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25 Cards in this Set
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State of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not just the absence of disease or infirmity
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health
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All activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore, or maintain health
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health system
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view on healthcare system
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1. Most Americans think that we need fundamental changes or total overhaul of the health care system
2. most americans satisfied with own health 3. falling trust in medical leaders |
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benchmarks in us healthcare
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1. Growth of hospital and insurance
2. evolving role of govt 3. advances in technology 4. provider specialization 5. interest groups |
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fact
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About 15% of Americans do not have health insurance
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Moral, ethical, or legal principle considered as an underlying cause of truth, justice, morality or ethics
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right
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How you should be treated in the health care system,
Social movements – minority rights, HIV/AIDS patients, Autonomy – ability to make own medical decision |
individual rights
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If something is a right, then government (probably federal government) needs to ensure it
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societal rights
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public view on right to healthcare
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Many Americans support reform options, but helping the uninsured is the “most important”
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About 55-60% of Americans support a national health insurance plan financed by tax dollars that pays for most medical care
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fact
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who is gauranteed medical care?
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prison, er
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right to financial access to health care
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to help pay for medical care
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right to medical care
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to get in the door
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right to health
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right to be healthy
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cesr - subtantive elements
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availability, accessibility, acceptibility, quality
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procedural elements
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nondiscrimination, participation, access to remedies, and information
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geographic community
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where you live, where you work, where you commute
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associative community
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who are your friends? who are you influenced by?
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ascriptive community
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how do others percieve you? labels
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AUTO MECHANIC AND PHYSICIAN
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price, health more critical, body more complicated, seek second opinion, relation = personal
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optometry vs. nursing home
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more competition in both, but less satisfaction and quality in nursing home
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quality of perfect competions
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lots of seller and buyers, lots of products to choose from, perfect info, free entry and exit
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medical markets imperfect situation
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gov't regulation, info assymetry, uncertainty, externality
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patients can become customers when:
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need info, have time, and can understand their problems
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physicians have high status because:
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education, visibility, important jobs, advance quality of medicine, $, legidimacy, positive media portrayals
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