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Organization of Care & The Health Workforce Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+ Types of Care - Answers -"traditional" public health -acute care -rehabilitative care -long-term care -end-of-life care "Traditional" Public Health - Answers -health promotion -prevention Health ...

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Organization of Care & The Health Workforce Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+

Types of Care - Answers -"traditional" public health

-acute care

-rehabilitative care

-long-term care

-end-of-life care

"Traditional" Public Health - Answers -health promotion

-prevention

Health Promotion - Answers -process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their
health

-moves beyond focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental
interventions

Prevention - Answers -clinical or community based

Clinical Prevention - Answers -delivered by a health care provider

-primary

-secondary

-tertiary

Community-Based Prevention - Answers -delivered by non-providers

Primary clinical prevention - Answers -aimed at individuals in the susceptibility stage

secondary clinical prevention - Answers -focus on the sub-clinical and early clinical stage

tertiary clinical prevention - Answers -directed primarily at the recovery, disability, or death stage

Acute Care - Answers -short term, intense medical care

-providing diagnosis & treatment of communicable or non-communicable disease, illness, or injury

-outpatient or inpatient

-emergency care, urgent care, short-term stabilization, pre-hospital care, critical care, trauma care,
acute care surgery

, Pre-hospital care - Answers -acute

-primary care: routine treatment of illness/disease

-speciality care: treatment focuses on a particular body system/specific disease or condition

-chronic care: continual treatment/monitoring of conditions that can be controlled but not cured

Urgent care - Answers -acute

-for illness, injury, or condition serious enough for reasonable person to seek care right away

-not so severe as to require ED care

-convenience of hours

National shift from... - Answers acute care to chronic care

Emergency care - Answers -acute

-immediate care for sudden, serious illness or injury

-life threatening or limb threatening condition

-sometimes utilized for non-emergency care by individuals who are uninsured or unable to tell whether
their situation is an emergency or not

Hospitalization - Answers -acute

-critical care

-tertiary care: hospitalization for specialty care; requires highly specialized equipment/expertise;
requires complex therapeutic interventions

-quaternary care: most complex medical/surgical care for highly specialized and unusual cases (i.e.
advanced trauma, organ transplantation)

Rehabilitative care - Answers -aimed at restoring a patient to his original state of health

-physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech/language therapy, psychiatric rehabilitation

Long-term care - Answers -mostly not medical care

-range of services for people who have lost independence due to a medical condition

-assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs)

activities of daily living - Answers bathing, dressing, eating, etc.

End-of-life care - Answers -care provided in final hours/ days of an individual's life

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