Exam 7: Chronic Illness: Issues and Interventions

____________________ of dependent individuals in the community rely on informal caregivers such as family.

The number-one "killer" in America is ____________________.

One year lost of "healthy" life is called one ________________________________.

The ___________________ model uses the principles of chronic care, disease management, self-management, case management, lifestyle modification, transitional care, caregiver education and support, and geriatric evaluation and management.

Modifiable health risk behaviors that are responsible for much of the illness, suffering, and early death are all of the following except _____.

Which of the following is not an example of a psychosocial determinant of health?

During the initial crisis phase of a chronic disease, a social worker will want to explore the families' belief about the cause of an illness separately from their beliefs about _______________.

An estimated 20% of the school-age population experiences a chronic mental illness or disabling condition.

Chronic diseases are only the leading causes of death in countries with the lowest levels of income.

The unfavorable consequences of diabetes in the African American and Hispanic community do not seem to be due to _______________________________________.

The manner in which a chronic illness impacts a family system is dependent in part on the convergence of the roles the family member with the illness fulfills in the family and the extent to which treatment modalities and illness symptoms, illness course, and related functional limitations affect an individual's ability to fulfill his or her existing roles.

The cultivation hypothesis predicts people ____________________________ men's likelihood of dying from prostate cancer and women's chance of dying from breast cancer.

While the exact cause of Type 1 diabetes is unknown, the risk factors include all of the following except _____.

Kathy works in a primary care office. Her patient Andrew has not been taking his medicine to control his high blood pressure. The physician in the office expresses frustration with Andrew. He states, "It's only one pill a day. How hard can it be to take one pill a day? Kathy, please meet with the patient and talk some sense into him." Kathy meets with Andrew and acknowledges that sometimes it is hard to do something that seems so simple to someone else. Kathy asks Andrew what most days are like for him. Andrew tells Kathy that he has been working overtime and has been alternating between day and night shifts. He used to take his medicine every morning when he got up, but with his new schedule, he has not been getting up and going to bed at the same times. Kathy worked with Andrew to find something that ,despite his upside down schedule, he does every day. Andrew noted he has a cup of coffee every morning, so he does not get a headache. Andrew realized this could be his daily cue to take his medication. Kathy said she would check back in with Andrew next week to see if this new strategy for remembering to take his medicine was working. Kathy is practicing from what perspective?

Concern about chronic disease has prompted a paradigm shift from regarding individuals as consumers of health care to _________________________________.

The leading cause of death for women of most racial/ethnic groups in the United States is ____________________________.

___________________________ is the period of life spent with chronic disease or loss of functional mobility.

The most common type of cancer is breast cancer.

Rates of adherence to medical regiments in chronic illness are approximately 50%.

Racial and ethic groups continue to face disparities in the quality of healthcare in the United States. Lower quality of care or poor outcomes can stem from patient-level factors, provider-level factors, health-system factors, and social and political factors. Describe one way each of these factors impacts the quality of care for ethnic and racial minorities.