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Health Promotion in Healthcare
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Health Care
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06/20/2011

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Term
Health Care
Definition
care provided to individuals or communities by agents of the health services or professions for the purpose of monitoring, promoting, maintaining and restoring health
Term
US Healthcare System Then
Definition
Largely generalists, few hospitals, little regulation, low technology, fewer treatment options, low public expectations
Term
Healthcare System Now
Definition
More Generalists, more technology, more regulations, more hospitals, high public expectations
Term
Challenges of US health Care System
Definition
Rising Health Care Cost, Aging Population, Fragmented care, End-of-Life Care, Legislative Mandates, Rising Health Care Cost, Quality Health Care, Providing for the uninsured
Term
National Healthcare Expenditures
Definition
$2.9 Trillion-2009=17.3% GDP
Term
GDP Projected in 2019
Definition
19.3%
Term
Percentage of Ininsured Americans
Definition

47 Million

53.3% Whites

24.3%Hispanics

16.5% Blacks

Term
Increasing Aging Population
Definition

35 Million-2010

55 Million-2020

70 Million-2030

Term
1700-1800
Definition

Focus was on infectious diseases

Poorly trained physicians

Term
1800-1900
Definition

Focus on clean water and sanitation to combat diseases

 

American Medical Association established

Term
1900-1930
Definition

Flexnor Report

 

Standardized medical admissions and education

Term
1930-1950
Definition

CDC

NIH

 

1950- cigarette smoke attributed to lung cancer

 

Public health and health promotion begins

 

1930-Roosevelt signed Social Security Act to provide health insurance for the retired

1940's employers began to offer health insurance to employees

Term
Health Promotion
Definition
the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health". The primary means of health promotion occur through developing healthy public policy that addresses the prerequisites of health such as income, housing, food security, employment, and quality working conditions.
Term
Public Health
Definition

" preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals"

The focus of public health intervention is to improve health and quality of life through the prevention and treatment of disease and other physical and mental health conditions, through surveillance of cases and the promotion of healthy behaviors

Term

1960's

 

Definition

1965- Medicaid and Medicare signed into law

 

1964-1st Surgeon General's Report

 

Warning labels on cigaretter packs

Term
1990s
Definition

Clinton signed HIPAA into law

 

FMLA

 SCHIP

HIPAA

Term
1980s
Definition
COBRA-requires employees to offer health coverage to terminated employees
Term
2000s
Definition

Medicare part D was added to provide prescription coverage for the elderly

 

Health care Reforme with Obama

Term
Health Care Expenditures GDP
Definition

19%

in 2007-17.3% @ 2.5 trillion dollars

 

Term
Life Expectancy
Definition

80 females

75 males

Term
HMO
Definition

less freedom with traditionally less cost

tends to have gate keepers

Term
HMO Group Models
Definition

Staff model hire providers to work at one location

 

Group model negotiats with a group of physicians to perform services exclusively

 

Network models is similar to a group model but physicans can see other patients

 

HMO models have gatekeepers

Term
PPO
Definition

a group of independent physicians that contract with managed care plans for discounted rates

 

Patients are offered financial incentives to choose participant providers

Term
POS
Definition
A hybrid of the HMO and PPO, they encouraging but do not require the use of a primary care provider
Term
Capitation
Definition
The provider is paid a fixed monthly amount per employer
Term
Discounted Fee
Definition
the provider providrs the service and then bills the MCO based on a prearranged set fee schedule
Term
How costs are controlled
Definition

through utilization management

 

  • Retrospective Utilization Review
  • Precertification
  • Primary care gatekeepers
  • Primary care case managers
  • Demand management
  • disease management

 

Term
Who pays for Health Insurance
Definition

Employers pay premiums

 

Employees pay premiums, copays, deductibles and coinsurance

 

Health Plan-assumes the risk of paying the health member's healthcare

 

Provider-assumes little financial risk

Term
Primary Care
Definition
Routine care and checkups
Term
Secondary Care
Definition

Intention to treat on a short-term for an illness, may require specialist intervention

 

 

Term
Tertiary Care
Definition
highly specialized treatment for complex medical care
Term
Primary Prevention
Definition

