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13 Cards in this Set
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sick role |
a set of expectations intended to guide the behavior of people who are ill |
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social epidemiology |
the branch of sociology that studies how social factors influence the distribution and spread of disease in a group |
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acute diseases |
those with a fairly quick, and sometimes dramatic and incapacitating, onset from which a person either dies or recovers |
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chronic diseases |
progress over a long period of time and often exist long before they are detected (cancer) |
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preventative medicine |
changes in lifestyle or other steps that help avoid the occurrence of disease |
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curative/crisis medicine |
treating people's illness after they become ill |
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medical-industrial complex |
a coincidence of interests between physicians and other health-care providers and the industries producing health-care goods and services, with both parties profiting from the increased use of these commodities while the health-care consumer pays enormous costs for inadequate care |
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third-party medicine |
the patient pays premiums into a fund and the doctor/hospital is paid from this fund for each treatment provided to the patient |
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medicare |
government health insurance for those over sixty-five years of age |
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medicaid |
a joint federal-state program to provide medical care for low-income people of any age |
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national health insurance |
government health insurance covering all citizens |
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health maintenance organization (HMO) |
an organization that agrees to provide for all of a person's health-care needs for a fixed premium |
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managed care |
a health-care system that focuses on controlling costs by monitoring and controlling the health-care decisions of doctors and patients |
