Please, I need help for this short answers questions for my assignment from the
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Please, I need help for this short answers questions for my assignment from the essentials of the U.S. Healthcare system text material please.
1. What are the different concepts applied to the various definitions of health and the contributions each makes to the overall model of health?
2. In addition to the common attributes shared by all systems, what additional characteristics are attributable to large human-created systems?
3. What are the medical, social, and economic characteristics of the patient and how do they influence the healthcare system?
4. What are the critical building blocks of a successful health system and how do they impact the success of the system?
5. What are three widely accepted measures of the overall functioning of health systems and how do they relate to each other?
6. Describe the different environmental and national contexts that influence the development and management of a country’s healthcare system.
7. What are the nonmedical services health systems provide in the arena of public health and how do they impact community health and well-being?
8. Provide a brief description and application for the commonly used population health indicators.
9. Describe the impacts that decreasing rates of communicable diseases and increasing rates of communicable diseases have on national health systems?
10. _______ refer to the total number of patients released from a hospital’s acute care beds during a given period, including those patients who die while in the hospital.
11. _______ refers to the number of beds set up, staffed, and made available by a hospital for inpatient use.
12. _______ services refer to any health care services that do not require an overnight stay in an institution of health care delivery.
Explanation / Answer
The different concepts applied to the various definitions of health are; the Traditional Health Concept that considers health as a disease-free state. The holistic concept of health as developed by The (WHO) as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely as the absence of disease or infirmity”. The recent Ecological Concept of Health that lays emphasis on the interrelationships between the environment and the individual’s quality of life.