PUBHLTH 122 Study Guide - Final Guide: Health Insurance Marketplace, Health Savings Account, Risk Pool

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PUBHLTH 122
• Professor: Dana Mukamel

Document Summary

How trump care is different than the aca. Health savings accounts: tax benefit; put money in there to use for health expenses, helps you in the long run. Health insurance does not make you healthier, it is just to protect against financial loss. Inflation: a change in price level, not in product, rate of increase of nhe has increased more than the rate of inflation. Natural experiments: observational studies retrospective, observational studies are based on data that was not collected for the study (claims data) Therefore must control statistically for differences between groups since you cannot rely on randomization to assume that the groups are the same. Efficacy and effectiveness studies: efficacy studies. Determine whether an intervention produces the expected result under ideal circumstances. Applying an intervention to an ideal group: effectiveness studies. Measure the degree of beneficial effect under real world clinical settings. Effects of the intervention in presence of other illnesses.