Health Care System

Question 1

10 essential public health services

Answer 1

Monitor, Diagnose and investigate, Inform and educate, Mobilize community partnerships, Develop policies and plans, Enforce, Link, Assure, Evaluate, Conduct Research

Question 2

Monitor

Answer 2

Population health status to identify and solve community health problems

Question 3

Diagnose and investigate

Answer 3

Health problems and health hazards in the community

Question 4

Inform and educate

Answer 4

people about health issues

Question 5

Mobilize community partnerships

Answer 5

An action to identify and solve health problems

Question 6

Develop policies and plans

Answer 6

That support individual and community health efforts

Question 7

Enforce

Answer 7

Laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety

Question 8

Link

Answer 8

People to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable

Question 9

Assure

Answer 9

Competent public an personal health care workforce

Question 10

Evaluate

Answer 10

Effectiveness accesibility and quality of personal and population based health services

Question 11

Conduct research

Answer 11

for new insights and innovative solution to health problems

Question 12

What is the WHO system framework

Answer 12

Service delivery, health workforce, information, medical products, vaccines, and technologies, financing, leadership/governance

Question 13

Goals of WHO

Answer 13

Improved health, responsiveness, social and financial risk protection, improved efficiency

Question 14

Basic components of US Health Care system

Answer 14

Patients, Services, Providers, Administrators/Other Staff, Facilities, Assurance, Governance

Question 15

Patients

Answer 15

People receiving individual services

Question 16

Patients

Answer 16

Individuals who live in context: Family, relationships, socioeconomic, occupations, community, physical environment

Question 17

Types of services

Answer 17

Primary care, specialty care, diagnostic service, mental health, pharmaceutical care..etc

Question 18

Work Force

Answer 18

Physicians, surgeons, physicians assistance, nurses, nurse practitioners, RNs, Dentists, etc

Question 19

Who earns more- specialty physicians and primary care physicians

Answer 19

Specialty

Question 20

What is the average age of the of a nurse?

Answer 20

44.4

Question 21

In the coming decade, how many nurses will retire?

Answer 21

80,000

Question 22

What will the rise in nurses be between 2013 and 2030?

Answer 22

2.7 million to 3.3 million

Question 23

In 2025, what will be the shortage of nurses?

Answer 23

128,000 (4%)

Question 24

Administrators/Other Staff

Answer 24

Health care executive leaders, administrators, board members, trustees, lab staff, diagnostic services

Question 25

Facilities:

Answer 25

Ambulatory care, emergency departments, hospitals, long term care/nursing homes, community health centers, school based clinics, family planning clinics

Question 26

Assurance/Oversight

Answer 26

Accreditation of training programs, Licensure/professional standards, Laboratory safety/quality standards

Question 27

Governance

Answer 27

Executive and administrative leadership, Boards of directors/trustees

Question 28

What aspects of government control the health care system?

Answer 28

local, state, and federal policy

Question 29

When does public policy intervene?

Answer 29

When there is a market failure or market ineffciencies that result in negative outcomes

Question 30

What does public policy address?

Answer 30

Access to health care, financing of health care, quality of health care

Question 31

What are the 5 dimensions of access?

Answer 31

Affordability, Accessibility, Availability, Accommodation, Acceptability

Question 32

Affordability:

Answer 32

Price of services meet client's income and ability to pay. (Transportation, lost time, and income must be taken into account)

Question 33

Accessibility

Answer 33

Location of supply aligns with location of client. Accounts for geographical,economic, and social clients

Question 34

Availability

Answer 34

Size or volume of the supply meets clients needs. Volume and type services vs Resources to clients volume and type of needs

Question 35

Accommodation:

Answer 35

Delivery of healthcare accommodates clients needs. Appointment systems, hours of operations, walk in facilities

Question 36

Healthcare providers accept all clients regardless of characteristics

Answer 36

Clients characteristics, age, sex, social class, etc

Question 37

Among the ethnicities who usually has the LEAST regular care?

Answer 37

Hispanic

Question 38

How has cost influenced the number of people seeking medical treatment?

Answer 38

It has decreased it

Question 39

What are components of the health care safety net?

Answer 39

Medicaid, local public health clinics, family planning services, community health centers, schools, etc

Question 40

Major types of health care financing for personal services

Answer 40

Private insurance, public insurance: medicaid, medicare, schip,

Question 41

Medicare Eligibility

Answer 41

1) People 65 and Older 2) People who have kidney failure or long term kidney diseases 3) People who are currently disabled and can't work 4) Low income people who are disabled and cannot work 5) Low income 65+

Question 42

Medicaid Eligibility

Answer 42

- Low income - Pregnant women - Children under 19 - People who are 65+ - People who are blind or disabled - People who need nursing care

Question 43

Social Security Act

Answer 43

1965 Amendment to the 1935

Question 44

Social Insurance

Answer 44

For the elderly and disabled. Nationwide eligibility and benefits

Question 45

A defined Benefit plan

Answer 45

With no limit to annual spending:: Covers 55 million people, 65 and older, under 65 is disabled by ALS and End stage renal disease

Question 46

What does the US rank poorest on?

Answer 46

1) Life expectancy 2) Infant and child mortality rates 3) Disability free life expectancy, premature mortality, incidence and prevalence rates, disease specific mortality rates, suicides

Question 47

Are healthcare disparities the same thing as health status disparities?

Answer 47

No

Question 48

What is the difference between health status disparities and health care disparities

Answer 48

Driven by differential access to all of the social determinant of health