Evolution of health care delivery
Era where healthcare was delivered in a free market and people relied on family members, neighbors, and publications for domestic remedies
What is the preindustrial era?
What is workers compensation?
A healthcare provider that evaluates a patient heath condition and prescribes a treatment.
What is a physician?
Nurses who have education and clinical experience beyond that required of an RN.
What is an advanced practiced nurse?
Care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values.
What is patient centered care?
Referred to as a lunatic asylum, used to accommodate mental health patients.
What is an Asylum?
Health insurance that covered the elderly and the poor regardless of their incomes.
What is Medicare and Medicaid?
Medical education in a specific specialty tat involves paid on the job training.
What is a residency?
Another term for licensed practical nurses.
What are licensed vocational nurses?
The product of multiple determinants of health, including medical care, public health, genetics, behaviors, social factors, and environmental factors.
What is population health?
Era that had sufficient growth and development from new scientific discoveries and reforms in medical education.
What is the postindustrial era?
Systems that provide a full array of health care services including both inpatient and outpatient settings.
What are Integrated delivery systems?
Physicians that are trained in family medicine/general practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics.
What is a generalist?
Healthcare workers that require supervision from therapists or technologists to ensure care plan evaluation in the treatment process.
What are technicians and assistants?
Biostatistics, epidemiology, health services administration, health education/behavioral science and environmental health
What are the five core disciplines in public health?
Relied on specialized skills of paid professionals and led to concentration on medical practices in cities and towns.
What is urbanization?
Attempts to introduce national health insurance with any large scale government sponsor.
What is socialized medicine?
Medicine that emphasizes the musculoskeletal system and refers to diet and the environment.
What is osteopathic medicine?
Someone who help patients and families cope with problems from long-term illness, injury and rehabilitation, and other issues.
What is a social worker?
Major changes through government policy to expand health insurance to the uninsured.
What is health care reform?
Period in the evolution of the U.S. medical delivery system that is characterized by the domination of corporations rather than individuals.
What is the corporate era?
A plan designed to pay for physicians fee's by endorsing hospital insurance.
What is the blue shield plan?
When physicians concentrate in metropolitan and suburban areas rather than in rural and inner city areas.
What is geographic maldistribution?
Help people improve their ability to perform tasks in their daily living and work environments.
What is an occupational therapist ?
A reform law that increases health insurance coverage.
What is the affordable care act?