NT1310 Unit 6 Study Guide: Healthcare Terminology

1. Duty to treat: healthcare professionals must follow the policy to give treatment to the patient no matter the patient is in time of crisis or could not afford to pay.
2. Infant mortality rate: the number of death of an infant in a year per 1,000 live birth in the same year.
3. Life expectancy rates: the total number of years a person born in the same country is expected to live when the mortality rate continues to apply. For example: the life expectancy rates in Japan is 83-year-old overall of a Japanese population.
4. Charitable care or bad debt: hospital or clinic provide low medical care to low income patients and it works like a discount or assistance program. For example: JPS hospitals have JPS connection program that assist low

income patients with low health care cost.
5. Complementary and alternative medicine: A traditional medicine, practices, and products that are not part of conventional medicine and it use it as wellness therapy. For example: message and herbal medicine.
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Outpatient care centers: medical service that does not require patient to stay overnight at the hospital to get the treatment. For example: regular checkups or visits to clinics.
7. Professional associations: the organization that promote the high standards of professional practice and improving the health of society by improving the people in the profession.
8. Residential care facilities: A non-medical community-based building that provide the care includes meals, medication supervision, activities, and transportation to those who can no longer care for themselves.
9. Hazard Communication Standard (HCS): Ensure the safety of all employee by identity the chemicals that the employee exposed in the workplace. It is the employee rights to know the chemicals and the hazards in the workplace.
10. National Network on Aging: It is a government organization that provide the assistance services to older population in the nation.
11. U.S. Public Health Service Corps: it is a government services that consist commissioned officers who are there to protect and promote the health and safety of the Nation.
12. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): it is a main communication services for reporting public health information between the state health department and

CDC.
13. National Incident Management System: it is the standardized organizational structures that developed by U.S Department of Homeland Security to improve integration and connectivity among disciplines. It is starting with a common foundation of preparedness and planning.
14. National Disaster Medical System: it is a program that consist health professionals who willing to help the residents and save their lives when there is a disasters or emergencies in a community.
15. Office of Emergency Management: it is a government agency that support and provide the resources to the victims that affected by the man-made or natural disasters.
16. Public Health Accreditation Board: it is a nonprofit organization that improve and protect the health of the population by advocating the quality and performance of state, local, and public health departments.
17. Social Security Act of 1935: It provides the welfare program based on based on the collection of taxes from working Americans to contribute a percentage of their wages from which they receive cash benefits after retirement.
18. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR): it is an agency that provide, prepare, and respond to the adverse health effects of public health emergencies and disasters under the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act.
19. U.S. Surgeon General: It is a leader of the U.S Public Health Service Corps that act as a spokesperson on matters of pubic health issues in the government of the U.S