IHS - CHAPTER 1 Study Set with Questions and Correct Answers

QUALITY Measurement of the quality of health care provided to individuals or groups of patients, against a previously defined standard ACCESS An individual's ability to to obtain medical services on a timely and financially accessible basis. Factors determining ease of access also include availability of health care facilities and transportation to them and reasonable hours of operation HEALTH CARE DELIVERY The provision of preventive, treatment, or rehabilitative health services, from short-term to long-term, to individuals as well as groups of people, by individual practitioners, institutions, or public health agencies. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM A system as a situation, environment and an enterprise that separates what is "health" from what is "non-health." It is the organization of people, institutions, and resources to deliver health care services to meet the health needs of a target population. situation, environment and enterprise The Health Care System can be defined as? HEALTH CARE ENTERPRISE The line between activities directed at keeping people healthy and those directed at restrain health once a disease or injury occurs PUBLIC HEALTH Keeping people healthy through activities associated with behavioral health, and actions associated with our social system. This includes activities to protect the environment, making sure water supplies, restaurants and food supplies are safe, and providing preventive health services such as vaccinations BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Helps people make better choices to improve or protect their own health. This includes not smoking, eating well, exercising, and reducing stress HEALTH CARE The maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services (1) Importance of institutions (2) role of professionals (3) medical technology (4) tensions between the "free market" and "government control" (5)dysfunctional financing and payment system FEATURES OF THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OF 2010 The health reform act, which will extend health insurance coverage to more than 32 million Americans and prevents insurance companies from denying coverage due to pre-existing medical conditions. As a Federal law, it will require nearly all Americans to have some sort of health insurance (or pay a penalty through the tax code). Private insurance companies will need to comply with a host of nee federal rules & regulations, and large employers who do not provide adequate insurance coverage for their employees will be penalized