HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
What health care professional cleans teeth?
Dentist
What type of government-based program is intended to cover the eligible poor, as determined by income?
Medicaid
Name a country that has a national health care system.
Answers may vary (Canada, U.K., Germany)
Following a patient over several years for high blood pressure and high cholesterol would be classified as what type of care?
Chronic Care
Describe how hospitals in pre-industrial America were like.
Dirty, unsanitary, non-scientific, etc.
This professional provides vision care such as examination, diagnosis, and correction of vision problems.
Optometrist
What world wide event created a link between employment and health insurance in the United States?
World War II
This type of justice is based upon people’s willingness and ability to pay.
Market Justice
A physician who specializes and gains a certificate in specific area of health problems is called what?
A specialist
In preindustrial America, persons with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis were cared for in what type of facility
Pesthouse
This professional is responsible for the operational, clinical, and financial outcomes of the entire health organization.
Health Service Administrator
Under what government-based program do patients with end-stage renal disease receive health insurance benefits through?
Medicare
This principle believes that the equitable distribution of health care is a societal, rather than an individual responsibility.
Social Justice
A sudden stroke and visit to the Emergency Room would be classified as what type of care?
Acute Care
What is the name of the legislative act that decreased the number of uninsured Americans in the last decade?
The Affordable Care Act
This type of professional focuses on the community as a whole, rather than treating the individual.
Public Health Professional
The blueprint for modern health insurance was conceived at Baylor University as a hospital insurance plan. This became the model for what insurance plan across the nation?
Blue Cross
This term refers to the ways in which health care delivery in the U.S has become the domain of large organizations.
Coporatization
Healthcare at a basic rather than specialized level for people making an initial approach to a doctor or nurse for treatment.
Primary Care
In 1847 this organization was formed and helped consolidate power, improve medical education, and establish medical licensing laws
American Medical Association
This professional treats patients with diseases or deformities of the feet.
Podiarist
What is the name of the insurance program for US military?
Tricare
What is the name of the American ten year initiatives that outline key America national health objectives?
Healthy People 2020
Type of medicine that emphasizes the well-being of every aspect of the whole person, including spiritual, physical, mental, social, and emotional.
Holistic Medicine
During what era did urbanization, scientific discoveries, formation of hospitals, and reform of mental health care occur?
Post-Industrial Era