sgydtr Flashcards
primary prevention
- preventing the occurrence of disease
- ex. vaccine, exercise, nutrition, routine exams
- education
secondary prevention
- early detection of disease
- if present -> treatment of the disease
- ex. screening exams
tertiary prevention
- interventional procedures to minimize a condition getting worse
- prevents complications and further injury
- rehabilitation and infection control practices
what makes a screening test good
- low cost -> make it accessible
- low burden to the person being screened
- reliable (no false positives or false negative)
health services professionals
- US health care industry is the largest and most powerful empolyer
- 9.1% health care employment as a percent of total employment
- healthcare spending will account for 19.7% of GDP by 2026
- health care will continue to grow bc:
- growth in population
- aging of the population
issues in medical practice, training, and supply medical practice
- medical training
- geographic maldistribution
- specialty maldistribution
- international medical graduates (IMG)
medical training
- training more specialists than primary care providers
- health care delivery system is evolving towards primary care
- maldistribution
- primary care workforce is shrinking
maldistribution
- either a surplus or a shortage of the type of physicians needd to maintain the health status of a given population at an optimum level
- geographic maldistribution- better money in metropolitan areas -> more people/patients
- specialty maldistribution
geographic maldistribution
specialty maldistribution
healthcare retirement wave has hit
-demand for healthcare workers is heightened by the retirement of baby boomer healthcare practitioners
the major distinction between skilled nursing and residential care facilities is that skilled nursing facilities
- provide care primarily for people requiring intensive nursing, rehabilitation, or related services***
- primarily provide domiciliary care
- can accommodate both the severely medically disabled and relatively self sufficient residents
domiciliary care
care in the house
the hospice movement is concerned with care for terminally ill patients. Which of the following is/are major goals of hospice care
- providing an alternative to the curative/intervention approach of hospital in the care of the terminally ill
- providing state of the art pain relief interventions while supporting the patient and his/her family through the life death transition
- the above ^^^
- decreasing costs of care for the terminally ill by limiting the use of expensive, life prolonging technology -> X
what is the goal of long term care?
-long term care kicks in after the likelihood of independence is low
- promote functional independence
- reverse the decline in activities of daily living*
- return a person to independence- assisted living community maybe
- cope with multiple chronic conditions*
