Vocab
The exchange of information, production of goods, and services across borders and world economies.
What is globalization?
Organization that ensures the preservation of private health insurance and opposes National Health insurance.
What is American Medical Association (AMA)?
A physician who treats general diseases of the heart, blood, kidneys, joints, digestive, respiratory, and vascular systems of adolescent, adult, and elderly patients.
What is internal medicine?
A person trained in the medical field who has completed a 4-year MD/DO program and can either specialize or generalize.
What is a physician?
The process of people moving from rural to urban areas, which changes the focus of healthcare access.
What is urbanization?
Philosophy of medicine that views medical treatment as active intervention to counteract the effects of disease through medical and surgical procedures that produce effects opposite those of the disease.
What is allopathic medicine?
A network of organizations that provides or arranges to provide a coordinated set of services to a population and is held clinically and fiscally accountable for all health outcomes.
What is Integrated delivery system (IDS)?
A physician who treats disorders related to the skin, hair, nails, and mucous membranes.
What is dermatology?
A person who has received a BSN and is medically trained under the nursing school model.
What is a nurse?
Phase of healthcare during the mid-18th century to the 19th cenutry in which healthcare was delivered in a free market and not grounded in science.
What is the preindustrial era?
What is osteopathic medicine?
The first broad-based health insurance in the U.S.
What is the Workers' Compensation?
A physician who focuses on the nerves and nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and blood vessels.
What is neurology?
A person who has undergone a master's program and works under the supervision of a physician while still having autonomy.
What is a physician assistant?
Phase of healthcare in the 19th century in which urbanization led to the growth of the medical profession, scientific discoveries, and reform.
What is the postindustrial era?
Healthcare information and services offered over the Internet by healthcare professionals and nonprofessionals.
What is E-health?
A hospital insurance plan that originated with Justin Kimball's plan for teachers at Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
What is Blue Cross?
A physician who cares for the female reproductive system and associated disorders along with women's health.
What is OB/GYN (Obstetrics and gynecology)?
A physician who practices in family medicine, internal medicine, or pediatrics.
What is a generalist?
What is the United States?
A place built by state governments specifically for patients with untreatable, chronic medical illnesses.
What is asylum?
What the United States healthcare delivery system is referred to as.
What is corporation?
A physician who is trained to diagnose illnesses through x-rays, radioactive substances, ultrasounds, and the body's natural magnetism.
What is diagnostic radiology?
A physician who specializes in specific health care fields, such as cardiology, urology, or dermatology.
Person who instituted a blueprint for modern health insurance in 1929.
What is Justin Kimball?