Health Care Professionals
"These individuals play a central role in health care services by evaluating a patient’s health condition, diagnosing abnormalities, and prescribing treatment."
What are Physicians?
In the pre-industrial era practice of medicine in the United States was this character rather than a professional character.
What is domestic?
This system was originally designed to make cash payments to workers for wages lost because of job-related injuries and disease.
What is Worker’s Compensation?
Hungarian physician implemented the handwashing policy in Vienna. The aseptic technique was born. He was also concerned about the high death rate from puerperal fever among women after childbirth.
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
He is known as the father of American psychiatry, believed that mental illness was caused by irritation of the blood vessels in the brain.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
This profession is the main caregiver for sick and injured patients and addresses physical, mental, and emotional needs.
Who are nurses?
The period in the evolution of the U.S. medical delivery system is characterized by the domination of corporations rather than individuals in decision-making regarding care delivery and payment.
What is the Corporate era?
This association insured that private health insurance would be preserved, and the organization remained adamantly opposed to government-run national health insurance.
What is the American Medical Association?
This person is credited with pioneering the germ theory of disease and microbiology around 1860. He also demonstrated the sterilization techniques, such as boiling to kill microorganisms and withholding exposure to air to prevent contamination.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Surgery was limited because this substance that induces insensitivity to pain had not yet been developed, and antiseptic techniques were not known.
What is anesthesia?
These professionals dispense medicines prescribed by physicians, dentists, and podiatrists and to provide consultation on the proper selection and use of medicines.
What are pharmacists?
The phase of the medical delivery system from the middle part of the 18th century until the latter part of the 19th century. Health care was not grounded in science and was delivered in a free market.
What is the Preindustrial era?
One of the largest sources of public health insurance in the U.S., serving the elderly, the disabled, and those with end-stage renal disease.
What is Medicare?
German professor of physics who discovered x-rays.
Who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
These were built by state governments for patients with untreatable, chronic medical illnesses.
Asylum
Their main role is to diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth.
Who are Dentists?
Refers to the ways in which health care delivery in the United States has become the domain of large organizations.
What is Corporatization?
Third-largest source of health insurance in the U.S., insuring approximately 19% of the U.S. population and providing coverage for low-income adults, children, the elderly, and the disabled.
What is Medicaid?
Discovered the antibacterial properties of penicillin in 1929
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This served the destitute and disruptive elements of society and provided some basic nursing care. It also provides shelter for the homeless, the insane, the elderly, orphans, and the sick who had no family to care for them.
What is Almshouse or Poorhouse?
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 Allied Health Professional?
This is driven by the global exchange of information, the production of goods and services more economically in developing countries, and the increased interdependence of mature and emerging world economies.
What is Globalization?
Provide insurance to children in uninsured families.This program expanded coverage to children in families that have modest incomes but do not qualify for Medicaid.
What is Children’s Health Insurance Program?
He is referred to as the father of antiseptic surgery
Who is Joseph Lister?
These houses are used to quarantine people with contagious diseases.
What are pesthouses?