public health: week 6

All aspects of the overall organization, financing and provision of personal healthcare services for the prevention and treatment of disease, illness and injury.

• healthcare system

• healthcare delivery system

refers to specific groups of healthcare providers within the US healthcare system that are responsible for providing healthcare to the populations they serve.

• healthcare system

• healthcare delivery system

Part of the 4 level model of the US healthcare system: the patient

• societal

• community

• relationship

• individual

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Part of the 4 level model of the US healthcare system: healthcare team, including but not limited to physicians, nurses, therapists, laboratory workers.

• societal

• community

• relationship

• individual

Part of the 4 level model of the US healthcare system:

health system infrastructure, including but not limited to inpatient and outpatient services, long-term care facilities, imaging facilities, pharmacies.

• societal

• community

• relationship

• individual

Part of the 4 level model of the US healthcare system: healthcare policy, including but not limited to legal framework, governmental and private funding, insurance regulations, research capabilities.

• individual

• relationship

• community

• societal

What event shifted the focus of healthcare delivery systems and public health systems to include prevention of non-infectious diseases and health promotion?

• emergence of chronic diseases as leading cause of death

• not this

the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health

• health promotion

• not this

include treating or reducing and underlying risk factor

• disease prevention

• health promotion

Answer explanation

but the two are closely related

strategies to reduce risk of poor health outcomes in the context of a risky health behavior

• disease prevention

• harm reduction