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Basic Health Concepts

Basic Health Concepts. Wholistic Health Health Privileges vs. Rights. Wholistic Model of Health. Physical Emotional/Psychological Cognitive/Intellectual Social Spiritual Environmental. Health: Privilege or Right?. What did people think 100 years ago? Types of illnesses

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Basic Health Concepts

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  1. Basic Health Concepts Wholistic Health Health Privileges vs. Rights

  2. Wholistic Model of Health • Physical • Emotional/Psychological • Cognitive/Intellectual • Social • Spiritual • Environmental

  3. Health: Privilege or Right? • What did people think 100 years ago? • Types of illnesses • Causes of death • Treatments available • Beliefs about life and death • Was good health something they took for granted? Something they felt entitled to?

  4. Health: Privilege or Right? • How do we view these issues today? • What types of illnesses do we have now? • Are there treatments available for the illnesses we experience? • Treatment abuses • Top 10 causes of death in the U.S. today? • How do we view death today?

  5. Health: Privilege or Right? • Health insurance • What does it do? • How do we get it? • How has it affected our understanding of the cost(s) of health care?

  6. Health: Privilege or Right? • Health Care Rationing • Definition: limiting access to certain types of care because there is not enough of it for everyone to have it. • Should we do this? What are the pro’s and con’s?

  7. Health: Privilege or Right? • Do we already ration health care in some ways? • Access to health insurance: how do we get it? Does everyone have it? Does everyone have equally good insurance? • Medicare and Medicaid and other government-funded programs • Organ donation • Prescription coverage • Vision/dental insurance

  8. Health: Privilege or Right? • How does access to insurance affect medical treatment availability? • Types of treatment available • How much it costs? • Timing of treatment (when? how often?) • Where you have to go to get treatment

  9. Journal Prompt • What responsibilities are you willing to take on in order to have good health?

  10. Journal Prompt (2) • Other countries, such as Canada and Ireland, have universal health care coverage for all their citizens. Should the U.S. provide universal health care as a right of citizenship, or is health care a privilege, not a right?

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