Mod 10 and 11 Quiz Flashcards
Importance of Global Health
- Improvement in public health abroad protects America’s health as well as improve health of populations worldwide
Global Burden of Disease Project
- Collaborative global effort with comparative data set on more than 350 disease and injuries in 204 countries
Population growth and aging
- Greater life expectancy, more people dying from non-communicable diseases
Epidemiological Transition
- shift from a time when majority of deaths worldwide were due to communicable diseases to a time when majority of deaths are due to noncommunicable diseases
Disability Transition
- change in proportion of total DALYs, more disability from mental health and musculoskeletal disorders
Double Burden of Disease
Must continue to control and prevent spread of infectious diseases while simultaneously addressing increase in chronic diseases
Social Progress Index
Measures all the things the global goals are trying to achieve and sums up into single number to tract progress over time
What 3 questions does social progress index ask?
- Does everyone have basic needs of survival (food, water)
- Does everyone have the building blocks of a better life (education)
- Does everyone have the opportunity to improve their lives (freedom of choice)
Inpatient facility
- Healthcare facility in the US where individual may remain for more than 24 hrs
- Hospitals, long-term care
Outpatient Facility
- healthcare facility in the US in which patients can remain for fewer than 24 hours
- clinical facilities, emergency room, specialty clinics
Structure
- Physical and organization infrastructure in which care is delivered to provide high-quality care
- ex. ratio of providers to patients
Process
- procedures and formal processes that go into delivering care recommendations for clinical practice
- Ex. health care quality measures
Outcome measures
- result of care
- Ex. surgical mortality rates
Interoperability
- ability to share and use info. across institutions and across computer systems
Medical Malpractice
State of civil law designed to hold practitioners accountable to pts for the quality of health care
System Errors
problems resulting from deficiencies in the system for delivering healthcare or other services
Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
- digital versions of paper charts in clinician offices, clinics, hospitals
- From a single medical practice
Electronic Health Records (EHR)
- Comprehensive record used across health care
- all clinicians involved in pt care
Health information exchange organizations (HIOS)
- Provide capability to electronically move clinical info. between different health care info. systems while maintaining meaning of info. being exchanged
How is technology being used to improve quality of care?
- telemedicine, home testing, remote monitoring
Public health relies on data reported by ____
health care partners
Drivers of health of information systems
- Data analytics
- Collaborative care
- Cost control
- Population health management
