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Health and Healthcare: Terms, Definitions, and Contexts, Quizzes of Conflictology

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.

What you will learn

  • What is the difference between chronic and acute diseases?
  • What is the infant mortality rate and how is it calculated?
  • What is the definition of health?

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TERM 1
Health
DEFINITION 1
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
TERM 2
Infant Mortality Rate
DEFINITION 2
The number of babies who die before their first birthday out
of every 1,000 babies born.
TERM 3
Life Expectancy at Birth
DEFINITION 3
The number of years, on average, people in a society can
expect to live.
TERM 4
Chronic Disease
DEFINITION 4
An illness that has a long-term development.
TERM 5
Acute Disease
DEFINITION 5
An illness that strikes suddenly.
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Health

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. TERM 2

Infant Mortality Rate

DEFINITION 2 The number of babies who die before their first birthday out of every 1,000 babies born. TERM 3

Life Expectancy at Birth

DEFINITION 3 The number of years, on average, people in a society can expect to live. TERM 4

Chronic Disease

DEFINITION 4 An illness that has a long-term development. TERM 5

Acute Disease

DEFINITION 5 An illness that strikes suddenly.

Social Epidemiology

The study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a society's population. TERM 7

Epidemic

DEFINITION 7 The rapid spreading of a disease through a population. TERM 8

Socialized

Medicine

DEFINITION 8 A medical care system in which the government owns and operates most medical facilities and employs most physicians. TERM 9

Direct-Fee System

DEFINITION 9 A medical care system in which patients or their insurers pay directly for the services of physicians or hospitals. TERM 10

Disability

DEFINITION 10 A physical or mental condition that limits everyday activities.

What Are 6 Reasons Why Health Care is So

Expensive?

  1. Spread of private insurance.2. More doctors who specialize.3. More high technology.4. Lack of preventive care.5. Aging population.6. More lawsuits. TERM 17

Defensive

Medicine

DEFINITION 17 Doctors will also order unnecessary tests and procedures to protect themselves against lawsuits. TERM 18

Preadmission Testing

DEFINITION 18 Doctors order blood work, X-rays, and other tests beforedeciding whether a patient needs to be admitted to a hospital. TERM 19

Who Pays for Health Care?

DEFINITION 19

  1. Private Insurance Programs2. Health Maintenance Organizations3. GovernmentInsurance Programs TERM 20

Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)

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

What are Medicare and Medicaid (enacted

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

  1. Medicaid poor people with special needs: blind, permanently disabled, pregnant, aged, or live in families with dependent children veterans can recieve free care in government operated hospitals TERM 22

National Institutions of Health (NIH), 1990

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

Anorexia

DEFINITION 23 A form of compulsive dieting that leads people to eat too little to maintain a healthy body weight. TERM 24

Bulimia

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

Master Status

DEFINITION 25 When other people may overlook a person's abilities and see only the disability.

Structural-Functional Analysis

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

Talcott Parsons (1951)

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

Symbolic-Interaction Analysis

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

Social-Conflict Analysis

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

Conservatives in Politics and Health

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

Liberals in Politics and Health

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

The Radical Left in Politics and Health

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

Which theoretical approach links patterns of

health to inequality based on gender?

DEFINITION 38 Feminist TERM 39

The leading cause of death among African

American men aged fifteen to thirty-four is?

DEFINITION 39 Homicide