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| What is self-care/self treatment? |
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| Category of health care in which people have tried to help or treat themselves. |
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| What were almshouses and pesthouses? |
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| Almshouses were run by the loclal government primarily to provide food and shelter, and basic nursing care for indigent people who could not be cared for by their own families. . pesthouses served as places to isolate people who had contracted an infectious disease such as cholera, smallpox, or typhoid. |
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| Know Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946 |
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| federal legislation that provided substantial funds for hospital construction. |
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| American Health Security Act of 1993 |
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| The comprehensive health care reform introduced by then President Clinton, but never enacted. |
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| the provision of integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. |
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| specialized attention and ongoing management for common and less frequently encountered medical conditions, including support services for people with special challenges due to chronic or long term conditions. |
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| specialized and technologically sophisticated medical and surgical care for those with unusual or complex conditions (generally no more than few percent of the need in any service category) |
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| care provided after successful treatment or when the progress of an incurable disease has been arrested. |
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| different kinds of help that people with chronic illnesses, disabilities, or other conditions that limit them physically or mentally need. |
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| health care services provided to individuals shortly before death. |
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| a program of palliative and support care services providing physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for dying persons, their families, and other loved ones by a hospice worker |
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| health care professionals with education and legal authority to treat any health problem |
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| independent providers whose remedies for illnesses produce effects different from those of the disease. |
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| independent health care providers whose remedies emphasize the interrelationships of the body’s systems in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment |
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| independent providers who provide nontraditional forms of health care |
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| health care providers who provide care for a specific part of the body |
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| those prepared in one to two year programs to provide nontechnical bedside nursing care under the supervision of physicians or registered nurses. |
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| an associate or baccalaureate degree prepared nuse who has passed the state licensing examination |
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| a registered nurse holding a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) |
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| allied health care professionals |
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| health care workers who provide services that assist, facilitate, and complement the work of physicians and other health care specialist. |
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| public health professionals |
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| a health care worker who works in a public health organization |
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| nonphysician practitioner |
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| clinical professionals who practice in many of the areas similar to those in which physicians practice but do not have an MD or DO degrees. |
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| a hospital that provides mainly one type of medicine, is for profit,a nd is owned at least in part by the physicians who practices in it |
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| hospitals that are supported and managed by government jurisdictions. |
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| nonprofit hospitals administered by not-for-profit corporations or charitable community organizations. |
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| State Children’s Health Insurance Program |
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| a title insurance program under the Social Securities Act that provides health insurance to uninsured children. |
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| national health insurance program for the poor |
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| national health insurance program for ppl 65 years of age and older, centain younger disabled people, and people with permanent kidney failure. |
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| private health insurance that supplements Medicare benefits. |
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| the portion of the insurance company’s approved amounts for covered services that a beneficiary is responsible for paying |
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| the amount of expenses that the beneficiary must incur before the insurance company begins to pay for covered services |
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| a negotiated set amount that a patient pays for certain services |
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| health maintenance organization (HMO |
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| groups that supply prepaid comprehensive health care with an emphasis on prevention |
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| exclusive provider organization (EPO |
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| like a PPO but with fewer providers and stronger financial incentives |
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| preferred provider organization (PPO) |
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| an organization that buys fixed-rate health services from providers and sells them to consumers |
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| Physician-hospital organization (PHO) |
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| various agreements between physicians and hospitals to form units to negotiate with insurers as MCOs |
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| a hybrid form of health maintenance organizatoin |
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| a health maintenance organization that hires its own staff of health care providers |
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| one that contracts with multispecialty group practices |
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| one that contracts with more than one medical group practice |
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| all the external conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the growth and development of an organism or community of organisms. |
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| conditions of nature that increase the probability of disease, injury, or death of humans |
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| unwanted by-products of human activities. |
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| solid refuse from households, agriculture, and businesses |
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| liquids created when water mixes with wastes and removes soluble constituents from them by percolation |
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| a waste management approach involving the reduction or elimination of the use of materials that produce an accumulation of solid waste |
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| collection and reprocessing of a resource after use so it can be reused for the same or another purpose |
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| the natural, aerobic, biodegradation of organic plant and animal matter to compost. |
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| collection, transportation, and disposal of solid waste. |
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| Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 |
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| the federal law that sets forth guidelines for the proper handling and disposal of hazardous wastes |
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| the federal law that provided the government with authority to address interstate air pollution |
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| the federal law that aimed at ensuring that all rivers are swimmable and fishable and that limit the discharge of pollutants in US waters to zero. |
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| Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. |
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| CERCLA the federal law (Known as superfund) created to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites. |
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| a secondary air pollutant created when primary and secondary pollutants react with oxygen and sunlight. |
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| abandoned gas stations, industrial plants, and commercial worksites, most of which are contaminated with hazardous chemicals. |
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| a term to describe a situatin in which air quality in a building produces generalized signs and symptoms of ill healthin the building’s occupants. |
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| nonpoint source pollution. |
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| All pollution that occurs through the runoff, seepage, or falling of pollutants into the water. |
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| the gradual increase in the earth’s surface temperature. |
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| both wet and dry acidic deposits, which occur both within and downwind of areas that produce emissions containing sulfer dioxide and oxides of nitrogen. |
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| a condition that occurs when warm air traps cooler air at the surface of the earth. |
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| the buildup of undesirable gases and particles in the air inside a building |
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| airborne biological organisms or their particles or gases or other toxic materials that can produce illness. |
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