quiz health care and del

Health Care System

Provide access to essential medical services

Promote public health

Ensure the well-being of population

What is Health?

Health is a state of complete Physical, Mental, and Social Well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Primary prevention

aims to prevent the development of disease among healthy

people

Secondary prevention

focuses on early disease detection, which prevents progression of

the disease for apparently healthy individuals with asymptomatic conditions

Tertiary prevention

aims to reduce the impact of an already established disease by

minimizing disease-related complications

Quaternary prevention

A conceptual framework rather than a direct type of services provided to the consumers

What is Health Literacy

the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

Economic Stability

Income, employment, housing costs, food security, and ability to afford health care

Education Access and Quality

Access to education, literacy, graduation rates, and ability to understand health information

Health Care Access and Quality

Having health insurance, access to doctors/hospitals, quality of care, and ability to get medications

Neighborhood and Built Environment

Housing quality, transportation, safety, pollution, and access to healthy food or recreational spaces

Social and Community Context

Family support, relationships, social networks, discrimination, and involvement in the community

Flexner Report

led to standardized admissions testing (i.e.,

Medical College Admission Test,

Florence Nightingale

established the Nightingale Principles for nursing education for British nurses

Social Security Act (SSA)

was enacted, supporting those of

retirement age.

Medicare

Mostly people 65+ and some younger people with certain disabilities

Medicaid

Low-income people who meet eligibility requirements

Health Care’s Iron Triangle

The quality of the service, the cost of the

service, and the accessibility of the

service must be balanced for good health

care to be provided.

A principle of the U.S. healthcare system

is duty to treat, which means that any person deserves basic health care.

Stakeholders

are people and groups who have an interest in or are affected by healthcare decisions and policies

Health Statistics

numbers that tell us how healthy people are.

NCHS = National Center for Health Statistics

Part of the CDC

→ Produces an annual report about the nation's health.

NVSS=National Vital Statistics System

Provides important statistics like births, deaths, infant mortality, and life expectancy.

international Healthcare Statistics

monitors trends of economic development.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP

Overall economic output of a country

• GDP per capita – the GDP divided by the population of the

country.

Federal government efforts

Marine Hospital Services, Port Health Stations, The National Board of Health, US Public

Health Services, Social Security Act, Medicaid/Medicare, Affordable Care Act, etc

Healthcare governance – National levels

Centralized, Decentralized, and Hybrid

Healthcare governance –state lvl

Each state has primary authority over healthcare governance and is responsible for

overseeing and regulating various aspects of healthcare in their state

The National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System

Federal efforts to monitor the incidence and spread of diseases or conditions that

pose a serious health threat to Americans:

Department of Health and Human Services

To enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human

services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public

health, and social services.