Question

1..Does Medicaid provide dental and vision care for adults? What impact does this have on that population and health outcomes?

2.The article Development of a Community Nurse-Managed Health center there are 3 goals listed in establishing the clinic. What are they?

3.How do you think low literacy impacts a person's ability to seek health care? What are the long range health problems that can develop without preventive health care?

4.In the video on government and health care there is some discussion about 3rd party purchases related to health care. What does this mean?

Answer 1

Q. No. 1. Answer :

Yes, medicaid provides dental and vision care for adults, it is depending upon state. It is different from one state to another state.

Dental and vision problems are more incidence among the population now a days, through medicaid benefits the people's may get emergency services for dental and vision.

So that the health care outcomes may good among the population through this Medicaid Services.

Q. No. 2. Answer :

Community nurse managed health center :

In these the nurses can provide the primary health care which is needed by clients, the care is medically and psychologically and physically.

The nurses may educate the clients regarding their health care management.

In these all types of nursing care provided by the primary health nurses in nursing care centers.

Goals are :

* To reduce the health disparities like morbidity and mortality rates.

* Health promotion and disease prevention.

* providing services to rural and urban area people and who are vulnerable and uninsured and underinsured patients.

Q. No. 3. Answer :

Low literacy leads to less ability to seek health care because,

* they don't have sufficient knowledge regarding risk factors.

* due to insufficiency of money they can't able to maintain their healthly diet and lifestyles.

* unhygienic conditions and practices due to low literacy and lack of education.

* due to low literacy they may have some of superstitious believes regarding heath care, so that they may not follow all the evidenced practices.

* they may follow some of mantras ect.

* so like this low literacy impact the personal ability to seek health care.

Long range of health problems with out preventative health care :

* cardiovascular diseases,

* diabetes mellitus,

* different type of cancers,

* liver disease,

* kidney diseases ect.

Q. No. 4. Answer :

Third party purchase related to health care means insurance policies.