Midterm 1 (CH 1, 2, 14, 9, 11, 10, 7) Flashcards
What is health?
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being; not merely the absence of disease
What is population health?
The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of outcomes within the group
How can health status be measured?
how well someone feels and functions physically, mentally, and socially
What are the determinants of health?
Genetics, healthcare, individual behavior, physical environment, and social environment
Do the determinants of health have an equal influence?
No,
But they all interact and are not independent of each other
What is a continuum of care?
a range of services needed to care for a person or population; comprehensive womb-to-tomb CoC
Related businesses and competitors that offer products and services similar to what your organization offers
Industry sector
Suppliers, manufacturers, and service providers, from which your org obtains needed supplies, equipment, and services
Raw materials sector
Employers, labor unions, schools, colleges, employment agencies, and labor markets, from which you obtain human resources (employees)
Human resources sector
Banks, lenders, stock markets, and investors, from which your org obtains loans, credit, and other financial resources
Financial resources sector
Actual and potential clients and users of your org’s products and services
Market sector
Science and technological methods of producing services and products
Technology sector
Levels and rates of employment, inflation, growth, investment, and other economic circumstances
Economic conditions sector
Laws, regulations, rulings, political systems, and governments at local, state, and national levels
Government sector
Natural resources, the green movement, and forces for sustainability
Natural sector
Characteristics of the society and culture (education, values, attitudes)
Sociocultural sector
Globalization, other countries and their customs, industries, businesses, and people
International sector
What are stakeholders?
For a designated organization, people and other organizations who have a stake (interest) in what the organization does
What is management?
the process of getting things done through and with people
Work smarter, not harder
-designs jobs for efficiency and production
-now called ergonomics and human engineering
Taylor and Scientific Management
An integrated set of ideas to design organizations
-way for top level managers to provide structure for their organization
-Top down
Fayol and Administrative Theory
Management based on psychology and sociology
Mayo and Human Relations
Five Management Functions:
plan, organize, staff, direct (lead), and control
Gulick, Urwick, and Management Functions
Formal, impersonal management system
-Makes organizations more predictable, efficient, and stable/less flexible, personal, innovative
Weber and Bureaucratic Theory
Open system: must understand, be open to, and interact with external environment to sustain itself
Open Systems Theory
Strive to improve efficiency and performance, views organizations as mechanistic
Open rational systems
Strive to improve worker satisfaction, view organizations as more organic
Open natural systems
Applies behavioral science to help organizations build capability to change
-tries to change whole system
Organization Development Theory
No single best way to design organizations; “best way” is contingent on factors that can vary
Contingency Theory
Three basic kinds of skills:
-Technical skills to work with things
-Humans skills to work with people
-Conceptual skills to work with ideas
Management Skills