Treatments
Built by state governments for patients with untreatable, chronic medical illnesses.
What is Asylum?
Covers the cost of unexpected health situations, basic and routine services.
What is Insurance?
Systemic changes in how medical care is financed or delivered.
What is Health Care Reform?
A physician who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients.
What is Hospitalist?
A program in which eligibility depends on income.
What is Means-Tested Program?
An institution that existed in preindustrial America to quarantine people with contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox, or typhoid.
What is Pesthouse?
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?
A period in the evolution of the U.S. medical delivery system that is characterized by the domination of corporations rather than individuals in decision making regarding care delivery and payment.
What is Corporate Era?
A physician who specializes in specific health care problems—for example, anesthesiologists, cardiologists, and oncologists.
What is Specialist?
Any large-scale government-sponsored expansion of health insurance or intrusion in the private practice of medicine.
What is Socialized Medicine?
A medical philosophy based on the holistic approach to treatment that also emphasizes correction of the position of the joints or tissues and diet and environment as factors that might destroy natural resistance
What is Osteopathic Medicine?
Health insurance that covers low income families, public welfare.
What is Medicaid?
Various forms of cross-border economic activities driven by global exchange of information, production of goods and services more economically in developing countries, and increased interdependence of mature and emerging world economies.
What is Globalization?
A physician in family practice, internal medicine, or pediatrics.
What is Primary Care Physicians?
A network of organizations that provides or arranges to provide a coordinated continuum of services to a defined population and is willing to be held clinically and fiscally accountable for the outcomes and health status of the population serviced.
What is Integrated Delivery System (IDS)?
A philosophy of medicine that views medical treatment as active intervention to counteract the effects of disease through medical and surgical procedures that produce effects opposite those of the disease
What is Allopathic Medicine?
A focus on the triple aim of improved health, improved health care, and lower costs, health care is experiencing a paradigm shift to integrated, patient-centered care.
What is Affordable Care Act?
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 preindustrial era?
A general name for nurses who have education and clinical experience beyond that required of a registered nurse (RN). Includes four areas of specialization in nursing: clinical nurse specialists (CNSs), certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), nurse practitioners (NPs), and certified nurse-midwives (CNMs).
What is Advanced-Practice Nurse?
Concerted activities of physicians, mainly to protect their own interests, through such associations as the American Medical Association.
What is Organized Medicine?
An unspecialized institution existing during the 18th and mid-19th centuries that mainly served general welfare functions, essentially providing shelter to the homeless, the insane, the elderly,orphans, and the sick who had no family to care for them.
What is Almshouse/Poorhouse?
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?
Phase of the medical delivery system that began in the late 19th century. The medical profession grew as a result of urbanization, new scientific discoveries, and reforms in medical education.
What is Postindustrial Era?
Clinical professionals, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, who practice in many areas similar to those in which physicians practice but who do not have an MD or a DO degree.
What is Nonphysician Practitioner?
Refers to the ways in which health care delivery in the United States has become the domain of large organizations.
What is Corporatization?