Public Health, Medicine & Food

Question 1

what is public health?

Answer 1

population based medicine in order to..
- curb outbreak of disease
- monitor disease
- establish policies for dealing w/ and preventing disease

Question 2

what is medicine?

Answer 2

individual health
(ex: when doctor’s see patients)

Question 3

what is the core value of public health?

Answer 3

improving the health status of others to provide benefits to all

Question 4

social safety net?

Answer 4

any government program that benefits individuals or families.

Question 5

what is food security?

Answer 5

when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to maintain a healthy lifestyle

Question 6

what is food assistance?

Answer 6

any intervention to address hunger and under nutrition (ex: free breakfast and lunch programs in bolivia)

Question 7

what is food aid?

Answer 7

international flows in the form of food or cash to purchase food in support of food assistance programs (ex: organizations that donate food to the lunch programs)

Question 8

what is feed my starving children?

Answer 8

a Christian non-profit organization that coordinates the packaging and distribution of food to people in developing nations.

Question 9

what is the affordable care act?

Answer 9

• signed by president obama in 2010
• increased health insurance coverage for the uninsured and implements reforms to the health insurance market

Question 10

2010? (ACA)

Answer 10

• access to electronic health
• cannot be denied w/ pre-existing conditions
• no lifetime/annual limits
• free preventative care
• adults w/ pre-existing conditions offered other kinds of plans

Question 11

2014? (ACA)

Answer 11

can’t discriminate who gets what plan and how much people plan due to gender or pre-existing conditions

Question 12

what are health exchanges?

Answer 12

organizations in each state through which people can purchase health insurance.

Question 13

what are insurance premiums?

Answer 13

cost to consumer per month to buy the plan

Question 14

what is a deductible?

Answer 14

amount of out of pocket costs per year that the consumer must pay before access to health benefits

Question 15

what is co-insurance? (co-pay)

Answer 15

cost sharing between consumer and insurance, part of service cost the consumer must pay after meeting deductible
(ex: having to pay specialist $30 for being seen)

Question 16

challenges of ACA?

Answer 16

not enough practitioners = question of structure in medical establishment

Question 17

health care as a human right?

Answer 17

UN’s universal declaration of human rights (1948) right to health = all countries signed besides US, Comoros, and Palau

Question 18

what does it mean to be underinsured?

Answer 18

a person has insurance coverage, but the limits may not be high enough to cover the full expenses of a claim.

Question 19

what does it mean to be uninsured?

Answer 19

not covered by insurance