Major Characteristics of U.S. Health Care
The health care system most developed countries use
What is a national health insurance model?
The overall satisfaction with life in an environment
What is quality of life?
What is the American Civil War?
The graduate medical education often required for doctors and nurses that recently passed the board
What is residency?
What is Germany?
The policy that expanded health insurance rather than universal coverage
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
A condition that lies between the acute and chronic extremes on the disease severity continuum
What is a subacute condition?
The increase in the population of cities rather than suburban communities
The physicians in non-primary care specialties that regard a specific organ or disease
What are specialists?
The healthcare system used in the U.S.
The provider of low-income adults, children, the elderly, and the disabled
What is Medicaid?
The factors that contribute to a person's overall physical and mental health
What are determinants of health?
The father of antiseptic surgery
Who is Joseph Lister?
Those involved in inpatient medicine and manage the care of hospitalized patients
What are hospitalists?
The institute created to monitor clinical commissioning groups in England
What is the National Health Service?
A network of health care providers that coordinate health care to a population
What is inegrated delivery systems?
The system in which health care production is determined by how willing customers are willing to purchase products
What is market justice?
The theory created by Louis Pasteur that allowed the first methods of sterilization
What is the germ theory of disease and microbiology?
Physicians that assist patients with mental health care
What are psychologists?
The Canadian institute that promotes standards for quality of care and advancements in medical practices and tools
What is the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement?
The policy used to provide insurance to children in uninsured families
What is the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)?
The system in which health care is regarded as a social good rather than an economic one
What is social justice?
The anesthetic first used in a tooth extraction in 1846
What is nitrous oxide (laughing gas)?
Physicians that treat patients through physiotherapy
What are chiropractors?
The fund that began primary care reform in Canada in 2000
What is the Primary Care Transition Fund?