Era's
These 4 phases each distinguish a major change in the structure of the medical delivery system.
What is the Preindustrial, postindustrial, corporate, and health care reform era?
This industry is the largest employer in the nation.
What is the U.S. health care industry?
A physician in family practice, internal medicine, or pediatrics.
Who is a generalist?
The year Medicaid/Medicare was created.
What is 1965?
This type of care focuses on the whole person.
What is primary care?
This era is marked by the growth and development of a medical profession that benefited from urbanization, new scientific discoveries, and reforms in medical education.
What is the postindustrial era?
These health care professionals play a central role in health care services by evaluating a patient's health condition, diagnosing abnormalities, and prescribing treatment.
Who is a physician?
Systemic changes in how medical care is financed or delivered.
What is health care reform?
Covers all elderly persons, nonelderly disabled persons on Social Security, and nonelderly persons with end-stage renal disease.
What is Medicare?
This President led to the enactment of the Affordable Care Act.
Who is President Barack Obama?
During this colonial times to late 1800's era, these houses were the forerunner of today's inpatient psychiatric facilities.
What is an asylum?
The main caregivers for sick and injured patients and address physical, mental, and emotional needs.
Who are nurses?
An institution that existed in preindustrial America to quarantine people with contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox, or typhoid.
What is a pesthouse?
Title 19 of the Social Security Act.
What is Medicaid?
The American Dental Association recognizes these many specialty areas.
What is 8 specialty areas?
Refers to the ways in which health care delivery in the United States has become the domain of large organizations.
What is corporatization?
This is required by all states to practice pharmacy.
Graduate medical education in a specialty that takes the form of paid on-the-job training, usually in a hospital.
What is a residency?
Financed by the states, with matching funds from the federal government according to each state's per capita income.
What is Medicaid?
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?
The year that health care reform was inaugurated in the United States with the Affordable Care Act.
When is 2010?
This accounts for approximately 60% of the U.S. health care workforce.
What is Allied health?
Health care information and services offered over the Internet by professionals and nonprofessionals alike.
What is E-health?
The year the Health Care Financing Administration was created to manage Medicare and Medicaid separately from the Social Security Administration.
What is 1977?
The 5 core disciplines in public health education.
What are biostatistics, epidemiology, health services administration, health education/behavioral science, and environmental health?