2016 Utah Code
Title 26 - Utah Health Code
Chapter 10b - Access to Health Care
Section 101 - Definitions.

Effective 5/13/2014
26-10b-101. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:

• (1) "Committee" means the Primary Care Grant Committee created in Section 26-1-7 and described in Section 26-10b-106.

• (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) "Executive director" means the executive director of the department.

• (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) "Primary care grant" means a grant awarded by the department under Subsection 26-10b-102(1).

• (9)
  • (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.

• (10) "Program" means the primary care grant program created under this chapter.

Amended by Chapter 384, 2014 General Session