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OASDI: Old Age and Survivors Disability AKA Social Security. To receive services, must be employed for a period of time and contribute to the social security tax.
SSI: Supplemmental Security Income. For the aged, blind, or disabled with limited income and resources.
TANF: Temporary Asssitance to Needy Families. Eligible under state discretion, 5-year limit, work requirements, born citizen. |
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Medicare: healthcare for people above 65 or the disabled. Attached to OASDI (Social Security) must pay into it through taxes.
Medicaid: Healthcare for people in poverty. Public Assistance attached to SSI and TANF. |
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| 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act |
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| Passed to cut costs and prevent dependancy and increase employment. Funded with a fixed grant, grants more state controls, has a work requirement, more limitations, 5-year limit |
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| increased underclass, more children in poverty, and more people without health insurance |
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| 3 conditions that make it less likely that a child will be poor |
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| 1) endowed with native intelligence above the normal range 2)parents are married and love you and each other 3) at least one parent has a marketable job skill |
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Federal Poverty Income Limit: The amount of money people need to satisfy their needs.
For a family of 4: In 2007, $20,650. In 2009, $22,050. Amount doesn't differ based on whether the family has more adults or children. |
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| People under FPIL in the US |
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| Poverty rates for white, African American, Latino, and Native Americans |
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10% White
24% Black
22% Latino |
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| Factors leading to an increase in the homeless populations |
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-shortage of affordable housing
-increase in poverty |
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| Homeless population estimated to have some form of mental illness |
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| emotional problems and substance abuse |
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| APA's DSM-IV TR (Text Revision) |
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American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Axes IV rates the severity of psychological stressors. helps label conditions to obtain insurance reimbursements. |
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| Basis to make mental health diagnosis according to the DMS |
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| psychological, biological, and social aspects of an individuals functioning |
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| What is the most common mental health problem? |
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| Advantages of the agreement that alcoholism is a disease |
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-acceptance by support system enabling them to help with intervention
-insurance coverage for treatments |
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| The leading cause of death for people age 15-24 |
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| Alcohol-related car accidents |
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| Other social problems related to substance abuse |
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| lost productivity, public health problems, accidents, property loss, physical/emotional injury, child abuse/neglect, domestic violence, homicide...etc. |
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| The most widely-abused substance |
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| Types of substance treatment |
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| Detox, hospitalization, impatient treatment 30-60 days, partial hospitalization, outpatient programs, AA/NA, family systems, cognitive behavioral |
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| "deinstitutionalization" - meaning, reasons, and outcomes |
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| keeping people from being placed in hospitals whenever possible. reasons: replace custodial care with therapeutic care so people can maintain freedom to self determine, keep their dignity and integrity and continue to get treatment. Cost effective, increase outpatient services, decrease numbers in mental institutions...however "ghettoization" of mentally ill and their difficulty to adjust to the community is an outcome. |
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| mental health conditions strongly associated with suicide |
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| depression, poor health/prognosis, substance abuse, separation (isolation) |
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| Percent of people who commit suicide and also have mental or substance abuse disorders |
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| Gender/race/age with highest rate of suicide |
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| "managed care" - meaning and outcomes |
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| health care delivery with limits in use and costs of service. outcomes - limits in choices, reduction in costs |
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| three primary causes of death in the US |
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| 1) Cardiovascular disease 2) Cancer 3) Stroke |
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| relationship between financial status and physical health status |
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| education and lifestyle choices of people with lower financial status correlated with lower health. |
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| Where does the US spend more on prevention or on treatment in health care? |
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| treatment. however,, preventive care is less expensive and has a positive outcome on health status |
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| what is a living will/ advanced directive? |
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| written statements made in advance of life-threatening circumstances about how and what medical decisions should be made. people should complete one to communicate wishes about when they are unable to speak for yourself. |
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| factors contributing to rapidly-increasing costs of health care in the US |
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rising costs and advancing technology.
the elderly in nursing homes and medicaid. |
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| how many people in the US lack any form of health insurance |
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| 40-50 million Americans or 17% of the population |
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| ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act |
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| passed to reduce the stigma towards individuals with disabilities, remove barriers, prevent and outlaw discrimination - passed in 1986 |
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| Indicators of Child Well-being |
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| nurturing relationship with caregiver, discipline, support system, birth weight, infant mortality rate, child death rate, numbers in school and work, single parent families, poverty level |
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| Negative effects of Divorce |
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| financial problems, loss, failure, fear, anxiety, loneliness, lack of energy...children - need to express feelings, fear of abandonment, child's coping mirrors parents |
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| Are children raised in a household with gay or lesbian parents more likely to be gay or lesbian that children raised in a household with heterosexual parents? |
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| 4 kinds of child maltreatment |
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physical abuse, sexual abuse, child neglect, psychological maltreatment
neglect accounts for more than half of reports
psychological maltreatment is actually most common but hardest to define and collect data on |
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| Factors increasing risk of child maltreatment |
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| child with low socioeconomic status (poverty), less resources, parent was abused, age of parent/child, family composition, child-rearing approaches, domestic violence in home, separation, substance abuse, physical, mental, emotional impairment of child/parent |
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| Teen pregnancy trends and outcomes |
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most teen moms drop out of school and don't marry, ten times more likely to be poor, little support form fathers, limited emotional/financial resources.
13% decline of teen pregnancies over the years
problems: low birth weights, premies, health problems, poverty |
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| a living environment for an individual that maintains the greatest degree of freedom, self-determination, autonomy, dignity, and integrity for the individual often while they're still in treatment or receiving services. Ex. you have a stroke and receive care from home instead of in the hospital. |
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| "developmental disabilities" |
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| manifested before age 22, continues indefinitely, the person needs a combination of services |
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