Unit+2+Terms

Below is space for the creation of the Unit 2 Key Terms (found on page 26 in your text) - as a class, you will decide how to divide up the work and how the terms should be organized. In addition to the creation of the terms, one person in class should be in charge of documenting who is responsible for what (in addition to their contribution to the key terms). The place to document the participation is outlined below.

This assignment is due by classtime (6:50 AM) Friday, January 9, 2008.

Jerrica: 1-28 Aaron: 29-56
 * Responsibilities:**

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - ** is a part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services which supports research designed to improve the outcomes and quality of health care, reduce its costs, address patient safety and medical errors, and broaden access to effective services. It sponsors, conducts, and disseminates research to help people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of health care services.
 * Key Terms:


 * Assisted Living Facilities** - provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs); coordination of services by outside health care providers; and monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. Assistance may include the administration or supervision of medication, or personal care services provided by a trained staff person.


 * Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -** It works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions, and it promotes health through partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease prevention and control (especially infectious diseases), environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.


 * Clinic** - is a small private or public health facility that is devoted to the care of outpatients, often in a community, in contrast to larger hospitals, which also treat inpatients. Some grow to be institutions as large as major hospitals, whilst retaining the name clinic.


 * Dental Office** - The room or rooms in which the dentist and dental staff provide care. Offices include all rooms in the dentist's office suite.


 * Emergency Care Centers** - Emergency Care Centers provide special care for victims of accidents or sudden illness.


 * U.S. Food and Drug Administration** (**FDA**) - is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for the safety regulation of most types of foods, dietary supplements, drugs, vaccines, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics. The FDA also enforces section 361 of the Public Health Service Act and the associated regulations, including sanitation requirements on interstate travel as well as specific rules for control of disease on products ranging from pet turtles to semen donations for assisted reproductive medicine techniques.

**Genetic Counseling Centers -** are centers that work with couples or individuals who are pregnant or are considering a pregnancy. They help check for possible pregnancy abnormalities.


 * Health Departments** **-** are a part of government which focuses on issues related to the general health of the citizenry. Subnational entities, such as states, counties and cities, often also operate a health department of their own. Health departments perform food licensing and food inspection (the person who performs this job is often called a Health Inspector), vaccination programs, free STD and AIDS tests, and other medical assistance. Health departments also compile statistics about health issues of their area.

**Health Insurance Plans -** plan that you chose that fits your life in case of an illness. **Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -** (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs. Title II of HIPAA, known as the Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers. **Health Maintenance Organizations -** (**HMO**) is a type of managed care organization (MCO) that provides a form of health care coverage in the United States that is fulfilled through hospitals, doctors, and other providers with which the HMO has a contract. The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 required employers with 25 or more employees to offer federally certified HMO options.[1] Unlike traditional indemnity insurance, an HMO covers only care rendered by those doctors and other professionals who have agreed to treat patients in accordance with the HMO's guidelines and restrictions in exchange for a steady stream of customers.

**Home Health Care -** (commonly referred to as domiciliary care), is health care or supportive care provided in the patient's home by healthcare professionals (often referred to as home health care or formal care; in the United States, it is known as skilled care) or by family and friends (also known as caregivers, primary caregiver, or voluntary caregivers who give informal care). Often, the term home care is used to distinguish non-medical care or custodial care, which is care that is provided by persons who are not nurses, doctors, or other licensed medical personnel, whereas the term home //health// care, refers to care that is provided by licensed personnel.


 * Hospice -** A program that provides palliative care and attends to the emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients at an inpatient facility or at the patient's home.


 * Hospitals -** An institution that provides medical, surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick or the injured.

**Independent Living Facilities -** allows individuals who can care for themselves to rent or purchase an apartment in the facility; provide services such as meals, housekeeping,laundry and transportation.


 * Laboratory -** A room or building equipped for scientific experimentation or research.


 * Long-term care -** is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical need of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods of time. It is common for long-term care to provide custodial and non-skilled care, such as assisting with normal daily tasks like dressing, bathing, and using the bathroom. Increasingly, long term care involves providing a level of medical care that requires the expertise of skilled practitioners to address the often multiple chronic conditions associated with older populations. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living or in nursing homes. Long-term care may be needed by people of any age, even though it is a common need for senior citizens


 * Managed Care -** is used to describe a variety of techniques intended to reduce the cost of providing health benefits and improve the quality of care ("managed care techniques"), organizations that use those techniques or provide them as services to other organizations ("managed care organizations"), or systems of financing and delivering health care to enrollees organized around managed care techniques and concepts ("managed care delivery systems"). According to the National Library of Medicine, the term "managed care" encompasses programs.


 * Medicaid -** program in the United States, jointly funded by the states and the federal government, that reimburses hospitals and physicians for providing care to qualifying people who cannot finance their own medical expenses.


 * Medical Offices -** range from private practices to large complexes that opperate as corporations and employ many doctors and other health care professionals.


 * Medicare -** A program under the U.S. Social Security Administration that reimburses hospitals and physicians for medical care provided to qualifying people over 65 years old.


 * Medigap -** Private health insurance designed to supplement the coverage provided under governmental programs such as Medicare.


 * Mental Health -**
 * 1) A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life.
 * 2) A branch of medicine that deals with the achievement and maintenance of psychological well-being.
 * 3) A person's overall emotional and psychological condition.


 * National Institutes of Health -** another division of the USDHHS; involved in research on disease.


 * Nonprofit Agencies** - supported by donations, membership fees, fund-raisers, and federal or state grants.


 * Occupational Safety and Health Administration -** is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. It was created by Congress under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, signed by President Richard M. Nixon, on December 29, 1970. Its mission is to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths by issuing and enforcing rules (called standards) for workplace safety and health. As of March 2006, the agency is headed by Assistant Secretary of Labor Edwin Foulke.The OSH Act, which created OSHA also created the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as a research agency focusing on occupational health and safety. NIOSH, however, is not a part of the U.S. Department of Labor.


 * Optical centers-** Owned by an optometrist and they provide eye examinations or prescribe eye glasses or contacts.


 * Organizational Structure-** Indicates areas of responsibility and lead to efficient operation of the facility


 * Preferred provider organizations-**A type of managed care health insurace plan usually provided by large industries or companies to their employees.


 * Rehabitation-**Provide care to patients with physical or mental disabilities obtain maximum self-care and function


 * School health services-** Found in schools services provide emergency care for victims of accidents and sudden illness
 * TRICARE**-is the U.S. government sponsored health insurance plan for active military members, their family and retirees


 * U.S. Department of health and Human Services**- A agency that deals with the health problems in the United States


 * Voluntary Agencies**- Supported by donations, they provide health services at national, state, and local levels.


 * Workers Compensation**-Health insurance plan providing treatment for workers injured on the job.


 * World Health Organization**-An agency of the United Nations established in 1948 to further international cooperation in improving health conditions. Although the World Health Organization inherited specific tasks relating to epidemic control, quarantine measures, and drug standardization