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Viewpoint about health the focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disease

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Medical model

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A viewpoint about health that focuses on the prevention of disease

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Wellness model

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What is the impact of baby boomers?

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As people age older, the demand for home health care and geriatric care increases, gap in job positions, higher rates of chronic disease

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State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

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Health

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Describes how well-being is more than being free of disease and illness; incorporates mental and emotional health

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Health Continuum

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____ have longer life expectancies

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Women

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What do women require more of than men?

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Health care

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The quality of social and physical conditions in which people live, work, learn and play

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Social determinants of health

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Goal is to increase access to affordable care, holding insurance companies accountable, and to improve quality and lowering of health care cost

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Affordable Care act

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How does health care abroad vary from health care in the US?

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Health care is a lot more affordable and is not as costly compared to the US. For example, most health care costs are free or have a very small fee.

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Function under a market economy model determined by supply and demand

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US health care

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What are the top 10 causes of death for lower income countries?

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Respiratory infections, HIV, Stroke, TB, birth complications, etc.

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What are the top 10 causes of death for higher income countries?

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Heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s, diabetes

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What are the leading health indicators?

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Access to health and clinical services, environmental equality, injury and violence, oral health, nutrition, mental health, tobacco, sexual health

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Science of protecting and improving the health of families and communities through promotion of health lifestyles, research for disease, injury prevention, etc.

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Public health

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What are the 3 parts of health core functions and essential services?

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Assessment, policy development, assurance

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All public, private, and voluntary entities that contribute to the delivery of essential public health services within a jurisdiction

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Public health systems

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What are the 4 divisions of the Kent County health department?

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Administration, community clinical services, environmental health, community wellness

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Includes epidemiology, emergency preparedness, marketing, medical examiner

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Administration

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Includes immunization, STD care, TB prevention and control, WIC

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Community clinical services

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Includes childhood lead poisoning, Child loss program, maternal and child home visiting programs, obesity initiative, medicaid, refugee services, vision and hearing screening

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Community wellness

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Includes lab services, food service sanitation, animal control, body art program

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Environmental health

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What are some public health achievements?

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Fluoridation, Sanitation, etc.

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Research whose major aim is to find a cure for a specific disease

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Curative research

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Research whose major aim is to control symptoms, not curing a disease
Control research
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Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems
Epidemiology
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What are the 3 basic rates of epidemiology?
Incidence, mortality, prevalence
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Number of deaths over a population
Mortality
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Number of a new cases over a population at risk
Incidence
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Number cases over a population
Prevalence
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Describes to occurrence of health-related events by time, place, and person
Descriptive epidemiology
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Aims to direct prompt and effective public health control prevention measure
Analytic epidemiology
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What are the goals of the department of health and human services?
Strengthen health care, advance in knowledge and innovation, advance health, safety and well-being of Americans
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Promote the economic and social well-being of families, individuals, and communities through a range of educational and supportive programs for youth and family
Administration for children and families
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Ensure the continued protection of individuals with disabilities and prevent their abuse and neglect
Administration for community living
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Supports research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its costs, and broaden access to services
Agency for healthcare research and quality
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Protects the public health of the nation by providing leadership and direction in the prevention and control of diseases
Center for disease control and prevention
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Ensures that food is safe, human and animal drugs, biological products, and medical services are safe and effective
Food and drug administration
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Combines the oversight of the Medicare program, State children's health insure program and health insurance marketplace
Centers for Medicare and medicaid services
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Therapeutic and diagnostic devices used by health professionals to prevent, treat, and diagnose illness and assist patients medically
Medical technology
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What are the 5 types of medical technology?
Medical devices, medical imaging, minimal invasive surgery, genetic mapping and testing, gene therapy
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Includes implants and things such as blood pressure cuffs
Medical Devices
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Includes CAT scans, MRI, etc.
Medical imaging
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Includes finding genes that may lead to diseases such as breast cancer
Genetic mapping
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Treatment of disease using normal or altered genes to replace of enhance nonfunctional or missing genes
Gene therapy
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Use of fiber optics, guided images, microwave, and other technologies to do surgery rather than cutting large sections of tissue
Minimally invasive surgery
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The notice to the FDA that they intend to do tests on humans
Investigation new drug application
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Formal request from the FDA to be allowed to market a new drug
New drug application
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Tests the drug to figure out what happens to the drug in the body
Phase I studies
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Studies whether the drug produces the desired effect
Phase II
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Involves thousands of patients in different parts of the country who receive a placebo and standard treatment; indicate whether the drug is safe or causes serious complications
Phase III
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FDA continues to monitor the drug, company must file problems if issues come up
Phase IV
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Drug and food additives needed to be labeled with their main ingredient
Food and Drug Act of 1906
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Required testing for safety, responsibility of pharmaceutical companies, mandatory reporting of test results
Food, Drug, and cosmetic act of 1938
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Gave FDA more control over the introduction of new products, required more extensive testing of drugs, authority to regulate drug advertising
Amendment to food, drug, and cosmetic act of 1938 in 1962
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Improves access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable
Health resources and services administration
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Provides American Indians and Alaska Natives with comprehensive health services by developing and managing programs to meet their health needs
Indian Health Service
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Provides leadership and direction to programs designed to improve health of the nation by conducting and supporting research
NIH
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Improves access and reduces barriers to high quality, effective programs and services for individuals who suffer from or are at risk for addictive and mental disorders
Substance abuse and mental health services administration
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What are some core values of the American culture?
Individualism, freedom, equality, achievement and success, efficiency, material comfort, humanitarianism, progress/science technology
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Groups that share many of the elements of mainstream culture but maintain their own distinctive customs, values, norms, and lifestyles
Subcultures
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What is the role of culture and language in a health care system?
It can determine how you may interact with a patient
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Degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information and services needed to make appropriate decisions about their health
Health literacy
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Ability of health organizations and practitioners to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, attitudes, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of specific cultural groups and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes
Cultural competence
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Health care is viewed as a basic right
Rights theory
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Health care resources should be allocated where they will do the most good
Utilitarian theory
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Tells people they ought to treat others as they wanted to be treated themselves
Kantian theory
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The right of patients to make decisions about their medical care without their health care provider trying to influence the decision
Autonomy
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Help prevent or remove harms or to improve the situation of others
Beneficence
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Refrain from harming patients or using ineffective treatment
Nonmaleficence

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