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KINE 1305 Community Health
Exam 5
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Health Care
Undergraduate 1
04/28/2009

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What is self-care/self treatment?
Definition
Category of health care in which people have tried to help or treat themselves.
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What were almshouses and pesthouses?
Definition
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
Definition
federal legislation that provided substantial funds for hospital construction.
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American Health Security Act of 1993
Definition
The comprehensive health care reform introduced by then President Clinton, but never enacted.
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primary care
Definition
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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secondary medical care
Definition
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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tertiary medical care
Definition
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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restorative care
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care provided after successful treatment or when the progress of an incurable disease has been arrested.
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long-term care
Definition
different kinds of help that people with chronic illnesses, disabilities, or other conditions that limit them physically or mentally need.
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end-of-life care
Definition
health care services provided to individuals shortly before death.
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hospice care
Definition
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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independent providers
Definition
health care professionals with education and legal authority to treat any health problem
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allopathic providers
Definition
independent providers whose remedies for illnesses produce effects different from those of the disease.
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osteopathic providers
Definition
independent health care providers whose remedies emphasize the interrelationships of the body’s systems in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
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nonallopathic providers
Definition
independent providers who provide nontraditional forms of health care
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limited care provider
Definition
health care providers who provide care for a specific part of the body
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licensed practical nurse
Definition
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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registered nurse
Definition
an associate or baccalaureate degree prepared nuse who has passed the state licensing examination
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professional nurse
Definition
a registered nurse holding a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN)
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allied health care professionals
Definition
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
Definition
a health care worker who works in a public health organization
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nonphysician practitioner
Definition
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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private
Definition
for-profit hospitals
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specialty
Definition
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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c. public
Definition
hospitals that are supported and managed by government jurisdictions.
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Voluntary
Definition
nonprofit hospitals administered by not-for-profit corporations or charitable community organizations.
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State Children’s Health Insurance Program
Definition
a title insurance program under the Social Securities Act that provides health insurance to uninsured children.
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Medicaid
Definition
national health insurance program for the poor
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Medicare
Definition
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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Medigap
Definition
private health insurance that supplements Medicare benefits.
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co-insurance payment
Definition
the portion of the insurance company’s approved amounts for covered services that a beneficiary is responsible for paying
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deductible
Definition
the amount of expenses that the beneficiary must incur before the insurance company begins to pay for covered services
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co-payment
Definition
a negotiated set amount that a patient pays for certain services
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health maintenance organization (HMO
Definition
groups that supply prepaid comprehensive health care with an emphasis on prevention
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exclusive provider organization (EPO
Definition
like a PPO but with fewer providers and stronger financial incentives
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preferred provider organization (PPO)
Definition
an organization that buys fixed-rate health services from providers and sells them to consumers
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Physician-hospital organization (PHO)
Definition
various agreements between physicians and hospitals to form units to negotiate with insurers as MCOs
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mixed model
Definition
a hybrid form of health maintenance organizatoin
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staff model
Definition
a health maintenance organization that hires its own staff of health care providers
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group model
Definition
one that contracts with multispecialty group practices
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network model
Definition
one that contracts with more than one medical group practice
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Environment
Definition
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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natural hazard
Definition
conditions of nature that increase the probability of disease, injury, or death of humans
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residue and waste
Definition
unwanted by-products of human activities.
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solid waste
Definition
solid refuse from households, agriculture, and businesses
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Leachate
Definition
liquids created when water mixes with wastes and removes soluble constituents from them by percolation
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source reduction
Definition
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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recycling
Definition
collection and reprocessing of a resource after use so it can be reused for the same or another purpose
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composting
Definition
the natural, aerobic, biodegradation of organic plant and animal matter to compost.
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solid waste management
Definition
collection, transportation, and disposal of solid waste.
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
Definition
the federal law that sets forth guidelines for the proper handling and disposal of hazardous wastes
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Clean Air Act
Definition
the federal law that provided the government with authority to address interstate air pollution
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Clean Water Act
Definition
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.
Definition
CERCLA the federal law (Known as superfund) created to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites.
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photochemical smog
Definition
a secondary air pollutant created when primary and secondary pollutants react with oxygen and sunlight.
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Brownfields
Definition
abandoned gas stations, industrial plants, and commercial worksites, most of which are contaminated with hazardous chemicals.
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sick building syndrome
Definition
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.
Definition
All pollution that occurs through the runoff, seepage, or falling of pollutants into the water.
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global warming
Definition
the gradual increase in the earth’s surface temperature.
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acid rain
Definition
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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thermal inversion
Definition
a condition that occurs when warm air traps cooler air at the surface of the earth.
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indoor air pollution
Definition
the buildup of undesirable gases and particles in the air inside a building
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biogenic pollutants
Definition
airborne biological organisms or their particles or gases or other toxic materials that can produce illness.
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