Preindustrial America
Commonly referred to as the "father of American psychiatry."
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
The standards of this hospital became the model of medical education in other leading institutions across the country.
What is Johns Hopkins?
These organizations corporatized the delivery of health care in the United States while also making the health care complex.
What are MCOs (emergent managed care organizations) and IDSs (integrated delivery systems)?
A graduate medical education in a specialty that takes the form of paid on-the-job training.
What is a residency?
Rather than on the individual, the main focus is the whole community and the overall health.
What are public health professionals?
Places that provided free care to people who could not afford to pay for medical care.
What are dispensaries?
This health insurance plan covers people with a certain low income.
What is Medicaid?
A network of organizations that provides or arranges to provide a coordinated continuum of services to a defined population and is willing to be held clinically and fiscally accountable for the outcomes and health status of the population serviced.
What is an integrated delivery system?
Physicians in non-primary care specialties dealing with particular diseases or organ systems.
What are specialists?
The largest group of health care professionals.
The forerunner of today's inpatient psychiatric facilities.
What are asylums?
This health insurance covers elderly people, nonelderly disabled people on Social Security, and people with end-stage renal disease.
Health care information and services offered over the Internet by professionals and nonprofessionals alike.
What is E-health?
In the United States, physicians trained in family medicine/general practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics.
What are primary care physicians or generalists?
Biostatistics, epidemiology, health services administration, health education/behavioral science, and environmental health are part of this education.
What are the five core disciplines of public health education?
A place where people with contagious diseases had to quarantine in.
What are pesthouses?
This health insurance plan covers lost wages due to job-related injuries and disease.
What is a worker's compensation?
Use of telecommunications technology that enables physicians to conduct two-way, interactive video consultations or transmit digital images, such as x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging results, to other sites.
What is a telemedicine?
A practice in which the pharmacist dispenses drugs, informs patients on the proper use of drugs and their potential misuse, and when asked, assists prescribers in making appropriate drug choices.
What is pharmaceutical care?
They play an important role in connecting public and primary care to their communities.
What are community health workers?
The forerunner of today's hospitals, provided some basic nursing care and was used for shelter.
What are almhouses (poorhouses)?
Concerted activities of physicians, mainly to protect their own interests, through such associations as the American Medical Association.
What is an organized medicine?
Various forms of cross- border economic activities driven by global exchange of information, production of goods and services more economically in developing countries, and increased interdependence of mature and emerging world economies.
What is globalization?
A professional who is educated and trained in a specialized field of health care and has responsibility for the delivery of services associated with medical care.
What is an allied health professional?
A type of care that focuses the values of patients in all clinical decisions.
What is a patient-centered care?