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

20. What are the 2 main objectives of this chapter 12?
21.What are the 3 major cornerstones of health care delivery?
22.What is meant by the term "health care costs"?  Describe the 3 different meaning of the term"cost".
23.Why should the US control the rising cost of health care?
24.Name and describe the 9 major factors to the high costs of health care.
25.What is third party payment/reimbursement?
26.Explain how under imperfect market conditions, both prices and quantities of health care are higher than they would be in a highly competitive market.
27. Discuss price controls and their effectiveness in controlling health care expenditures.
28. What does access to care mean?  What are the implications of access for health and health care delivery?
29.What are some of the implications of the definition of quality proposed by the Institute of Medicine? In what way is the definition incomplete?
30.Discuss the dimensions of quality from the micro- and macro- perspectives.
31.Discuss the main developments in process improvement that have occurred in recent years.
32. What is health policy?  How can health policies be used as regulatory or allocative tools?
33. What are the principle features of the US health policy?  Why do these features characterise US health policy?
34.Identify health care interest groups and their concerns.
35.What is the important decentralized role of the  states?
36. What is the policy of legislative health policy in the US?How is this process related to the principle features of  US health policy?
37.Describe the critical policy issues related to access to care,cost of care and quality of care.
38.What do you think the future of health policy will look like in the US?
39.What are some of the recommendations for making the current health care system more adaptable to address the growing need for chronic care?
40.What is evidence based medicine?

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??