2/19-3/2: Ch 5 & 6 Flashcards
Define vulnerable populations
groups that experience a convergence of health risks, and exhibit poor health status, are a vulnerable pop
Determinants of health push/force you
Push you
Health Risk characteristic: What are 3 predisposing risks that make people vulnerable?
- demographics- age, sex
- social structure- community, resources,
- your belief of what health is- if you don’t think smoking is unhealthy
Health risk characterisitic: Enabling characteristic- what is it?
Those things around you- resources available to you. Do your surroundings have healthy attributes (or do you live in food desert? for ex)
Health risk characteristic: Need factors
specific illness or needs that drive person to search for healthcare
Vulnerability is influenced by…?
social forces, perhaps they can be mitigated by social forces too? not completely but perhaps improved.
T/F: vulnerability is linked with national resources?
true
T/F vulnerability and TOTAL equity cannot coexist
true
what percent of US pop is made up of racial and ethnic minorities?
34%
What is RSC
Regular source of care: people who can regularly access HC, who know how to get to HC
What decreases RSC?
absence of insurance coverage, resources to pay for it, education/income
Regular source of care is impacted by what?
income, language, insurance coverage
Maternal death definition timeline?
death during preg or up to 12 mo after delivery
where does the money go?
Hospitals about 1/3 > MDs 20% (1 in 5$) > Rx 10% > nursing home 9% > dental 5%
1 driver of HC costs
Price