Focuses on redcucing the onset of a disease

 

Term
Secondary Prevention
Definition
Focuses on stopping the progression of a disease or illness
Term
Tertiary Prevention
Definition
Focuses on slowig the progression of an illness through rehab and monitoring
Term
Medicare
Definition

A social insurance program administered by the government for people 65 years or older, signed into law in 1965

35 million Americans are enrolled

Term
Different Parts of Medicare
Definition

Parts A-Hospital insurance

Part B-supplemental health insurance

Part C-Medicare Advantage, designed like to move patients into HMOs and PPO's

Part D-Prescription Drug Benefit

Term
Medicaid
Definition
Designed for families with a low income.  It an entitlement program funded by state and fderal includes low income parents, seniors, children and disabled
Term
SCHIP
Definition
for those whosse income is too high for medicaid but too low to afford tradition insurance
Term
TRICARE
Definition
Military Health Services which provides medical services to all active duty and retired members
Term
The Indian Health Services
Definition

Comprehensive healthcare for 2 million native Americans

includes 33 hospitals, 59 health centers and 50 health stations

Term
US preventive Task Force
Definition

Expert committee recommendations

 

Each translation provides a grade for the recommendation based on the strength of clinical evidence and overall net benefit

 

Translations also include background information and cost data when available as well as actionable strategies for employees including programmatic ideas and communication

Term
Different recommendations
Definition

Osteoporosis

Bladder cancer

oral cancer

prostate cancer

obesity

hypertension

Depression

Breastfeeding

Term
Stats on the Elderly
Definition
  • Home health care- $150K/ yr
  • 60% of seniors > 85 living in nursing homes
  • 80% of older Americans have one chronic disease
  • There will be 71 million older adults in 2030 (20%0 of population
Term

Economics of aging

 

Definition

cost of providing health care for older amercians is 3-5 times higher

By 2030 healthcare spendinf will increase by 20%

Term
Prevention for Elderly
Definition
  • Behavioral-smoking, diet and inactivity
  • Pscyhological-fear of falling, self-efficacy, self acceptance, environmental control
  • Physiological-low risk of disease, high cognitive and physical functioning
Term
The solution for Elderly
Definition
  • Need to do a better job at managing chronic disease
  • Need to be more aggressive with health and promotion
  • Need to have societal discussion
  • Engage in the conversation on medical limits
Term
Health Care Reform overarching themes
Definition
  • Every American Needs health insurance
  • Health Insurance should be affordable
  • Promote prevention and wellness
Term

TITLE IV

Prevention of Chronic disease and improving public health

(health Care Reform)

Definition
  • Subtitle A-establish health prevention and promotion strategy
  • Subtitle B-Increasing access to clinical prevention services to all, especially Medicare and Medicaid
  • Subtitle B-Healthier Communities through community based programs and foor labeling in restaurant chains
  • Subtitle D: support for Innovation on research and effectiveness of prevention and ph services with a focus on health disparities, workiste health and childhood obesity
  • Subtitle E: Better scoring practices with NCQA

 

Term
How does HC Reform Benefit HP
Definition
  1. Recognizes the value of prevention
  2. Provides credibility to the field
  3. attempts to reach more of the population
  4. requires evaluation on effectiveness
Term
Healthy People 2020
Definition
  1. Eliminate preventable diseases
  2. Acheive health equity , eliminate health disparities
  3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health
  4. Promote the development  and healthy behaviors at every stage of life
Term
Determinants of Health
Definition

Policy/Intervention

Behavior

Social environment

physical environment

Individual

Biology

Term
Communication Strategy of Health People 2020
Definition

Map-it-mobilize, assess, plan, implement and track

interactive webite with toolkits

Term
New Topics for Healthy People 2020
Definition

Adolescent Health

LGB

Older Health

Dementias

Global Health

Sleep Health

Health Care associate infections

Term
Health Disparities
Definition
a particular type of health difference that is closely related with social, economic or environmental disadvantages.  Adversely affects groups of people who have systematically experiences greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; relgion, gender, age
Term
CDC
Definition

