Pre-existing Conditions

(noun)

A pre-existing condition is a risk with extant causes that is not readily compensated by standard, affordable insurance premiums.

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Examples of Pre-existing Conditions in the following topics:

  • Current Issues in Health Care

    • Pre-existing Conditions: Individuals with pre-existing conditions are much more likely to be expensive clients, and thus are not profitable to insure.
    • Changing Insurance Rates: As a complement to the analysis above, insurance agencies also cannot alter rates based on pre-existing conditions or gender.
  • Culture and Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia

    • Zoroastrianism existed in the east and south, and there is evidence of Manichaeism or possibly Mazdakism being practiced in Mecca.
    • The chief god in pre-Islamic Arabia was Hubal, the Syrian god of the moon.
    • A thriving community of Jewish tribes existed in pre-Islamic Arabia and included both sedentary and nomadic communities.
    • In at least one case, it is known that an Arab tribe agreed to adopt Judaism as a condition for settling in a town dominated by Jewish inhabitants.
    • Pre-Islamic and post-Islamic music was important for poetry and oral traditions.
  • Congenital Defects

    • Congenital disorders, conditions existing at birth that often develop during gestation, are generically grouped regardless of cause.
    • A congenital disorder, or congenital disease, is a condition existing at birth and often before birth, or that develops during the first month of life (neonatal disease) regardless of causation.
    • The outcome of the disorder will depend on complex interactions between the pre-natal deficit and the post-natal environment.
    • Much of the language used for describing congenital conditions predates genomic mapping, and structural conditions are often considered separately from other congenital conditions.
    • It is now known that many metabolic conditions may have subtle structural expression and structural conditions often have genetic links.
  • Piaget

    • Piaget believed that reality is a dynamic system of continuous change and as such, it is defined in reference to the two conditions that define dynamic systems.
    • States refer to the conditions or the appearances in which things or persons can be found between transformations.
    • The pre-operational stage is the second stage of cognitive development.
    • It is the process of taking one's environment and new information and fitting it into pre-existing cognitive schemas.
    • Accommodation, unlike assimilation, is the process of taking one's environment and new information and altering one's pre-existing schemas in order to fit in the new information.
  • The Nomadic Tribes of Arabia

    • Pre-Islamic Arabia refers to the Arabian Peninsula prior to the rise of Islam in the 630s.
    • Pre-Islamic religion in Arabia consisted of indigenous polytheistic beliefs, Ancient Arabian Christianity, Nestorian Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism.
    • The difficult living conditions in the Arabian Peninsula created a heavy emphasis on family cooperation, further strengthening the clan system.
    • The Bedouin tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia were nomadic-pastoralists.
    • Family groups called clans formed larger tribal units, which reinforced family cooperation in the difficulty living conditions on the Arabian peninsula and protected its members against other tribes.
  • Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension

    • The fetus is at increased risk for a variety of life-threatening conditions, including pulmonary hypoplasia (immature lungs).
    • Pre-eclampsia or preeclampsia is a medical condition in which hypertension arises in pregnancy (gestational hypertension) in association with significant amounts of protein in the urine.
    • Pre-eclampsia is a set of symptoms rather than any causative factor, and there are many different causes of the condition.
    • Both conditions usually occur during the later stages of pregnancy, or sometimes after childbirth.
    • Furthermore, there is a genetic component; patients whose mothers or sisters had the condition are at higher risk.
  • Preindustrial Societies: The Birth of Inequality

    • Pre-industrial typically have predominantly agricultural economies and limited production, division of labor, and class variation.
    • Medieval Europe was a pre-industrial feudal society.
    • Pre-industrial societies are societies that existed before the Industrial Revolution, which took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
    • Two specific forms of pre-industrial society are hunter-gatherer societies and feudal societies.
    • Discuss the different types of societies and economies that existed during the pre-Industrial age
  • Women in Pre-Islamic Arabia

    • Women had almost no legal status under tribal law in pre-Islamic Arabia.
    • Under the customary tribal law existing in Arabia at the advent of Islam, as a general rule women had virtually no legal status.
    • The practice of women covering themselves with veils was also known during pre-Islamic times.
    • Marriage by capture, or "Ba'al," was also a common pre-Islamic practice.
    • Assess the role and rights of women in Islamic and pre-Islamic Arabia
  • Schemata

    • As cognitive development proceeds, new schemata are developed, and existing schemata are more efficiently organized to better adapt to the environment.
    • The process of assimilation involves attempts to organize existing schemata for better understanding events in the external world, whereas accommodation involves changing pre-existing schemata to adapt to a new situation.
  • Perception

    • They do so because of their attitudes, beliefs, usage preferences and habits, conditioning, etc."
    • This fact has repercussions within the field of advertising research because any post-advertising analysis that examines the differences in attitudes or buying behavior among those aware versus those unaware of advertising is flawed unless pre-existing differences are controlled for.
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