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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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| How much was US estimated to spend on healthcare in 2010? |
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| 2.6 trillion, 17.7% of GDP |
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| Biology, Behaviors, social environment, physical environment, policies and intervention, quality health services |
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| Biology (as determinant of health) |
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| genetic makeup, family history, and physical and mental health problems acquired during life. |
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| Behaviors (as determinant of health) |
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| individual responses or reactions to internal stimuli and external conditions |
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| Social environment (as determinant of health) |
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| interactions with family, friends, coworkers and others in the community, housing, transportation, presence of absence of violence in the community. |
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| Physical environment (as determinant of health) |
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| that which can be seen, touched, heard, smelled and tasted. Also includes radiation, ozone, toxins, irritants, infections agents. |
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| Policies and interventions (as determinant of health) |
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| Health promotion campaigns such as tobacco cessation, safety belts, immunization |
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| Differences in access to healthcare, insurance coverage, and quality of service received |
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| Occur when one population group experiences higher burdens of illness, injury, death, or disability than another group |
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| Institute of Medicine (IOM) |
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| Established by Congress to study healthcare disparities |
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| Recommendations of Inst of Med (IOM)'s Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care |
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1) Raise public and provider awareness
2) Expand insurance coverage
3) Improve capacity and quantity of providers in underserved communities
4) Increase understanding of the causes and interventions to reduce disparities |
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| Definition of public policy |
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| authoritative decisions made in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of the government that are intended to direct or influence the actions, behaviors, or decisions of others. |
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| decisions made anywhere within the three branches of government, at any level |
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| legislation, rules and regulations established to implement laws, judicial decisions |
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| official daily publication of proposed and final laws |
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| Categories of public policies |
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1) Distributive
2) Redistributive
3) Regulatory |
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| Categories of health policies |
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| allocative and regulatory |
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| Ideal freely competitive market |
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1) buyers and sellers have sufficient information to make informed decisions
2) large number of buyers and sellers
3) additional sellers can enter market
4) sellers products can be substituted
5) quantity of products or services available does not swing the balance of power toward buyers or sellers |
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| Purpose of subsidation of hospitals |
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| Prevent undersypply of hospitals in sparsely populated or low-income areas |
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| Examples of healthcare subsidation benefiting not only the poor |
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| Medical education, Medicare (age based), employer-provided health insurance benefits exempt from taxable income status. |
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1) market-entry restrictions
2) rate or price setting controls on providers
3) quality controls of healthcare
4) market-preserving controls
5) social regulation |
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| Define market-entry restricting regulations |
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| licensing of healthcare practitioners and organizations |
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| Define price-setting regulation |
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| rates of reimbursement for care (example is Medicare) |
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| ensure acceptable levels of safety and efficacy standards (example is FDA and Food Drug and Cosmetic Act) |
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| Define market-preserving controls |
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| workplace safety, fair employment practices, prevent environmental pollution and spread of STDs. |
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| "To ward of disease or recover health, men as a rule find it easier to depend on the healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely." |
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| Reasons poverty impacts health |
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1)Poor tend to receive a patchwork of services (instead of having a healthcare home) and are treated episodically
2)Poor children tend to have low birth weight and conditions that cause school absence.
3) exposure to harmful environments, inadequate preventive services, limited access to healthcare |
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| Inner city healthcare issues |
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| Too few providers, language barriers, functional illiteracy, marginal mental retardation |
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| What did CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2009 do? |
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| Expands CHIP coverage to additional 4 million children and covers children and pregnant women who are legal immigrants. |
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| New jobs in healthcare 2006-2016 |
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| Predicted 36% of demand will be unmet |
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| dual abilities to analyze the impact of public policies on one's domain of interest or responsibility and exert influence in the public policymaking process |
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