History of Healthcare
The average lifespan during the time of ancient Egyptians and Babylonians
What is 30 years?
When there is a greater number of cases of an infectious disease than in a normal population or area. Meaning more sick people in an area than healthy people.
What is an epidemic?
Qualities a healthcare worker must have.
What is being a lifelong learner, being flexible, and open minded to change?
The percentage of the US gross domestic product made from healthcare spending.
What is 18%
A group of individual parts that work together to form a unified whole. (Ex. your family, hospitals, MD offices)
What is a system?
They treated illness in the primitive era.
Who are Priests and medicine men?
An epidemic that spreads to a much larger population or across several countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
The study of diseases.
What is Epidemiology?
The Act that passed to reduce the number of uninsured individuals in the US.
What is the Patient protection and affordable care act. Or What is the Affordable care act.
Anything that enters a system. It could include money, resources, materials, or effort.
What is input?
Believed to be the first physician
Who is Imhotep?
The first major pandemic in history
What is the bubonic plague.
Described as total good health.
What is wellness?
The amount of money paid to an insurance agency for a health insurance policy.
What is a premium?
The two ways countries fund their healthcare system.
What is publicly and privately funding?
Was used as medicine during primitive times derives from the poppy plant.
What is Opium?
This name was given when the 2nd bubonic plague hit.
What is the Black Death?
The reason healthcare costs are going up (rising).
What is advancements in technology?
Using someone's health info as if it were your own, Billing for medical services that were not provided, Delivering unnecessary medical services, Misrep. the nature of medical services provided to obtain higher reimbursement, providing or receiving money for participating in any of the schemes above.
What is Healthcare Fraud?
Norway, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada
What are countries that have public systems?
Known as the Father of Medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
The time of enlightenment. Europeans began to reject their commitment to religion, and developed new ideas about science and the arts.
What is the Renaissance?
Right to: Emergency treatment, respect, informed consent, refuse treatment, choose providers, privacy, appeal, and patient responsibilities.
What are the Patients Bill of Rights?
The law that protects patient health information and confidentiality.
What is HIPAA.
Countries that have Private systems