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Definitions for various terms related to health and healthcare, including conditions, systems, and social factors. Topics covered include chronic and acute diseases, social epidemiology, mental disorders, psychotherapy, disability, and healthcare systems such as socialized medicine and hmos. The document also discusses reasons for high healthcare costs and the role of government in healthcare.
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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 The number of babies who die before their first birthday out of every 1,000 babies born. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 The number of years, on average, people in a society can expect to live. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 An illness that has a long-term development. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 An illness that strikes suddenly.
The study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a society's population. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 The rapid spreading of a disease through a population. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 A medical care system in which the government owns and operates most medical facilities and employs most physicians. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 A medical care system in which patients or their insurers pay directly for the services of physicians or hospitals. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 A physical or mental condition that limits everyday activities.
DEFINITION 17 Doctors will also order unnecessary tests and procedures to protect themselves against lawsuits. TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 Doctors order blood work, X-rays, and other tests beforedeciding whether a patient needs to be admitted to a hospital. TERM 19
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DEFINITION 20 Private insurance organizations that provide medical care to subscribers for a fixed fee. Focus on disease preventions: pay for weight-loss classes, immunizations, and treatments to help quit smoking
They are tax funded programs that pay part of the medical costs for elderly, poor, and the disabled.1. Medicare 65 years or older people any age who are totally and permanently disabled
DEFINITION 22 Created the Office of Research on Women's Health. a government agencythat directs attention to women's to women's health issues TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 A form of compulsive dieting that leads people to eat too little to maintain a healthy body weight. TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 A disease that involves binge-purge cycles of eating large amounts of food at one sitting and then purgingby taking laxatives or inducing vomiting in order to avoid gaining weight. TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 When other people may overlook a person's abilities and see only the disability.
Viewed our lives as a complex system of roles and responsibilities that, taken together, keep society running smoothly. When ill, society allows us to assume the "sick role" as long as we are trying to seek help from medical personnel Talcott Parsons (1951) TERM 32
DEFINITION 32 Claimed that as long as people aren't to blame for their sickness, the sick role excuses them from most everyday obligation but they must try to seek help from medical personnel. This theory helps explain why members of the U.S. society feel little sympathy for people with mental disorders when they live on the streets TERM 33
DEFINITION 33 Highlights how people construct reality in their everyday lives. People in poor families consider inadequate nutrition and hunger to be a normal part of life People in rich nations have become more accepting of obesity; 2/3 of U.S. adults weigh more than they should What is considered "normal" depends on medical fact and on cultural standards that vary from place to place and time to time. TERM 34
DEFINITION 34 Links health to inequality. Basic issues includeaccess to care and in a capitalist economy, medical practice is based on the profit motive Pharmaceutical companies strive to convince doctors and the public that health depends not on how we live but on the pills we take TERM 35
DEFINITION 35 Favor allowing individuals and companies to compete freely in a market system. competition encourages doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers to keep quality high and prices low personal health reflects the choices we make about how to live
Believe that a fair and just society should strive to make everyone equal with regard to issues as basic as health care. Accept the idea of doctors and hospitals operating for profit as long as government programs are expanded so that everyone receives care TERM 37
DEFINITION 37 Believes that the inequality in health care is an injustice created by capitalism. People with wealth live long and healthy lives, but people with little income fear basic survival Solution to the world's health care needs is to abandon capitalism in favor of an economic and political system that operates in the interests of the majority TERM 38
DEFINITION 38 Feminist TERM 39
DEFINITION 39 Homicide
