Basic Health Concepts Wholistic Health Privileges vs Rights

Basic Health Concepts Wholistic Health Privileges vs. Rights

Wholistic Model of Health • • • Physical Emotional/Psychological Cognitive/Intellectual Social Spiritual Environmental

Health: Privilege or Right? • What did people think 100 years ago? • • • Types of illnesses Causes of death Treatments available Beliefs about life and death Was good health something they took for granted? Something they felt entitled to?

Health: Privilege or Right? • How do we view these issues today? • What types of illnesses do we have now? • • Are there treatments available for the illnesses we experience? Treatment abuses • Top 10 causes of death in the U. S. today? • How do we view death today?

Health: Privilege or Right? • Health insurance • • • What does it do? How do we get it? How has it affected our understanding of the cost(s) of health care?

Health: Privilege or Right? • Health Care Rationing • Definition: limiting access to certain types of care because there is not enough of it for everyone to have it. • Should we do this? What are the pro’s and con’s?

Health: Privilege or Right? • Do we already ration health care in some ways? • Access to health insurance: how do we get it? Does everyone have equally good insurance? • Medicare and Medicaid and other governmentfunded programs • Organ donation • Prescription coverage • Vision/dental insurance

Health: Privilege or Right? • How does access to insurance affect medical treatment availability? • Types of treatment available • How much it costs? • Timing of treatment (when? how often? ) • Where you have to go to get treatment

Journal Prompt • What responsibilities are you willing to take on in order to have good health?

Journal Prompt (2) • Other countries, such as Canada and Ireland, have universal health care coverage for all their citizens. Should the U. S. provide universal health care as a right of citizenship, or is health care a privilege, not a right?