Center-based care

Examples of Center-based care in the following topics:

• Child Care

  • Child care involves caring for and supervising a child or children, usually from infancy to age thirteen.
  • The majority of child care institutions that are available require that child care providers have extensive training in first aid and are CPR certified.
  • The two main types of child care options are center-based care and home-based care.
  • In some states, teaching in a day care center requires an Associates Degree in child development.
  • Analyze the different types of child care in the United States, from parental care to center-based care

• Physicians, Nurses, and Patients

  • Nursing Science is a field of knowledge based on the contributions of nursing scientists through peer-reviewed scholarly journals and evidenced-based practice.
  • Nurses care for individuals of all ages and cultural backgrounds, who are healthy and ill, in a holistic manner based on the individual's physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs.
  • A patient is any recipient of health care services.
  • Patients' satisfaction with an encounter with health care service is mainly dependent on the duration and efficiency of care, and how empathetic and communicable the health care providers are.
  • A local doctor performs a cataract surgery on a patient at Zamboanga Medical Center during the U.S.

• The "Sandwich Generation" and Elder Care

  • According to the Pew Research Center, just over 1 of every 8 Americans aged 40 to 60 is both raising a child and caring for a parent, in addition to between 7 to 10 million adults caring for their aging parents from a long distance.
  • This broad term encompasses such services as assisted living, adult day care, long-term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and in-home care.
  • This type of care allows caregivers the opportunity to go on vacation or a business trip and know that their elder has good quality temporary care.
  • Another unique type of care cropping in U.S. hospitals is called acute care of elder units, or ACE units, which provide "a homelike setting" within a medical center specifically for the elderly.
  • According to the Pew Research Center, just over 1 of every 8 Americans aged 40 to 60 is both raising a child and caring for a parent, in addition to between 7 to 10 million adults caring for their aging parents from a long distance.

• Health Insurance

  • In 2001, the United States government spent $4,887 per person on health care.
  • Private insurance, based on free market principles, refers to health insurance provided by a non-governmental organization, usually a privately owned or publicly traded corporation.
  • Modern medicine approaches health care from two angles.
  • This second method typically focuses on preventative care.
  • A new report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published in the magazine Health Affairs, estimates that spending on health care grew to 17.3 percent of the U.S. economy – a record and the largest one-year jump since 1960.

• Race and Ethnicity

  • Racial disparities in health care often center around socioeconomic status, diet, and education.
  • Health disparities refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial and ethnic groups.
  • Many explanations for such differences have been argued, including socioeconomic factors, lifestyle behaviors, social environment, and access to preventive health-care services among other environmental differences.
  • Race-based medicine is the term for medicines that are targeted at specific ethnic clusters that are shown to have a propensity for a certain disorder.
  • Discuss the role of race in terms of access to and quality of health care, especially for minorities

• Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

  • Careful planning during the lesson design process will help to ensure quality instruction and valuable student experiences in the classroom.
  • Other instructional models, such as project-based and collaborative learning may be easily integrated into lessons with Multiple Intelligences.
  • Cunningham uses aspects of resource-based learning, an instructional model that places the ultimate responsibility of choosing resources on the student.
  • In a student-centered lesson, the instructor may incorporate aspects of project-based learning, collaborative learning, or other inquiry-based models.
  • The types of activities and assignments that support student-centered lessons can be easily designed in concert with many of the inquiry-based models discussed in the text of this book.

• Alternatives to Traditional Health Care

  • They feel that healthcare practices should be classified based solely on scientific evidence.
  • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has developed one of the most widely used classification systems for the branches of complementary and alternative medicine.
  • Biology-based practices use substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods, vitamins, and other natural substances.
  • It may include preventive medicine and patient-centered medicine.
  • Break down the various types of alternative medicine and how they fit into the health care system

• Defining Health, Health Care, and Medical Care

  • Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in health care services.
  • Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in medical care and health care services and issues.
  • Health care is a significant concern for patients, insurance companies, governments, businesses, health care providers, researchers, and non-profits.
  • Health (Box B): Health metrics for health attributes from a value of life and overall utility-based perspective.
  • Demand for Health Care (Box C): The overall health care demand, which is a complex array of inputs that can be summarized as health care seeking behaviors, and what factors influence them (i.e. externalities, price, time, perspectives, etc.).

• Current Issues in Health Care

  • Current issues in the U.S. health care system largely revolve around the significant policy changes resulting from the Affordable Care Act.
  • Current issues in the U.S. health care system largely revolve around the significant policy changes imposed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare), which attempts to provide health insurance coverage for all citizens.
  • The costs alone, on a per capita basis, underline the way in which the U.S. system has struggled to meet international standards in providing affordable care. illustrates the costs incurred by each individual in the system based on a country to country comparison.
  • Changing Insurance Rates: As a complement to the analysis above, insurance agencies also cannot alter rates based on pre-existing conditions or gender.
  • This chart illustrates the costs incurred by each individual in the system based on a country to country comparison.

• Divided Government

  • Discontent over Democratic President Obama's Affordable Care Act helped the Republicans capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.
  • It also helped spawn the Tea Party, a conservative movement that emerged from the right wing of the Republican Party and pulled the traditional conservative base further to the right.
  • The deadlock centered on the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014, which was passed by the House of Representatives on September 20, 2013.
  • The Senate stripped the bill of the measures meant to delay the Affordable Care Act and passed it in revised form on September 27, 2013.
  • Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House, March 23, 2010