Preindustrial to Early Postindust. Medical Systems
Medical practices were not grounded in science and primitive medical procedures were commonplace.
What is preindustrial America?
Early doctors in the US were mainly trained by this method.
What is an apprenticeship?
This input has the largest impact on a person's health.
What is lifestyle?
The number of years an individual can be expected to live if current death rates continue.
What is life expectancy?
Colonial times to late 1800s, medical education and practice were far more advanced in Great Britain, France, and Germany compared to the United States.
What is Preindustrial America?
Limited or complete lack of access to this in preindustrial America contributed to lack of quality care in surgery.
What is anesthesia?
True or False: The majority of physicians in the US are Board Certified in their specialty.
What is True?
The following is a definition of what? A state of complete physical, emotional and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is Health as defined by WHO?
This is the number of deaths per 1,000 live births.
What is the Infant Mortality Rate?
Until Around 1870, was received through individual apprenticeship with a practicing physician.
What is medical training?
Closer geographic access led to more developments in healthcare.
What was the effect of urbanization in postindustrial America?
This was the first medical school in the US.
What is the University of Philadelphia?
These factors were responsible for the leading causes of death in the early 1900s.
What are sanitation and infectious diseases?
These are things that a person should be able to do every day by themselves without help.
What are Activities of Daily Living?
True or False? Before 1880s the United States had only a few isolated hospitals which were found in large cities.What is medical training?
What is True?
The United States' Health care delivery relying mostly on large organizations and businesses.
What is the corporatization of health care delivery?
This organization turned health care services into a more corporate matter, increasing the wages of physicians and the cost of health care alike.
What is the American Medical Association?
This is the leading cause of death among 1-4 year old children.
What are Unintentional injuries?
This chronic disease has the highest prevalence among the Medicare population.
What is hypertension?
True or False: Most physicians in the US belong to the American Medical Association.
What is False?
This modern medicine strategy against diseases of civilization is to throw as much money and effort at a problem until it is solved.
What is the Space Shot Mentality?
These two institutions reformed health care education to make it more in depth and require a graduate degree.
What are Harvard and Johns Hopkins University?
Meeting people where they are to provide them with necessary health care; allocation of resources based on need
What is Health Equity?
These socioeconomic factors are highly related to poor health status.
What are poverty and education?
Selling homemade cures and patent medications was referred to as this.
What is Quackery?