HCDS Questions Chapters 9-14 All comments are due by the end of the day on May 10.

1.What is capitation? How does this payment arrangement share risks with providers.
2.Explain the growth of managed care that began in the 1980s.
3. What is gatekeeping?  Explain briefly how it works.
4.How do PPOs mainly differ from HMOs?
5. What are ADLs and IADLs?  What purpose do they serve in long term care?
6.Briefly describe how the holistic model of health in long term care delivery incoporates physical, social, mental, and spiritual elements.
7.Discuss the role of case management in long term care delivery.
8. How can nursing care facilities enhance the patients' quality of life?
9.Describe the type of clients for whom skille nursing care would be most appropriate.
10. What is a vulnerability model?  What are the distinctive characteristics of this model?
11. What are the racial/ethnic minority categories in the United States?
12.Compared with white Americans, what are the health challenges faced by minorities?
13. Who are the AAPIs?
14. Which childhood characteristics have implications for health care design?
15. What are the challenges in rural health?
16. Who tend to be uninsured?
17.What are the characteristics and health concerns of the homeless population?
18.How is mental health provided in the US?
19. What causes AIDS? What are some of the widely recognized risk factor that promote transmission of HIV?  How expensive is the treatment for AIDS??