Established in 1946

Four Goals:

Healthy People Stay Healthy

Preparing people for emerging health threats

positive international health

healthy people at all stages of life

Term
NIH
Definition
  1. Established in 1930
  2. Primary agency for research toward preventing and curing diseases
  3. 27 instiutes
Term
AHRQ
Definition

Established in 1989

Mission to improve  the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of health care for all

 

  1. health care cost and utilization
  2. Information technology
  3. medication safety
  4. healthcare consumerism

 

Term
FDA
Definition

Established in 1906

ensures the safety of food, animal and veterinary products, biologic products, cosmetics, medical equipment electronic products

Term
OSHA
Definition

establishe in 1970

governs workplace environments to make sure that employees are safe and healthy while at work

Term
Surgeon General US Public health Services
Definition

SG provides info on how to improve the health of the US pop

6000 public health professionals to address disease prevention, eliminate health disparities and disaster preparedness

Term
US prevention taske force
Definition
  • Each translation provides a grade for the recommendation
  • Translation also includes background information and cost date
Term
Electroni Health Records
Definition

A new health health system for the 21st century

 

  • immediate access to a persons health history
  • longitudinal data
  • established system to provide decision support, quality and safety
Term
Benefits/Barriers to Eelectronic Health Records
Definition

More comprehensive reporting

analyze review of patient outcome

process restore data

improve operational efficiency

 

Consistency

funding

hardware support

training the staff

Term
Different categories for Information Technology
Definition
  • Health education while patients wait
  • Medical billing management
  • biometric authentication technology
  • scan patient insurance card
Term
Ethics
Definition

The moral foundation fro standards of conduct

right and wrong choices

Term
Euthanasia
Definition
inducement of painless death
Term
Medical Ethics
Definition
  • decisions made with regard to a patient's medical treatment
  • Advanced directives are orders that the patient gives to not prolong life
Term
Bioethics
Definition
  • Concerned with the ethical implications of certain biologic and medical procedures and technologies, such as cloning
Term
Engineering model (patient doctor relationship)
Definition
Patient is empowered to make decisions about their healthcare
Term
Priestly model
Definition
The doctory makes the decisions
Term
Contractual Model
Definition
from a legal standpoint, their is an agreement between the doctor and the patient
Term
Collegial model
Definition
trust is established and doctor and patient make decisions equally
Term
Ethics and Public Health Issues
Definition
  • inaccessibility to health care
  • response to bioterrorism
  • Research in developing countries
  • health promotion and its infringement on individual lifestyle choices
Term
Benefits of health Promotion in the workplace
Definition
  • accessibility
  • social support
  • financial incentives convenience
  • health care costs
  • productivity
  • convenience
Term
Hot Topics
Definition
  • Rising Healthcare Cost
  • Economic crisis
  • Obesity epidemic
  • Multigenerational workforce
  • unsustainable health care
  • productivity
Term
A comphensive approach (what's currently lacking)
Definition
  • a systemic approach
  • population perspective
  • a sound informational infrastructure
  • adequate impact on productivity
  • strong outcomes
Term
From Absence of Health to
Definition
Health as vitality and energy
Term
From Cost of Health care
Definition
Total value of health
Term
Individual Participation
Definition
Population Engagement
Term
From Behavior Health Change
Definition
Culture of Health
Term
Worksite Wellness
Definition
Organized program in the workplace that is designed to improve health and productivity, and reduce healthcare costs
Term
Health and Productivity Management
Definition
The integrated management of health risks and chronic illnesses to reduce employees total health-related costs
Term
Health as Human Capital
Definition
Investing in people's well being is the most powerful tool in improving health
Term
health promotion
Definition

the science of helping people change their lifestyle to move to a state of optimal health

 

HP professionals:

enhance awareness

change behaviors

create environments that promote good health practices

Term
Public Health
Definition

organized community efforts aimed at prevention of disease and promotion of health

epidiologically driven

Term
Optimal health
Definition
physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual balance
Term
Future of health promotion programs
Definition

Engage a higher proportion of individuals

integrate and create seamless experience

Demonstrate the real costs of savings

 

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