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| Presupposes the existence of illness or disease, thereby emphasizing clinical diagnosis and medical intervention in the treatment of disease or its symptoms. |
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| Health (via medical model) |
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| The absence of disease or illness. When a person is free of symptoms and needs no medical treatment. |
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| Health care delivery (medical model) |
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| The delivery of medical care or illness care. |
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| Health (medical sociologists) |
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| The state of optimal capacity of an individual to perform his or her expected social roles and tasks, such as work, school, and household chores. |
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| Health (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) |
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| A state of physical and mental well-being that facilitates the achievement of indivdual and societal goals. |
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| Health (World Health Organization) |
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| A complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. |
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| All activities aimed at promoting, restoring, or maintaining health. |
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-Self-reported health status
-Life expectancy
-Morbidity (disease)
-Mental well-being
-Social functioning
-Functional limitations
-Disability
-Spiritual well-being |
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| Seeks to treat the individual as a whole person. Four aspects of necessary for optimal health: physical, mental, social, and spiritual. |
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| Recognized by means of a person's own perceptions and evaluation of how s/he feels. |
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| Determination is based on a medical professional's evaluation rather than on the patient's assessment. |
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| Severe, episodic (of short duration), and often treatable. Subject to recovery, often treated in a hospital setting. |
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| Between acute and chronic on disease continuum. Requires further treatment after a brief stay in the hospital. |
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| Less severe, but of long and continuous duration. Controlled via appropriate medical treatment, but if untreated can lead to severe and life-threatening consequences. |
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1) An indicator of how satisfied a person was with his or her experiences while receiving healthcare services.
2) Refers to a person's overall satisfaction with life and with self-perceptions of health, particularly after some medical intervention. |
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| Determinants of health (4) |
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1) Environment - physical, socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and sociocultural dimensions of life.
2) Behavior & Lifestyle - personal choices such as diet, exercise, and risky behaviors.
3) Heredity - genetic risk factors
4) Medical care - both individual and population health are closely linked to access to adequate preventative and curative healthcare services. |
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| Healthy People 2010 (emphasis) |
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| Emphasized the role of community partners such as businessses, local governments, and civic, professional, and religious organizations as effective agents for improving health in their local communities. |
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| Health People 2020 (goals) |
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-Attaining high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, injury, and premature death.
-Achieving health equity, eliminating disparities, and improving the health of all groups.
-Creating social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
-Promoting quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. |
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| Market Justice Characteristics |
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-Views healthcare as an economic good.
-Assumes free market conditions for health services delivery
-Assumes that markets are more efficient in allocating health resources equitably.
-Production and distribution of healthcare are determined by market-based demand.
-Medical care distribution is based on people's ability to pay.
-Assess to medical care is viewed as an economic reward of personal effort and achievement. |
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| Social Justice Characteristics |
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-Views healthcare as a social resource.
-Requires active government involvement in health services industry.
-Assumes that the government is more efficient in allocating health resources equitably.
-Medical resource allocation is determined by central planning
-Ability to pay is inconsequential for receiving medical care.
-Equal access to medical services is viewed as a basic right. |
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| Market Justice Implications |
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-Individual responsibility for health.
-Benefits are based on individual purchasing power.
-Limited obligation to the collective good.
-Emphasis on individual well-being.
-Private solutions to social problems.
-Rationing based on ability to pay. |
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| Social Justice Implications |
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-Collective responsibility for health.
-Everyone is entitled to a basic package of benefits.
-Strong obligation to the collective good.
-Community well-being supersedes that of the individual.
-Public solutions to social problems.
-Planning rationing of healthcare. |
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| Demand-side rationing (price rationing) |
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| Prices and ability to pay combine to ration the quality and type of healthcare services people consume. |
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| Supply-side rationing (planned rationing) |
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| When the government makes deliberate attempts to limit the supply of healthcare services, particularly those beyond the basic level of care. |
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| A reflection of society's desire and effort to improve the health and well-being of the total population, and relies on the role of government, the private sector, and the public in addition to focusing on the determinants of population health. |
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| An organized effort to deliver public health services within a jurisdiction with the goal of improving health and well-being of the population. |
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| Via the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, working to transform and strengthen the public health system (21 states are currently participating). |
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| Social and Medical Points of Intervention (4) |
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1) Social or medical care policy interventions.
2) Community-based interventions.
3) Health care interventions.
4) Individual interventions. |
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| The difference of one's actions toward and individual or group based on the innate personal characteristics of that group. |
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