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Social Burden of Disease
Factors that influence prevalence 1,
Cumulative incidence 2,
Incidence density 3
15  cards
Insurance Markets
Adverse selection 1,
Typical scenario of adverse selec...,
Minimizing ___ is key for health ...
23  cards
Study Design and Causality
Internal validity 1,
External validity 2,
Prospective studies 3
26  cards
Informed Consent
Principilism 1,
Prima facia goods 2,
Four components of principalism 3
33  cards
Social Determinants of Health
Who definition of the social dete...,
Framework for understanding sdh 2,
Key features of well performing m...
39  cards
Medicare and Medicaid
Social security act ammendments o...,
Overall mission of medicare 2,
Overall mission of medicaid 3
32  cards
Frequency and Association
Attributable risk 1,
Percentage of risk attributed to x 2,
Population attributable risk 3
13  cards
Medical History and History of Racism
Therapeutic system 1,
Most illness episodes in the us t...,
__ of patients sought care from a...
36  cards
Biostatistics
The sampling distribution of the ...,
The standard deviation of the sam...,
Standard deviation vs standard er...
15  cards
Deciding for Others
Among psychiatric patients ____ h...,
Criteria for assessment of decisi...,
Assessing the patient s ability t...
30  cards
Puzzles of Therapeutic Efficacy
If the whole materia medica as no...,
Kefauver harris amendments of 1962 2,
Thalidomide panic of 1962 3
15  cards
Paying Providers
Medicare bonus and penalty payment 1,
Hsiao fee schedule 2,
Private insurers find a reason to...
17  cards
Bias and Confounding
Overarching categories of bias 1,
Selection bias is especially comm...,
Social desirability bias 3
48  cards
Rationing and Futility
Categories of allocation principl...,
Scarce medical goods with the exc...,
Lottery 3
30  cards
Role of Medicine
Mckeown hypothesis 1,
Gender dysphoria 2,
Homosexuality was diagnosed in th...
5  cards
Provider Organization
Independent practice association 1,
Integrated health practice 2,
Physician hospital organization 3
14  cards
History of Clinical Research
When walter cannon proposed that ...,
Clinical equipoise 2,
Seven ethical requirements for cl...
3  cards
RCTs and Power
Why don t we always increase powe...,
Type i vs type ii error 2,
Ways to increase power 3
18  cards
International Healthcare Systems
Canada what is covered and what i...,
In canada healthcare spending dec...,
Canadian healthcare system name 3
49  cards
Reproductive Ethics
When working with a pregnant pati...,
It is not ethically defensible to...,
Any fetal intervention has 3
26  cards
Responsibility for Treatment Outcomes
Factors that contributed to the r...,
Time period of the cigarette s ri...,
Impact of the surgeon general s r...
27  cards
Benefit Design
Hidden costs in us healthcare 1,
Major finding of the rand health ...,
The major role of differential co...
21  cards
Sensitivity, Specificity, and Predictive Values
Sensitivity and specificity are i...,
Positive predictive value 2,
Negative predictive value 3
20  cards
Mechanisms of Disparities
Difference disparity discriminati...,
Patient level variables in racial...,
Healthcare system level variables...
4  cards
Global Health and Disparities
The infrastructure build during c...,
Corruption and poverty are ___ co...,
Clan based thinking 3
10  cards
Ethics of Disparities
Why do undocumented immigrants se...,
Things that have long been covere...,
Major coverage hole for undocumen...
9  cards
Ethics at the End of Life
Fire requirements of the doctrine...,
The doctrine of double effect dea...,
Most states ___ physician assiste...
13  cards
Beyond the Clinic
Virchow s findings on the typhus ...,
Rudolf virchow 2,
The beginnings of primary and spe...
37  cards
Quality Measures
Process level quality 1,
Outcome level quality 2,
Patient experience level quality 3
21  cards
Diagnostic and Screening Tests
The screening and diagnostic test...,
The two types of preclinical dise...,
Components of screening 3
4  cards
Assessing Health Policies
Bernie sanders version of medicar...,
Single payer healthcare 2,
Socialized medicine 3
8  cards
All Medicine is Social Medicine
Social determinants are estimated...,
Lack of stable housing is a major...,
Community partners programs 3
13  cards

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