Determinants of Quality Healthcare
Determinants of Quality Health Care
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There are people from all walks of life in America. There are people of different races, cultures, different shapes and sizes and different ages. Sickness and disease can occur with anyone. A person’s lifestyle or who they are related to is just a couple of factors when it comes to what can make them sick. Not only can disease cause death but a person can even lose their life from a mere accident.
The U.S. health care delivery system was thought to be the best in the world but lately people have started to question this once open theory. Some specialists have said that our health care delivery system needs to make major developments. Throughout this paper I will give an outline of the health care delivery system of the U.S. Additionally I will discuss how health care delivery systems are evaluated. Lastly I will discuss some determinants which contribute to influences to people and their health. The ten examples of health determinants are:
Mental health Immunization
Tobacco use Access to healthcare
Physical activity Injury and violence
Overweight/obesity Environmental quality
Responsible sexual behavior Substance abuse
Mental health has been a major issue in America for decades. There just were not as many resources and treatments years ago as there are now. Families who had someone in the home with an mental illness usually threw them in an asylum mostly because the family member was an embarrassment to the family. Society was not fully educated on mental illnesses. There usually were not proper diagnoses for things such as Schizophrenia or Bipolar illnesses. Treatments a long time ago involved shock treatments and lobotomy. Lobotomy is a process
which involved cutting connections of the anterior part of the brain in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Back then,
Determinants 2
There are people from all walks of life in America. There are people of different races, cultures, different shapes and sizes and different ages. Sickness and disease can occur with anyone. A person’s lifestyle or who they are related to is just a couple of factors when it comes to what can make them sick. Not only can disease cause death but a person can even lose their life from a mere accident.
The U.S. health care delivery system was thought to be the best in the world but lately people have started to question this once open theory. Some specialists have said that our health care delivery system needs to make major developments. Throughout this paper I will give an outline of the health care delivery system of the U.S. Additionally I will discuss how health care delivery systems are evaluated. Lastly I will discuss some determinants which contribute to influences to people and their health. The ten examples of health determinants are:
Mental health Immunization
Tobacco use Access to healthcare
Physical activity Injury and violence
Overweight/obesity Environmental quality
Responsible sexual behavior Substance abuse
Mental health has been a major issue in America for decades. There just were not as many resources and treatments years ago as there are now. Families who had someone in the home with an mental illness usually threw them in an asylum mostly because the family member was an embarrassment to the family. Society was not fully educated on mental illnesses. There usually were not proper diagnoses for things such as Schizophrenia or Bipolar illnesses. Treatments a long time ago involved shock treatments and lobotomy. Lobotomy is a process
which involved cutting connections of the anterior part of the brain in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Back then,
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