Health Care and Impacts Flashcards
What impacts health inside and outside of your control?
Physical Determinants (Nutrition, Lifestyle, Environment, etc) and Social Determinants (Education access, Economic Stability, Health care Access and Quality, etc).
What is GDP?
The net income that the country makes in total. The more products that are bought the higher the GDP goes because economy fuels it.
What percent of GDP is spent on healthcare and why not less or more?
10-12%; if it was more there would not be enough money to build infrastructure, and if less, there would not be proper care (less access) and longer wait times.
Where does the money for health care come from?
It comes from paying taxes to the federal government. (Public insurance)
How does income impact life expectancy?
People with higher income have higher life expectancies probably because they spend more on health.
What is private insurance and list examples
It’s something you don’t have to directly pay for. i.e. Dental, Medication, Eyewear, etc.
What is universal health care
High quality care without directly paying money via taxes.
Types of Healthcare systems
Combined and Gov (Canada), Controlling Gov. (Britain), Insurance companies (Pay roll deduction), Out of pocket (Developing countries)
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (U.S.)
Allows Americans to have affordable health care specifically for priv. insurance like medications. Also offers consumer discounts for gov. sponsored health insurance plans.
How is the health care system regulated
The federal government is in charge of health care but send your money all around provinces so that physicians and hospitals have money so that delivery of health services is managed by provinces.
Where is the most money spent?
1) Hospitals
2) Drugs
3) Physicians
When does healthcare coverage go away for students?
Age 25 is when coverage is no longer under parent’s private health care provider.
How can money be saved when it comes to health?
1) Cutting costs and covering a certain # of patients per year. 2) Having more private insurance would mean the wealthy can pay for their own health, but wait times go up for public.
Fact about OHIP
If you are out of the country for over 153 days, you can’t use health card to cover you.
What’s Medicare?
Publicly funded health care system
