Medically Underserved Populations Flashcards
What are 3 core functions for public health?
Assessment, assurance , policy development
What level of prevention are both public health and clinical health involved in?
Secondary prevention
What is the term one health?
The health idea of populations, animals, and environment all together
What 2 concepts are the foundation for access to care?
Sustainability and continuity
What is sustainability ?
Ongoing care
What is continuity?
Care throughout the life span
What is the most disabling condition that lowers the quality of life no matter where you live?
Unipolar depression
What is DALY?
Disability adjusted life year—the years of life lost due to disability
What are the 3 important things apart of infrastructure?
Think without infrastructure in place, access to care will be nearly impossible
Roads, sanitation, and clean drinking water
What are two major concerns when caring for elderly populations in regards to social determinants of health?
Prescription medication costs and transportation
What are three components to access to care/health services?
- ) insurance coverage
- ) health services
- ) timeliness of care
What are some barriers to health services?
List 4
High cost of care, inadequate or no insurance coverage, lack of availability of services, lack of culturally competent care
What are the five social determinants of health?
Think SHEEN
Economic stability, education, social and community context, health and health care, neighborhood and physical environment
Employment, food insecurity, housing instability, poverty are all associated with which type of social determinant?
Economic
Civic participation, discrimination, incarceration, social contacts are all associated with which type of determinant
Social and community context