Major Forces of Change in U.S. Health Care Delivery
Self-Reliance.
Welfare assistance for the needy.
What is Cultural Beliefs and Values?
Federal and state program that helps with medical costs for people with limited income.
What is Medicaid?
Another word for 'Private Health Insurance.'
What is, 'Voluntary Health Insurance?'
Plays a central role by evaluating a patient's health condition, diagnosing abnormalities, and prescribing treatment.
Who are Physicians?
Percentage of health care labor force in the United States.
How much is 13%?
Demographic Shifts.
Immigration.
Health Status.
What are Social Changes?
National health insurance program.
What is Medicare?
The first broad-coverage health insurance in the U.S. for workers for wages lost because of job-related injuries and disease.
What is workers' compensation?
Major providers of dental care.
Who are dentists?
Group among the most well educated and diverse of all labor groups.
Who are health professionals?
Scientific Research.
New Treatments.
Training of Health Professionals.
What are Technological Advances?
Advances in medical science necessitated the reform of medical education.
What is Educational Reform?
Are averse to higher taxes to pay for the increased cost of a national health care program.
Who are Middle Class Americans?
Major caregivers of sick and injured patients, addressing their physical, mental, and emotional needs.
Who are nurses?
Will lead to greater utilization of health care services.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Health Care Costs.
Health Insurance.
Family Incomes.
What are Economic Constraints?
AMA Acronym
What is American Medical Association?
National health care failed to get an early footing because of labor and political stability in the U.S. except..
What is Europe?
Someone who received a degree in a science related to health care and has responsibility for the delivery of health or related services.
Who are allied health professionals?
One type of specialty not categorized by a specific organ, disease, or age.
What is a hospitalist?
New Diseases.
Global Travel and Transport.
What are Ecological Forces?
Support of licensing laws, control over medical training, and powerful political interest group.
What is 'Organized Medicine?'
Opposed national health care initiatives.
Who is The AMA?
Top, middle, and entry levels of various types of organizations that deliver health services.
Who are health service administrators?
The traditional role to dispense medicines prescribed by physicians, dentists, and podiatrists and to provide consultation on the proper selection and use of medicines.
Who are pharmacists?