Continuity of Care Means

question 55

Multiple Choice

Continuity of care means

• A) an aggregate of activities designed to ensure adequate quality, especially in manufactured products or in the service industries.
• B) a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts.
• C) medical attention that continues smoothly from one provider to another so that the patient receives the most benefit.
• D) granted or endowed with a particular authority.

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Definitions:

Social Mobility

The ability for individuals or families to move up or down the socioeconomic ladder within a society.

Metacontrast Principle

A phenomenon in social identity and group behavior, where contrast between in-group and out-group members is maximized in the perceivers' mind.

Extended Contact Effect

The reduction of prejudice through indirect relationships, wherein knowing a member of an in-group has a friends in an out-group can lead to more positive attitudes towards that out-group.

Ingroup Favouritism

Behaviour that favours one’s own group over other groups.