chapter 1 vocabulary

5. actions taken to reduce the amount that is spent on a service or within an organization
7. gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health
11. emergency department services, observation services, outpatient surgery, lab tests or X-rays.
12. medication, physical rehabilitation, psychotherapyPandemic
14. tam approach to caring for older people and supporting family caregivers, including close friends
15. actions to reduce the amount of end-use energy consumption

1. the act of practicing healthy habits on a daily basis to attain better physical and mental health outcomes
2. physical and/or psychological approaches include tai chi, yoga, acupuncture, massage therapy,
3. acupuncture, dietary supplements, massage therapy, hypnosis, and meditation.
4. a disease outbreak that has spread across multiple countries and continents and usually impacts many people
6. group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss,Telemedicin
8. case-mix complexity system implemented to categorize patients with similar clinical diagnoses in order to better control hospital costs and determine payor reimbursement rates.
9. an approach to wellness that simultaneously addresses the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual components of health
10. a wide range of health care services that you can get in your home for an illness or injury
13. technology that utilizes biological systems, living organisms or parts of this to develop or create different products.