HCM II obj Flashcards
- Define health health care and its focus and components
restore health or prevent exacerbation of health problems by focusing of sec and tert prevention made of facilities workforce therapeutic providers educational and research institutions and finance
- Describe how health care system success is judged
quality equity and efficiency
- Define the types of care
primary for prevention secondary for normal Tx tertiary for specialized Tx
- Describe the types of U.S. health care facilities including types of hospitals
inpt and outpt facilities typified by govt fed govt nonfed pvt nonprofit and pvt profit
- Describe trends for U.S. hospitals
increase in short term acute care hospt but over decrease in number of all hospt and beds
- Describe hospital structure and divisions administration medical division and committees
str is admin/medical/nursing/diag support. Admin is made of finance/personnel/services/PR/development. Medical div is made of depts by specialty/systems/radiology/pathology. Committees are exec/joint conf/credentialing/inf control/pharm/tissue/med records/QA/ethics/risk management
- List types of private for-profit health services enterprises
pharm/health insurance/nursing homes/managed care/proprietary gen hosp
- Describe not-for-profit and for-profit hospital structures
board of trustees/CEO/Pres/VP/owners
- Describe attributes of nursing homes
long term/palliative/rehab/mostly for profit/expensive
- Define Managed Care Organization (MCO)
network of contracted physicians w/ goal to decrease expense and increase profit/efficiency
- Describe attributes of ambulatory care and hospital emergency departments (EDs)
primary method of physician contact in a outpt setting/EDs are for critically ill and unjured pts and those w/o insurance/money/locality
- Describe functions of public health departments
focuses on prevention of diseases
- Describe the people (including physicians) who provide health care (jobs where employed)
physician/RN/LPN/Tech/Pharm/PA
- Describe the work of primary care physicians
initial provider and gatekeeper of medicine
- List and define the types of nurses
RN w/ BS or AS deg/LPN w/ HS deg/Nurse Aid w/ no deg
- Describe what a physician assistant does
mostly same as doc but needs oversight
- Explain where the federal government derives its powers regarding health care
US constitution via taxation and commerce reg
- Describe the type of power states have that permits them to regulate health care
police power which are county health dept and programs for mental hp and aged
- Describe the roles of the three branches of the U.S. government in health care
legis enacts laws/exec regs legis/judis determines constitutionality
- Know what federal agency roles are in health care
DHHS/DOD/VA/DA/EPA/DL all protects hp of citizens
- Define therapeutics
medical devices and pharm
- Know what is included in U.S. national health expenditures and the trends
hp consumptions exp/investments in med str/hp research/trend is NHE is growing but rate of growth is decreasing
- Describe sources for funding of the U.S. national health expenditures
OOP/health insurance/DOD/VA/charity
- Define and describe out-of-pocket expenditures
direct/extra pay/copay/deductibles