Ch 2: Physical and Mental Health and Health Care

Question 1

Health care reform legislation that President Obama signed into law in 2010, with the goal of expanding health insurance coverage to more Americans; also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

Answer 1

Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Question 2

A public health insurance program, jointly funded by the federal and state governments, that provides health insurance coverage for children whose families meet income eligibility standards.

Answer 2

Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Question 3

Identifying and contacting those exposed to people with positive tests.

Answer 3

Contact tracing

Question 4

Refers to the high number of mentally ill people being held in America’s correctional facilities.

Answer 4

Criminalization of mental illness

Question 5

The number of people per 100,000 in a population who die in a given period of time.

Answer 5

Death rates

Question 6

The removal of individuals with psychiatric disorders from mental hospitals and large residential institutions to outpatient community mental health centers.

Answer 6

Deinstitutionalization

Question 7

Areas where residents lack access to grocery stores that sell fresh fruits and vegetables and instead rely on convenience stores and fast-food chains that sell mostly high-calorie processed food.

Answer 7

Food deserts

Question 8

The high prevalence of obesity around the world.

Answer 8

Globesity

Question 9

According to the World Health Organization, “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.”

Answer 9

Health

Question 10

Preventable differences in exposure to disease or injury or in opportunities to achieve optimal health across social groups.

Answer 10

Health disparities

Question 11

The point at which enough people in a population have been exposed to or immunized from an infectious agent to stop its spread.

Answer 11

Herd immunity

Question 12

A federal agency that provides health services to the approximately 2.6 million members of 574 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and their descendants (Indian Health Service 2020).

Answer 12

Indian Health Service

Question 13

The number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births.

Answer 13

Infant Mortality Rate

Question 14

The average number of years that individuals born in a given year can expect to live.

Answer 14

Life Expectancy

Question 15

Any medical insurance plan that controls costs through monitoring and controlling the decisions of health care providers.

Answer 15

Managed care

Question 16

Deaths that result from complications associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and unsafe abortion

Answer 16

Maternal Mortality

Question 17

Public health insurance program, jointly funded by the federal and state governments, that provides health insurance coverage for the poor who meet eligibility requirements.

Answer 17

Medicaid