Health care providers
Vocab
Insurance
Workplace of healthcare providers
Most common medical specialties
100

The major providers of dental care.

What is a dentists?

100

An institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally ill. 

What is an asylum?
100
A nonprofit health insurance organiazation offering hospitilization and medical benefits to subscribers.

What is blue cross?

100

A building in which healthcare providers care for people who have committed a crime. 

What is a prison?

100

Branch of medicine that deals with diseases and abnormalities of the heart.

What is cardiology?

200

The main caregivers for sick and injured patients; largest group of health care providers.

What is a nurse?

200

Various forms of cross-border economic activities driven by global exchange of information, production of goods and services more economically in developing countries. 

What is globalization?

200
Became the primary vehicle for the delivery of health care services in the U.S.

What is private health insurance?

200

An institution providing medical and surgical treatment & nursing care for sick/injured people. 

What is a hospital?

200

Branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of skin disorders. 

What is dermatology?

300

Provide patients with mental health care.

What is a psychologists?

300
Out patient clinics that provided free care to those who couldn't afford it. 

What is dispensaries?

300

An act passed by US Congress in 2010 to expand and regulate the American healthcare system.

What is Obamacare?

300

Where outpatients are given medical treatment or advice. 

What is a clinic. 

300

Branch of medicine and surgery concerned with childbirth and the care of women giving birth.

What is obstetrics?

400

They provide care for patients with movement dysfunction.

What is a physical therapist?

400

Provided shelter to the homeless, the insane, the elderly, orphans, and the sick who had no family to care for them. 

What is almshouse?

400

Title 18 of the Social Security Act.

What is medicare?

400

A learning place where medical treatment is available for kids who need it. 

What is a school?

400

Branch of medicine that deals with the anatomy, functions, and organic disorders of nerves and the nervous system.

What is neurology?

500

Members of a health care team who work in a depedent manner with a supervising physician.

What is a physician assistant?

500

Any large scale government sponsored expansion of health insurance or intrusion in the private practice of medicine. 

What is socialized medicine?

500

Financed by the states, with matching funds from the federal gov. according to each state's per capita income. 

What is medicaid?

500

Where culturally competent and comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare is provided to migratory and seasonal farmworkers and their families.

What is a migrant health center?

500

Branch of medical practice that treats injuries, diseases, and deformities by the physical removal, repair, or readjustment of organs and tissues, often involving cutting into the body.

What is surgery?

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