Health and Wellness Chapter 15 - Making Decisions About Health Care

Describe the 3 principles of being a wise healthcare consumer.

Working in partnership with your healthcare provider

Sharing healthcare decisions

Skilled at obtaining healthcare

How can a patient be an active partner in their own healthcare?

Be open and honest in personal activites

What are the 7 ways your book talks about in order to cut the cost of healthcare?

Exercise self-care

Seek health from a primary provider

Reduce unneccesary medical tests

Reduce drug use

Specialists when necessary

Emergency services only for actual emergencies

Use hospitals only recconmended by a physician

Name 3 tasks that a Physician Assistant does according to your book?

Perform complex diagnostic procedures, spend time with the patient and can work independently under the supervision of a physician

Where are some places that an EMT can work and with whom?

Police and fire departments

Describe what a Physical Therapist does.

Restore function, improve mobility and relieve patients of pain

Describe what an Occupational Therapist does.

Help people in the workplace

Who are the worried well?

Needed to have reassurance that they are not sick

What are the top 3 reasons why people go to doctor visits?

Progress visit

General

Post-operative

What is the patient care partnership?

Describes the situations that are most encountered by hospital patients

Describe single-payer health insurance.

Each person obtaining private health insurance from a private insurance company

Describe universal health insurance.

Equal access to all healthcare services.

Describe public health insurance.

VA, Medicare, Medicaid

where do most people get their health insurance from?

Employer

Describe Fee-for-Service Plans.

Complete freedom in choosing a health insurance provider and will pay about 80% of the total fees.

Describe HMOs.

Agreed upon set of services and works well with financial resources

Describe PPO’s.

Combination of the fee-for service plans and an HMO

Describe POS

You can be referred to someone who is not in network and still get coverage.

Who exactly is covered under Medicare?

The elderly over age 65 and the ones that are in renal failure

What is the Medicaid Expansion?

Allows people to get coverage that are below 138% the federal poverty line.

Who is covered under Medicaid?

People who have no medical insurance of any kind.

what are the top 3 sources of financial waste in US health care?

Unnecessary health insurance

Excessive admin

Poor healthcare delivery

Define Medical Tourism

Seeking treatment in other countries for medical care because it is less expensive

What is Health Care Disparity?

Higher burden of illness, injury, disability or mortality by one population group

How much in healthcare costs per capita in the US?

It is about 10,000 per person in the United States

Give 3 examples of Medicalization.

Homosexuality

Obesity

Psychotherapy

Define precision medicine.

Based on the premise that the individuals care is based on their specific on genetic makeup

What is the top 3 cosmetic surgeries in the US?

Nose Job

Eyelid Surgery

Breast Augmentation

What is meant by elective surgery?

Voluntarily taking it or having it scheduled

What is the most frequently donated organ?

Renal - Kidneys

What is integrative medicine? (give 2 examples)

Combining western and medical methods

Spiritual or Nutritional therapies

What is alternative medicine? (give 2 examples)

Non-Western medicine

Acupuncture and Ayurveda

Define Homeopathy.

Self healing syndrome with a medicine derived from animals or plants

What is Ayurveda?

Practiced in India for more than 4,000 years (Tea)

What is the practice of Chiropractic services based on?

It is from the Greek and means hands and practice

What is the underlying principle of acupuncture?

Existence of chi which is circulated throughout the body

What is a meridian and how many do you have in traditional Chinese medicine? How many needles are usually used?

They connect all of the major organs and intersect with the surface of the body.

Define Naturopathy?

Prevention of disease and the individual’s responsibilty for a healthy lifestyle.

What is the main purpose of therapeutic massage?

Improved blood circulation

Who should not engage in therapeutic massage?

Recent bone fractures or sprains

What is quackery?

Sale of useless potions or devices that heals the buyer of whatever ails them.