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

• 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

• Paying for Medical Care

  • As noted in the previous section, disparities in health care are often related to an individual's or a group's ability to pay for health care.
  • For example, while a public-funded system (see below) might decide to pay for a pap smear only once every five years if the patient was not positive for the human papilloma virus based on cost efficiency, in a private system a consumer can choose to be screened more often and enjoy the luxury of greater peace of mind and marginally reduced risk.
  • An alternative to private health insurance and the free-market approach to health care is publicly funded health care.
  • Publicly funded health care facilitates the creation of uniform standards of care.
  • Health care workers' pay is often not related to quality or speed of care.

• Health Disparities

  • There are also substantial differences in health based on social class or socioeconomic status, which have also been linked to neighborhood concentration and environmental effects.
  • Lack of a regular source of care.
  • There are a number of ways in which health disparities play out based on different systems of stratification.
  • As noted above, researchers also find health disparities based on gender and sexual stratification.
  • Health disparities based on race also exist.

• Aging

  • For example, most societies have a generally accepted age of retirement (based on both societal norms as well as a country's tax laws and pension rules) after which point an individual ceases to engage in employment.
  • The rest of society typically assumes some level of responsibility in ensuring that the elderly are cared for.
  • The various forms that elderly care services can take include assisted living, adult day care, long-term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and in-home care.
  • The different institutions can further be classified as medical (skilled) care and non-medical (social) care.
  • While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is supposed to address many issues confronting the healthcare sector today, the rising cost of healthcare remains a national problem, as patients are paying more in order to receive the same care as before.

• State-Centered Theories

  • According to state-centered theories of inequality, the government should regulate the distribution of resources to protect workers.
  • State-centered theories assert that intentional state policies must be aimed at equitably distributing resources and opportunities.
  • Socialism is an economic and political system in which the state owns the majority industry, but resources are allocated based on a combination of natural rights and individual achievements.
  • Accounting would be based on physical quantities, a common physical magnitude, or a direct measure of labour-time.
  • Distribution of output would be based on the principle of individual contribution.