Exam 1 - Chapter 11

Question 1

Primary Health Care

Answer 1

Treatment of common health problems

Question 2

Secondary Health CAre

Answer 2

Treatment of problems requiring more specialized clinical expertise

Question 3

Tertiary Health Care

Answer 3

Management of rare and complex disorders

Question 4

Community Health Centers

Answer 4

They are regionalized services for vulnerable geographic populations with an emphasis care and education

Question 5

Primary objective of community health centers?

Answer 5

Ensure that everyone who needs care has access regardless of the ability to pay

Question 6

What are Health Maintenance Organizations

Answer 6

They are prepaid, group-managed care plans that allow subscribers to recieve all the medical services that they require through a group of affiliated providers

Question 7

What are Preferred Provider Organization (PPOs)

Answer 7

They allow a third party payer to contract with a group of health care providers to provide servicees at a lower fee in reeturn for prompt payment and a guaranteed volume of patients and services

Question 8

What is care coordination?

Answer 8

deliberate organization of patient care activites between two or more participants involved in a patients care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services

Question 9

Four ways to pay for health care?

Answer 9

Out-Of-Pocket Payment
Individual Private Insurance
Employer-Based Group Private Insurance
Government Financing

Question 10

What is Part A of medicare?

Answer 10

This pays for most impatient hospital costs and is paid for by the federal government

Question 11

What is Part B of medicare?

Answer 11

Voluntary, and is paid by a monthly premium, and it covers most outpatient costs for physician visits, medications, and home health services

Question 12

What is Medicaid?

Answer 12

It is a federally funded public assistance program for people of any age who have low incomes; for the blind, older adults, and disabled.

Question 13

What is an inpatient?

Answer 13

A person who enters the hospital and stays overnight for an indeterminate time.

Question 14

What are ambulatory care centers?

Answer 14

Facilities that deliver outpatient medial care. An example would be a Kroger Clinic Walk In.

Question 15

What do extended-care services provide?

Answer 15

Provide medial and nonmedical care for people with chronic illnesses or disabilites

Question 16

What is Respite Care?

Answer 16

A type of care provided for caregivers of homebound ill, disabled, or older adults

Question 17

What is hospice care?

Answer 17

Program of palliative and supportive care services providing physical, psychological, social, and spirtual care for dying people, their families, and other loved ones.

Question 18

What is Palliative Care?

Answer 18

This is patient and family centered care that optimizes the quality of life by anticapting, preventing, and treating suffering. Used at a initial diagnosis

Question 19

What is a Public Health SErvice?

Answer 19

A federal health facility under the direction of the US department of Health and Human services. Supplies funds to health centers that provide care to migrant workers and to community facilities.