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______ avoids the development of disease.
Primary prevention
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______ activities are focused on early disease detection, which prevents progression of the disease.
Secondary prevention
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_______ reduces the impact of an already established disease by reducing disease realted complications.
Tertiary prevention
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______ was recommended because it focused on the systematic continuous data collection of health issues, which would ensure that public health agencies were vigilant in protecting the public.
Assessment
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______ should also include planning at all health levels, not just federally.
Policy development
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______ focuses on evaluating any processes that have been put in place to assure that the programs are being implemented appropriately.
Assurance
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What is the study of disease distribution and patterns among populations
Epidemiology
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What is a private standard developed by accepted organizations as a way to meet certain standards?
Accreditation
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What does a hospital need in order to obtain Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement?
Certification
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What provides care for patients who have a life threatening illness and the patient's family?
Hospice Care
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What is the essential component of the US healthcare system because it is the point of entry into the system--where the patient makes first contact with the system?
Primary care
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What are services that involve an overnight stay of a patient?
Inpatient services
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_____ are also called primary care physicians. Their focus is preventive services such as immunizations, health examinations, etc. They often serve as a gatekeeper for a patient, which means they coordinate patient care if the patient needs to see a specialist for more complex medical problems.
Generalists
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What services typically focus on acute care, which includes secondary and tertiary care levels that most likely require inpatient care?
Inpatient services
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_____ are required to be certified in their area of specialization. This may require additional years of training, and require a board certifying or credentialing examination.
Specialists
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Used in both fee-for-service and prepaid plans, ______ are costs that the patient must pay at the time they receive the services.
Copayments
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Most insurance policies require a contribution from the covered individual in the form of a copayment, deductible, and/or coinsurance. What is this concept?
Cost sharing
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______ are payments that are required prior to the insurance paying for services rendered in a fee-for-service plan.
Deductibles
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This was created in 1987 to to implement a new national prevention strategy to increase life expectancy, reduce health disparities and increase access to preventive services.
Healthy people 2000
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Examples of this include smoking cessation programs and pregnancy education.
Primary prevention
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These are large patterns of disease within a population that affect the population.
Epidemic
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This individual oversees the Public Health Service Corps, the commissioned officers in Public Health.
The surgeon general
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This core function of Public Health focuses on the collection of data to inform decision making.
Assessment
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These predecessors of hospitals primarily provided health care to the poor.
What is poorhouse (pesthouse)?
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This is private standard is widely accepted by health care organizations.
Accreditation
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This is required for hospitals to receive reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid.
Certification
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This special reimbursement provides Rural hospitals with funding for capital costs which enables these facilities to expand.
Cost Plus
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This is the largest payer of hospital services in the U.S. health care system.
Medicare
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This is the branch of federal government that oversees health related agencies.
Executive Branch
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This federal agency administers government sponsored health insurance programs.
Medicare
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This level of government has the most direct role in the delivery of health care.
Local health departments
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This federal agency was established after the terrorist attacks that occured on September 11, 2001.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
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This federal agency oversees the enoromous U.S. pharmaceutical industry.
FDA
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These physicians are trained to focus on the whole body and have a more holistic approach to health care as opposed to their counterparts, which focus of diseases within specific body systems.
What is an Osteopath (D.O.)?
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This profession represents the largest group in the health workforce.
Nursing
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These independent health care providers (not physicians) provide holistic health care services and focus on the alignment of the body.
Chiropractor
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Primary health care services are provided by this type of provider.
Generalist
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This federal government program provides funding to aide in recruitment of health professionals into geographic areas with health professional shortages.
National Health Service Corps
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These types of health care services normally require an overnight stay in the hospital.
Inpatient
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This type of health care service, literally meaning "walking" is generally provided in a physician office.
Ambulatory
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This type of health care is provided to consumers who need medical care but the situation is not life threatening
Urgent care
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This type of health care is generally provided to elderly persons who are experiencing problems with mobility.
Home health care
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This type of health care is provided to terminally ill patients and their families.
Hospice Care
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