History & Overview of the U.S. Healthcare System
The percentage of GDP the U.S. spent on health care in 2017.
What is 17.9%?
interested entities that partake in the United States Health Care System
What are stakeholders?
What the acronym (HHS) stands for.
What is The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
He discovered that cholera was a waterborne illness, not airborne.
Who is John Snow?
The year Keuka College was founded?
What is 1890?
Activities that focus on early disease detection and slowing the progression of a disease.
What is secondary prevention?
Non-traditional medicine that is used solely for treatment.
What is alternative medicine?
Responsible for ensuring food, human and veterinary products, medical devices, cosmetics, etc. are safe.
What is the FDA?
The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health.
What is public health?
ACA is the acronym for this
These are an indication of a nation or population's health.
What are life expectancy rates or infant mortality rates?
The chief health officer and educator in the U.S. who provides information on how to improve the health of the population.
Who is the U.S. Surgeon General?
An attack on a population by deliberately releasing viruses, bacteria, or other pathogens that will cause illness or death in people.
What is bioterrorism?
This program was added to Keuka College after WWII.
What is the nursing program?
Cost containment, access, and quality are all components of what health care evaluation tool?
Country with the highest life expectancy rate.
What is Japan?
What the acronym FEMA stands for.
What is The Federal Emergency Management System?
The study of disease distribution and patterns among populations.
What is epidemiology?
In 1963, this civil rights movement icon delivered a baccalaureate address on the Keuka College campus.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
HIPAA is the acronym for this
What is the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act?
Principle that any person deserves basic health care.
What is duty to treat?
The governmental organizations that provide most of the direct services to the population.
What are local health departments?
Environment, agent, and host are all components of what?
This is what 'Penn Yan' is short for.
What is Pennsylvania Yankee?