Responsible for evaluating a patients health condition, diagnosing conditions, and prescribing treatment.
Immigration, Health Status, and Urbanization are all characteristics
What is social makeup?
What is any tradesman practicing medicine?
Medicine was now grounded in this
Can be referred to as First Contact Care
What is Primary Care?
Major providers of dental care. This profession diagnoses and treats diseases related to the oral cavity.
What is a dentist?
Healthcare costs and family incomes were the reason for this.
What is Economic Constraints?
People relied on family, neighbors, and publications for these
Power and Presitge now came to this profession.
What is a physician?
These physicians may serve as gatekeepers and are important in controlling costs.
traditional role of dispensing medicine prescribed by other professions.
What is a pharmacist?
What is political opportunism?
Physicians fees were paid by these.
What are personal funds?
Now described as true medical institutions.
Requires a referral and often follows after another type of care.
What is specialty care?
What is an optometrist?
New diseases, drug resistance, and global travel can all funder under this definition.
What are ecological forces?
Few in number, only in large cities, poor sanitation, and unskilled staff were characteristic of these.
What are hospitals?
These two things were reformed.
What is medical education and mental health care?
Focuses on the whole body of a person and is trained in a variety of patient conditions and problems.
What is a primary care physician
Provide patients with mental health care.
What is a psychologist?
Scientific research, new facilities, equipment, and treatment all contribute towards this.
What are Technological Advances?
These quarantined people with contagious diseases
This expanded health care to more people.
What is medicare?
Focuses on specific diseases or organs, spend significant time in inpatient hospitals
What are specialty care physicians