Medical Services in Preindustrial America
The forerunner of today’s inpatient psychiatric facilities.
What is an asylum?
The late 19th century.
When did the postindustrial period begin?
Health care information and services offered over the Internet by professionals and nonprofessionals alike
What is E-health?
The first broad-coverage health insurance in the United States that emerged
What is worker's compensation?
They evaluate a patient’s health condition, diagnose abnormalities, and prescribe treatment
What do physicians do?
An institution where people who contracted a contagious disease were isolated.
What is a pesthouse?
An association that pushed the medical profession and in protects the interests of physicians.
What is the American Medical Association?
Provides health care at a distance, such as real-time transmission of video examinations and telesurgery.
What is telemedicine?
Any large-scale government-sponsored expansion of health insurance.
What is socialized medicine?
They diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth.
What does a dentist do?
Outpatient clinics that provide free care to those who could not afford to pay.
What are dispensaries?
An inspection of medical schools that found widespread inconsistencies in medical education.
What is the Flexner Report?
Various forms of cross-border economic activities
What is globalization?
An act where federal grants were given to the states so they could extend health services under their welfare programs to low-income elderly persons
What is the Medical Assistance Act?
They are involved in inpatient medicine, and their roles parallel those of primary care physicians in an outpatient setting, in that they manage the care of hospitalized patients.
What does a hospitalist do?
From the middle of the 18th century until the latter part of the 19th century.
How long did the preindustrial era last?
It pushed for state laws that required graduation from a medical school accredited by the AMA as the basis for a license to practice medicine.
What is the Council on Medical Education?
Obtained health care services at lower prices and used the strength granted by their consolidation to implement various types of controls to reduce the rising costs of health care.
What did managed care organizations help do?
A program that confines eligibility to people below a predetermined income level.
What is a means-tested program?
Medicine that emphasizes the musculoskeletal system, and diet and the environment as factors that might influence natural resistance.
What is osteopathic medicine?
Attending courses for 3 to 4 months during the first year, then repeating the same coursework during the second year.
What did a 2-year MD degree require?
The center for advanced technology used in medical diagnosis and treatment, and for the training of various types of health care personnel.
What is a hospital?
They provide health care services, including hospital inpatient care, surgical services in both inpatient and outpatient settings, primary care and multispecialty outpatient services, home health care, long-term care, and specialized rehabilitation services.
What are integrated delivery systems?
He created a blueprint for modern health insurance, which eventually became a model for Blue Cross plans.
Who was Justin F. Kimball?
Medicine that views medical treatment as an active intervention to produce a counteracting reaction in an attempt to neutralize the effects of disease.
What is allopathic medicine?