Wk 7 (Feb 18) highlights Flashcards
Quality of healthcare can be assessed by what 3 things?
Structure, process, and outcome measures.
Regarding quality of healthcare, which of the 3 parts:
1) Is related to infrastructure?
2) Is defined as “The procedures and formal processes”?
3) Focuses on the result of the care?
1) Infrastructure Structure
2) Process
3) Outcome measures
Quality of healthcare services:
1) What element of healthcare service quality may administrators focus on?
2) What element of healthcare service quality may clinicians focus on?
1) Structure
2) Process
Quality of healthcare services:
1) What element of healthcare service quality may patients focus on?
2) Who might focus on outcome?
1) Process
2) External reviewers
Clinicians and patients may both focus on what part of healthcare quality?
Process
What else might contribute to issues with the quality of healthcare?
Access to care
True or false: Lack of insurance leads to poorer outcomes
True
Before the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, ____% of the population lacked health insurance.
15%
True or false: monthly [insurance] premiums rise in proportion to wages
True
What 3 aspects of a disease can we use to describe a health problem?
1) Burden
2) Course
3) Distribution
Occurrence of morbidity and mortality due to a disease refers to what?
Burden
Mortality rates = ________ rates
death
Mortality rates are close to incidence rates in the most _____________ diseases
lethal
Mortality rates are considerably lower than incidence rates in _________ lethal diseases/diagnoses
less
Infant mortality rate estimates what?
Rate of death in the first year of life
Define intentional and unintentional injuries
1) Intentional = on purpose
2) Unintentional = accidental
In the US in 2022, __________ mortality rate was 5.6 (deaths per 1,000 live births)
infant
Life expectancy rate measures what?
Overall death experience of a population.
1) What does life expectancy incorporate?
2) What can you NOT use life expectancy to predict?
1) The probability of dying at each year of life for a particular country.
2) Cannot be used to accurately predict future life spans, esp. for newborns.
1) 3rd leading cause of death in the US is what?
2) What is the leading cause of death < 50yr olds?
1) Injuries
2) Injuries
Prevention of injuries is rooted in what?
Epidemiology
Homicide rates in 2016 were ______x higher than those in other developed countries
5-20x
____% of all homes possess a firearm (US)
41%
A central feature of the NIMS is an ______________________
Incident Command System (ICS)
What are the three “E’s” of injury prevention?
1) Education
2) Engineering
3) Enforcement
