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PVAMU CHN Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Advanced-Practice Nurse: | a nurse who holds graduate preparation in a nursing specialist area. |
| Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC): | a community responsive model of healthcare delivery that integrates both primary care and public health by combining the care of individuals and families with a focus on the community. |
| Community Participation: | Involvement of members of the community in decision making and planning for meeting their needs. |
| Declaration of Alma-Ata: | Resolution supporting primary health care for all people by 2000. |
| Digital Divide: | Gap in computer and Internet access between population groups covered by income, education level, race or ethnicity, age disability and ability. |
| Disease Prevention: | Activities that have as their goal the protection of people from becoming ill because of actual or potential health threats. |
| Health: | A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being; not merely the absence of disease or infirmity |
| Health Maintenance Organization (HMO): | A method for delivering health care whereby people pay a fixed fee for primary care, emergency care, and hospital care that is provided by a designated group of providers. |
| Health Promotion: | Activities that have as their goal the development of human attitudes and behaviors that maintain or enhance well-being. |
| Managed Care: | An integrated system for providing health care services so that consumers must abide by certain rules designed to achieve cost savings. |
| Managed Care Organizations: | An organization that provides or arranges by contract for specific health care services such as hospital care, outpatient visits, and prescription drugs. |
| National Health Service Corps: | A commissioned corps of health personnel who provide care in designated underserved areas. |
| Nurse Midwifery: | “the independent management and care of essentially normal newborns and women ante-, intra- & postpartally, and gynecologically, occurring within a health care system that provides for medical consultation, collaborative management, and referral” |
| Preferred Provider Organization (PPO): | An organization of health care providers who contract on a fee-for-service basis with third-party payers to provide comprehensive medical services to subscribers. |
| Primary Care: | The providing of integrated, accessible heath care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership w/ pt's, & practicing in the context of family & community. |
| Primary Health Care: | A combination of primary care and public health care made universally accessible to individuals and families in a community with their full participation, and provided at a cost that the community and country can afford. |
| Public Health: | Organized community efforts designed to prevent disease and promote health. IT links disciplines, builds on the science of epidemiology, and focuses on the community. |
| U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS): | federal agency most heavily involved in health and welfare. |
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