Consumer Health Care

Publisher Gale

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eBook

2nd Edition 1st Edition

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Gale

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Copyright

2014

ISBN13

9781573027229

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Print

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Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

Consumer Health Care focuses on the U.S. healthcare system and the individual's experience with it. Entries cover topics related to the current state of health insurance, the various kinds (including Government programs like Medicare and Medicaid) and methods of its delivery, as well as the history of insurance and the evolution of our current for-profit system and the Healthcare legislation and reform.
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Standard features/structure of the health/medical titles in the "Gale Encyclopedia Of" books.

New kind of content, however: entries cover many topics in 12 categories: Government agencies, Government programs, Healthcare delivery, Healthcare funding, Healthcare improvement, Healthcare professions, Insurance, Issues in healthcare, Legislation, Non-governmental healthcare organizations, Non-standard medical practice, Other healthcare systems, Technology and healthcare.
Academic teaching hospital.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO).
Acute care hospital.
Addictionologist.
Advance directive.
Against medical advice (AMA).
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Aging population and the U.S. health care system.
Allopathic medicine.
Alternative medicine and standard medical practice.
American Public Health Association.
Americans with Disabilities Act provisions.
Anti-vaccine movement and medical conspiracy theories.
Ayurveda.
Case management.
Case manager.
Catastrophic illness and major medical plans.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Children's Health Insurance Program (Medicaid).
Chiropractic.
Chronic illness and the U.S. health care system.
Clinical trials, overview.
Clinical trials, phase 4.
COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) insurance.
Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA).
Community Transformation Grants (CTG).
Community-based health care.
Community-based health center.
Community-based hospital.
Concierge medicine.
Consumer assistance programs (CAPs).
Consumer eHealth Program.
Consumer protection.
Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs).
Cost of health care.
Critical access hospital.
Delivery of health care.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Determinants of health.
Dietician.
Disease management, chronic illness management.
Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD).
Donut hole.
Drugs during pregnancy, FDA categories.
Dual eligible special needs plans.
Economic globalization and the spread of disease.
Electronic biomedical data and privacy concerns.
Electronic health record (EHR).
Electronic prescribing.
End-of-life care.
Essential health benefits.
Evaluating health and medical information on the Internet.
Explanation of benefits (EOB).
Faith healing and prayer.
Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Fee-for-service models of health insurance.
Fee-for-value models of health insurance.
Flexible spendin
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