First Section Final

Question 1

Explain Medicare and Medicaid and Badger care

Answer 1

Medicare – Americans over 65
Medicaid – based on low income status and physical problems
Badgercare – Wisconsin health insurance to children (regardless of income), pregnant women, parents and caretaker relatives, farm families, and other families who are self-employed, children/parents in foster care system

Question 2

Social psychological factors of Seeking Health CARe

Answer 2

Personal – how someone views own body, stress level, stress makes someone more likely too seek health services, more likely when ambiguous symptoms and higher levels of stress
Personality – neuroticism is a high predictor of seeking health care, more likely to complain about illness

Question 3

SES and seeking healthcare

Answer 3

Individuals who are higher SES tend to report lower level of symptoms and higher perceived health
When they are sick, more likely to seek health care than those in lower SES
Low SES – represent greatest percentage of those who are hospitalized, and are far more at risk for developing chronic illness

Question 4

Seeking Healthcare and communication

Answer 4

Faulty communication – providers Not listening
Using jargon
Baby talk
Non-person centered treatment (treating disease)
Stereotypes of patients

Question 5

Health practitioners as agents of change

Answer 5

Asking/being open to questions improves communication and patient satisfaction
Health practitioner
Highly credible source of knowledge
Simple and tailored health messages
Highlighting advantages/disadvantages adherence and nonadherence
Private, face-to-face interactions
Communicate with warmth and caring
Enlist cooperation of other family members

Question 6

Adherence definition

Answer 6

a person’s ability and willingness to follow recommended health practices

Question 7

Average rate of nonadherence

Answer 7

24.8%

Question 8

Diseases with High adherence rates

Answer 8

HIV, arthritis, GI disorder, cancer

Question 9

Disease with Low adherence rates

Answer 9

diabetes, pulmonary disease

Question 10

Ways of measuring adherence

Answer 10

Ask the practitioner
Ask the patient – interviews, self-report measures
Ask other people
Monitor medication usage
Examine biomedical evidence
Use a combination of procedures
Using 2 or more techniques yields greater accuracy

Question 11

Age and gender differences

Answer 11

Men seek health care and report having a regular doctor less than woman
Pie chart on D2L