VOCAB
Health Care Professionals
Health Care in Preindustrial America
Health Care in Postindustrial America
Health Care in Corporate Era
100

The first phase that lasted from the middle of the 18th century and towards the end of the 19th century in which health care was given and provided in a free market. 

What is the Preindustrial Era?

100

These health care workers look at the patient's health conditions and from there they diagnose abnormalities and give treatment. 

What are Physicians?

100

A non health care institution where people who did not align in societal terms with the rest of society were sent. 

What is an almshouse/poorhouse?

100

An organization that made licensing necessary to those who practiced medicine and made sure the practice of medicine was being used appropriately through specific laws. 

What is The American Medical Association?
100

A network of organizations that organizes a wide range of care and services for individuals of certain populations and and is held accountable for the health of those people. 

What is integrated delivery system (IDS)?

200

State government institutions that housed patients with so-called untreatable mental illnesses. 

What is asylums?
200

These health care workers are the main caregivers to the sick and wounded make sure their emotional, physical, and mental needs are met. 

What are nurses?

200

A type of institution where those who were infected with some sort of contagious disease or illness was sent. 

What is a pesthouse?

200

A term referring to the action of the years necessary for a medical degree rising from 4-9 months and then from 2-3 years and then needing to now attend graduate school to receive a medical degree. 

What is educational reform?

200

The use of technology that supports health care professionals to better accomplish their positions. 

What is telemedicine?

300

A term that defines how the United States health care system is now run and controlled by enormous organizations. 

What is corporatization?

300

These health care workers are physicians who practice care but do not own a MD or DO degree. 

What are nonphysician practitioners?

300

Clinics that administered free care to those who were poor and dispensed drugs to patients. 

What are dispensaries?

300

A political and economic system that relies on the market and exchange of production and goods. 

What is capitalism?

300

A term used to indicate how health care professionals offer services and information over the Internet. 

What is E-health?

400

Education that medical graduates receive when working in hospitals alongside those who have been working in a specific specialty. 

What is residency? 

400

These health care professionals gain particular training in order to complete duties that support those of nurses and practitioners. 

What are allied health professionals?

400

In those days, an action that did not require courses, studying, practice, exams, and licensing. Many people used inhumane measures. 

What is medical practice?

400

A term that refers to a large amount of people moving to urban areas.

What is urbanization?

400

A term used to acknowledge how many economic activities are performed by crossing borders and exchanging with other developing countries. 

What is globalization?

500

A mode of pharmacy practice where pharmacists advise patients of how, when, and how much to take certain medications and also informs them on the misuse of the specific drugs. Pharmacists also advises prescribers on which medication to choose. 

What is pharmaceutical care?

500

These health care workers arrange structured connections between the patient, the community, and the health care system. 

What are community health workers?

500

In those days, this action was not as intense as it is now and was completed through shadowing other physicians. 

What is medical training?

500

A term that refers to a revelation of understanding mental health and the availability of new drug therapies. 

What is reform of mental health care?

500

A term used to describe when care is provided in a hospital setting overnight. 

What is inpatient?