice selfcare 7. Have access to all needed tools to perform their duties 8. To not be required to put their lives, physical health, and the health of their families at risk 9. Are allowed to protect themselves from harm and its related acts

Answer 4

virtue *healthcare is about respecting human life and providing dignified care; not about providing treatment.

Answer 5

Prudence: Practical wisdom in decision making Justice: Equal treatment of everyone, including all patients Temperance: Self-control and restrain under pressure Fortitude: Courage to endure hardships and uncertainties

Answer 6

Fidelity to Trust - Respect patient confidentiality and their health first. Intellectual Honesty - Admit when you don’t know or have no experience. Courage - DO the right thing, even if it is hard. Benevelonce - Always act in the best interest of the patient to avoid causing harm and provide maximum benefit. “First do no harm” (primum non nocere) Compassion - Being empathetic and understanding towards patients’ emotional and physical pain. Truthfulness - Be honest and open with patients about their illness and choices of treatment.

Answer 7

Patients should communicate openly to healthcare providers Patients should provide their complete medical history Patients and physicians should mutually agree on the treatment and goals of therapy Patients should pay the physicians and healthcare providers with just compensation for services rendered Patients should be committed to health maintenance by demonstrating health enhancing behavior Patients should show concern for other people Patients should participate in medical education

Answer 8

As mandated in the Philippine Bill of Righ)s such as the Administrative Order No. 2008-0001, series of 2008 (Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act 9439) The right to: - information - choose medical care providers - religious belief - medical records - leave the hospital premises - express grievances

Answer 9

helping - formally known as prosocial behavior

Answer 10

the bystander intervention in emergency situation [ is to understand human behavior and mental processes. includes how people think, feel, and act in different situations.] [Psychology's main focus is the study of human behavior, but bystander intervention is a specific topic within social psychology.]

Answer 11

no. of others present (More people present in situation, the less an individual feels responsible therefore less help is provided)

Answer 12

Diffusion of responsibility

Answer 13

1. Noticing a person, event or situation that may require help 2. Interpreting the event as one that requires help 3. Assuming responsibility for helping 4. Deciding on and implementing the form of helping

Answer 14

it expresses knowing, doing, and helping as interrelated processes - Understand the patient’s situation. - Observe carefully to find out what the patient needs. - Use knowledge (what you've learned) to figure out how to help. - Take action based on that knowledge to care for the patient.

Answer 15

OCCUPATION A job or way to earn a living Can be any type of work (manual or office work) Doesn’t always need special training Can be blue-collar (manual) or white-collar (office) Example: cashier, factory worker, office assistant PROFESSION A special type of occupation Needs special training, skills, and higher education Based on deep knowledge learned through formal education Requires continued practice to master skills Example: doctor, teacher, lawyer, medical technologist

Answer 16

occupation - "an activity that serves as one’s regular source of livelihood; a vocation” [work or job a person does regularly to earn a living — like being a teacher, nurse, driver, or baker. involves skills and activities to make things or provide services.]

Answer 17

profession

Answer 18

healthcare profession

Answer 19

healthcare professional or practitioner

Answer 20

* Self-knowledge and self-acceptance * Pure and clear motivations * Strong will and determinations * Virtues: humanity, obedience, patience, courage, self-mastery * Service-oriented * Intellectual, moral and clinical wisdom * Propensity for continuous learning * Empathic presence

Answer 21

participate in "healthcare jursidiction" uphold his own health protect the health of others seek and access healthcare responsibly of truthfulness of compliance of inpatient conduct of recovery or maintenance of research participation of citizenship

Answer 22

patient's rights

Answer 23

* Right to considerate and respectful care * Right to obtain from his physician complete current information concerning his diagnosis, treatment and prognosis in terms the patient can reasonably be expected to understand * Right to receive from his physician information necessary to give informed consent prior to the start of any procedure and/or treatment * Right to refuse treatment * Right to every consideration of his privacy concerning his own medical care program * Right to expect that all communications and records pertaining to his care should be treated as confidential * Right that w/in its capacity, a hospital must make reasonable response to the request of patient for services * Right to obtain information as to any relationship of the hospital to other health care and educational institutions in so far as his care is concerned. * Right to be advised if the hospital proposes to engage in or perform human experimentation affecting his care or treatment. The patient has the right to refuse or participate in such research project. * Right to expect reasonable continuity of care * Right to examine and receive an explanation of his bill regardless of source of payment * Right to know what hospital rules and regulation apply to his conduct as a patient

Answer 24

Professional-patient relationship - Interpersonal communication patterns and the resultant development of interpersonal relations between providers and consumers w/in a health-care delivery system.

Answer 25

beneficence (doing good)

Answer 26

avoiding conflicts of interest [conflict of interest happens when a professional might be tempted to make decisions that benefit themselves instead of what's best for the patient.]

