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  2. Informal coercion - Wikipedia

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    [5]: 5 Healthcare workers felt informal coercion was more acceptable in cases of mania or acute psychosis. [ 5 ] : 7 There was a degree of cognitive dissonance surrounding the practice, healthcare workers described behaviour matching formal definitions of informal coercion, but were reluctant to label their behaviour as coercive.

  3. Labor induction - Wikipedia

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    Labor induction is the procedure where a medical professional starts the process of labor (giving birth) instead of letting it start on its own.Labor may be induced (started) if the health of the mother or the baby is at risk.

  4. Biomedical model - Wikipedia

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    narrow definition of health: that a state of health is always the absence of a definable illness; individualistic: that sources of ill health are always in the individual, and not the environment which health occurs; treatment versus prevention: that the focus of health is on diagnosis and treatment of illness, not prevention

  5. Defensive medicine - Wikipedia

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    Defensive medicine takes two main forms: assurance behavior and avoidance behavior.Assurance behavior involves the charging of additional, unnecessary services to a) reduce adverse outcomes, b) deter patients from filing medical malpractice claims, or c) preempt any future legal action by documenting that the practitioner is practicing according to the standard of care.

  6. Integrated delivery system - Wikipedia

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    An integrated delivery system (IDS), also known as integrated delivery network (IDN), is a health system with a goal of logical integration of the delivery (provision) of health care as opposed to a fragmented system or a disorganized lack of system.

  7. Integrated care - Wikipedia

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    Integrated care may be seen as a response to the fragmented delivery of health and social services being an acknowledged problem in many health systems. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This model of care is working towards moving away from a siloed and referral -based format of care to a team-based model.

  8. Inducement - Wikipedia

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    Inducement prize contest, a competition to reward a feat, usually of engineering Inducement rule , a copyright test used in United States courts Induce (disambiguation)

  9. Direct primary care - Wikipedia

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    Affordable Health Care for America (H.R. 3962) America's Affordable Health Choices (H.R. 3200) Baucus Health Bill (S. 1796) Proposed. American Health Care Act (2017) Medicare for All Act (2021, H.R. 1976) Healthy Americans Act (2007, 2009) Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) Latest enacted. Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education ...