Chapter 14 Flashcards
Consumer
A person who uses up a commodity
A purchaser of goods
A customer
Consumerism
Policy encouraging frequent increase in consumption of goods as a basis for sound economy
Potter (1988)
1) Access
2) Choice
3) Information
4) Redress
5) Representation
Consumer Driven Healthcare Plans
Designed to allow employees greater choice in healthcare thus enabling them to be wise consumers
HSA
MSA
FSA
HRA
Health Savings Account
Medical Savings Account
Flexible Spending Arrangement
Health Reimbursement Arrangement
Wall Street Crash/Booker T. Washington dies in the year
1915
Penicillin is accepted as a treatment for syphilis in the year:
1945
1999
Tuskegee University National Center hosts 1st Annual Commemoration of the Presidential Apology
“High Deductible Health Plans” is also known as:
Catastrophic health insurance
Consumer Driven Health Plans provide:
Greater choices in services
The Belmont’s Three Principles to Ethical Conduct of Research with Humans:
- Respect to people
- Beneficence
- Justice
The last widow receiving THBP benefits died on:
January 27, 2009
The Tuskegee Study Went On For:
40 years till 1972
What provided motivation for alternative forms of healthcare?
- Change in demographics/socioeconomics
- Shortage of healthcare professionals
- Shift towards chronic care
- Increased customer expectations
Principles of healthcare consumerism
- Admission
- Ideal
- Information
- Compensation
- Representation