Exam 1: Health Promotion & Culture and Family Flashcards
Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced among different cultural/ethic groups
Health Disparities
Disparities are thought to result from a complex interaction among _____, _____, _____, and _____.
-biological factors
-environmental factors
-socioeconomic factors
-health behaviors
Efforts to reduce disparities include: (6)
-HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives
-Institution for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
-The National Institutes of Health
-National Institute of Nursing Research
-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
-U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The federal government’s prevention agenda for building a healthier nation
Healthier People 2020
For overarching goals of Healthy People 202
- Attaining high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death
- Achieving health equality, eliminating disparities, and improving the health of all groups
- creating social and physical environments that promote good health for all
- Promoting quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
Healthy People 2020 objectives in maternal, infant, and child health (4)
-reduce the rate of fetal and infant deaths
-reduce the rate of maternal mortality
-reduce preterm births
-reduce cesarean births among low-risk women
Health care reform signed into law by President Obama in efforts to make healthcare more accessible
Affordable Care Act
Goals for Affordable Care Act aimed to make insurance: (3)
-affordable
-contain costs, strengthen, and improve Medicare/Medicaid
-reform the insurance market
Affordable Care Act contained provisions to promote (5)
-Prevention and improve public health
-Quality of care
-Reduce waste
-Fraud and abuse
-Reform all health delivery systems
What OBGYN factors where made more affordable from Affordable Care Act (6)
-Contraception
-OBGYN services
-Counseling
-Mammograms
-Well-Woman visits
-Gestational DM screenings
Birth statistic:
# of births in 1 year per 1000
15-30: decline
40+: increase
Fertility statistics:
# of births per 1000 ages 15-44 in 1 year
60.3
Infant mortality statisitc: # of infant deaths younger than 1 year per 1000 live births
5.9 (stable)
Maternal Mortality Statistic: # of maternal deaths from births, pregnancy complications, and puerperium per 100,000 live births
23.8 (decline)
42 days post pregnancy
puerperium
Maternal Morbidity Statistic: measure of maternal health related/caused by pregnancy
Obesity is becoming more common