Answer 27

pledging to do no harm

Answer 28

HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS - the one giving the therapy - basic attitudes of the healthcare practitioner THE CLIENT/PATIENT - receiving the therapy - patient's needs and problems - participate actively in the process HEALTHCARE AND THE CONTENTS OF THE INTERACTION - methods to address the identified health problems - administered in variety - diagnosis and treatment - prevention of illness and promotion of health - maintenance of healthy status - health teaching - vaccination and immunization - environmental sanitation programs ENVIRONMENT - Non-therapeutic or deleterious - Home or hospital environment - Weather and atmosphere - Other people than the client and health practitioner

Answer 29

1. Caring and warm Emotional closeness Caring – deep genuine concern Warmth – friendliness consideration 2. Comforting Relief from discomfort 3. Courteous Recognition and acknowledgement of worth to a dignified person Propriety and consideration 4. Affirming, accepting and loving Receiving and welcoming atmosphere Patient will ventilate his biases and prejudices, needs and problems

Answer 30

successful outcome, Restoration of health and well-being

Answer 31

Sizing up one’s professional capacity before others. Maligning the credibility and reputation of a member of the team or of the same professional group to clients or others. Performing action beyond one’s professional functions and capacity. Having illicit and sexual relationship w/ a client. Embarrassing a colleague or subordinate before a patient. Breaking the rules on confidentiality and seal of secrecy. Transgressing professional code of ethics governing conduct of health care practitioners. Denying delivery of health care services on the basis of patient’s inability to pay even in matter of life and death. Engaging in fraudulent acts unbecoming of a professional. Fabricating patient’s record and medical certificates for any purposes.

Answer 32

malpractice [type of negligence]

Answer 33

negligence

Answer 34

gross negligence [worse than regular negligence]

Answer 35

defamation (2 types: slander and libel) [Slander: Spoken defamation Example: A nurse falsely says a doctor is addicted to drugs. Libel: Written defamation Example: Writing a false report that a patient has a disease they don’t have.]

Answer 36

* To live up, all times, to the commitment of serving the sick and the dying, the healthy and the unhealthy, and those who need a complete sense of well-being. * Empathy enables a health care provider to activate genuine therapeutic touch so essential to the therapeutic relationship w/ the patient. * Should exhibit exemplary degree of ethical and professional conduct in practicing the profession and avoid unprofessional practices deleterious to one’s relationship and profession.

Answer 37

1. Existing health care practitioner-patient relationship - There is a real doctor-patient relationship. 2. Conduct of negligence - The health care worker was careless or neglected their duty. 3. Negligent conduct causes harm to the patient - That carelessness caused harm to the patient. [You must prove: You were really the doctor’s patient. The doctor (or nurse) made a mistake or didn’t do their job properly. That mistake actually made you worse or caused harm.]

Answer 38

environment

Answer 39

Main Components of the Healthcare System: 1. Organization This includes official groups or associations like PAMET (Philippine Association of Medical Technologists) and WHO (World Health Organization). They help manage and set rules or guidelines for healthcare. 2. Internal System These are the structures inside the healthcare system, like how clinics, hospitals, or health centers are organized. Think of it as the "behind-the-scenes" work that helps everything run smoothly. 3. Healthcare Professionals Doctors, nurses, med techs, etc. “each profession is important equally,” = all healthcare workers are valuable—no one is more important than the other. 4. Individuals These are the patients or people who use healthcare services. They’re part of the system because their choices, needs, and actions affect their health. 5. Community This refers to the larger group or society. The health of a person is influenced by the community they live in, like the availability of clean water, education, or support systems. Focuses: 1. Task Focus: Points to what the system does, like providing care and health services. 2. Interrelationship Focus: Shows how all parts are connected and need to work together to function properly. 3. Bioethics and Philosophy Doing what’s right and fair in healthcare—treating everyone with respect and making ethical decisions.

Answer 40

Health Ethics - Focuses on what’s right or wrong when giving healthcare to patients. - It asks: “Is this action good or bad for the patient’s health and dignity?” - Example: Respecting a patient’s decision to refuse treatment. Professional Ethics - Focuses on how healthcare workers should behave as professionals. - It includes responsibilities to the public, their profession, and their patients. - Example: A medical technologist keeping patient results confidential [Health Ethics = Right and wrong in healthcare decisions. Professional Ethics = Right and wrong in professional behavior.]

Answer 41

Bioethics - Study of morality in health and life-related issues - covers issues like abortion, euthanasia, genetic testing, organ donation Morality - Refers to whether a human act is good or bad - means the goodness or badness of a human act. Ethics - The science/philosophy that studies morality - “why” behind right and wrong actions - uses reasoning and philosophy to judge human behavior

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