Utah Code § 26B-4-301

Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session

Section 26B-4-301 - Definitions

As used in this part:

(1) "Committee" means the Primary Care Grant Committee described in Section 26B-1-410.

(2) "Community based organization":

(a) means a private entity; and

(b) includes for profit and not for profit entities.

(3) "Cultural competence" means a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or profession and enables that system, agency, or profession to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.

(4) "Emergency medical dispatch center" means a public safety answering point, as defined in Section 63H-7a-103, that is designated as an emergency medical dispatch center by the office.

(5) "Health literacy" means the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, process, and understand health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.

(6) "Institutional capacity" means the ability of a community based organization to implement public and private contracts.

(7) "Medically underserved population" means the population of an urban or rural area or a population group that the committee determines has a shortage of primary health care.

(8) "Office" means the Office of Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness within the department.

(9) "Pregnancy support services" means services that:

(a) encourage childbirth instead of voluntary termination of pregnancy; and

(b) assist pregnant women, or women who may become pregnant, to choose childbirth whether they intend to parent or select adoption for the child.

(10) "Primary care grant" means a grant awarded by the department under Subsection 26B-4-310(1).

(11)

(a) "Primary health care" means:

(i) basic and general health care services given when a person seeks assistance to screen for or to prevent illness and disease, or for simple and common illnesses and injuries; and

(ii) care given for the management of chronic diseases.

(b) "Primary health care" includes:

(i) services of physicians, nurses, physician's assistants, and dentists licensed to practice in this state under Title 58, Occupations and Professions;

(ii) diagnostic and radiologic services;

(iii) preventive health services including perinatal services, well-child services, and other services that seek to prevent disease or its consequences;

(iv) emergency medical services;

(v) preventive dental services; and

(vi) pharmaceutical services.

Utah Code § 26B-4-301

Amended by Chapter 261, 2024 General Session ,§ 2, eff. 5/1/2024.

Renumbered from § 26-10b-101 and amended by Chapter 307, 2023 General Session ,§ 101, eff. 5/3/2023.

Amended by Chapter 307, 2023 General Session ,§ 182, coordination clause.

Amended by Chapter 322, 2023 General Session ,§ 1, eff. 5/3/2023.

Amended by Chapter 255, 2022 General Session ,§ 21, eff. 7/1/2022.

Amended by Chapter 384, 2014 General Session ,§ 2, eff. 5/13/2014.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 340, 2010 General Session