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4 factors that affect access - (ANSWER)ability to pay, availability of services, payment, enablement
barriers
subsystems of US healthcare system - (ANSWER)managed care, military, vulnerable populations,
integrated delivery, long term care, public health
managed care - (ANSWER)seeks to achieve efficiency by integrating the basic functions of health care
delivery; employs mechanisms to control (manage) utilization of medical services
military care - (ANSWER)Tri Care (free for active duty personnel of US Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast
Gaurd) and VA Healthcare (available for retired vets)
vulnerable populations - (ANSWER)the poor, uninsured, minorities and immigrants living in
disadvantaged communities and receive care from "safety net" providers
safety nets - (ANSWER)are not secure; includes public health insurance programs, free clinics and
hospital emergency services, medicaid
integrated systems - (ANSWER)network of healthcare providers and organizations that provides or
arranges to provide a coordinated continuum of services to a defined population and is willing to be
held clinically and fiscally accountable for the clinical outcomes and health status of served populations;
emphasis on primary care and encourages physician- hospital integration
long term care - (ANSWER)consists of medical and non medical care that are provided to individuals who
are chronically ill or who have a disability
public health system - (ANSWER)mission is to improve and protect community health
characteristics of the US healthcare system - (ANSWER)no central governing agency and little integration
and coordination, technology driven with focus on acute care, high in costs, unequal in access, average
in outcome, imperfect market conditions, gov't as subsidiary to the private sector, fusion of market
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justice and social justice, multiple payers and balance of power, quest for integration and accountability,
access to healthcare services based on insurance, legal risks influence practice behavior
major players in healthcare - (ANSWER)physicians, administrators, insurance companies, employers, and
government
defensive medicine - (ANSWER)form of protection against lawsuits; most providers engage in to take
extra precautions such as prescribing additional diagnostic tests, scheduling checkups, and maintaining
abundant documentation; many are inefficient and drive up costs
health (medical model) - (ANSWER)the absence of illness or disease; emphasizes clinical diagnosis and
medical intervention to treat disease or its symptoms
health (WHO definition) - (ANSWER)complete state of physical, mental, and social well being, and not
merely the absence of disease (biopsychosocial)
health care system - (ANSWER)all activities aimed at promoting, restoring, or maintaining health
holistic medicine - (ANSWER)seeks to treat the individual as a whole person; mental, physical, social and
spiritual
illness - (ANSWER)person's perception and evaluation of how he/she is feeling
disease - (ANSWER)based on a professional evaluation; requires therapeutic intervention
acute - (ANSWER)relatively severe, episodic, and often treatable; treatment provided in a hospital (ex:
heart attack)
subacute - (ANSWER)in between acute and chronic; post acute treatment after hospital discharge (head
trauma, ventilator)