HST Vocabulary
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- Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOS)
- type of health insure plan provided by large industries for employees at low rates
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- concerned with causes, spread, and control of disease in population
- Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG)
- method of cost control, patient with certain diagnosis are admitted to hispitals & classified in one payment group
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- federal agency responsible for regulatin food and drug products sold to public
- Health Departments
- provide health serves as directed by the USDHHS and also provide specific services needed by the state or local community
- Health Insurance Plans
- covers healthcare expenses
- Health Maintenace ORD (HMO)
- provide total health care directed toward Preventive Health Care
- Holistic Health Care
- care that promotes physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual well being
- Managed Care
- all health care rpovided to a patient must have a purpose
- Long Term Care Faculties (LTC or LTCFs)
- provide assistance and care for elderly patients or individuals with disabilities or handicaps
- Medicaid
- medical assistance for individuals with low income, children who qualify for public assistance
- National Institutes of Health (HIN)
- involved in research on deseases
- Medicare
- government program that provides medical care for elderly
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- establishes and enforces standards that protect workers from job-related injuries
- Omnibus Budget Reconcilation Act (OBRA)
- federal law that regulates the education and testing of nursing assistants
- US Department of Health and Human Servises (USDHHS)
- national agency that deals with health problems in the U.S.
- Workers Compensation
- payment and care provided to an individual who is injured on the job
- World Health Org (WHO)
- compile statistics and information on diseases, publish health information, investigates & addresses serious health problems worldwide