CHP 3
Healthcare was delivered in a free market.
What is Medical Services in Preindustrial America?
Commonly referred to as a lunatic asylum
What is an Asylum?
Play a central role in health care services by evaluating a patient's health condition, diagnosing abnormalities and prescribing treatment.
What are Physicians?
This specialty is organized around the site of care
What is a Hospitalist?
Major changes through government policy to expand health insurance to the uninsured.
What is health care reform?
Physicians' fees were paid out of personal funds.
What is Medical Services in Preindustrial America?
Established as outpatient clinics to provide free care to those who could not afford to pay
What are Dispensaries?
All states require this of physicians
What is a license?
Diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth
What is a dentist?
U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a controversial ACA requirement that forced certain employers to provide contraceptives that might be deemed to induce abortions
Hospitals were few in number and only located in big cities.
What is Medical Services in Preindustrial America?
Created increased reliance on the specialized skills of paid professionals, as this trend distanced people from family-based care.
What is Urbanization?
Graduate medical education in a speciality that takes the form of paid on-the-job training, usually in a hospital
What is a Residency?
Dispenses medicines prescribed by physicians, dentists and podiatrists and to provide consultation on the proper selection and use of medicines
What is a Pharmacist?
Provide vision care, such as examination, diagnosis, and correction of vision problems
What is an Optometrist?
Around this year, medical training was largely received through individual apprenticeship with a. practicing physician rather than through university education
What is 1870?
Before the 1880s, where the U.S. had only a few isolated hospitals
What is New York, Boston, New Orleans, St. Louis & Philadelphia?
Practiced by DOs, emphasizes the musculoskeletal system
What is Osteopathic Medicine?
This country has approximately 80 primary care physicians per 100,000 people
What is the United States?
Provide patients with mental health care
What is a Psychologist?
Considered extremely inhumane and viewed as aberrant behavior
What is treatment of mentally ill?
Operated by local governments to isolate people who had contracted a contagious disease such as cholera, smallpox, typhoid, or yellow fever.
What is pesthouse?
The largest group of health care professionals, developed around hospitals around WW1
What is a Nurse?
Nurses who have education and clinical experience beyond that required of an RN.
What is advanced-practice nurse?
Members of a health care team who work in a department manner with a supervising physician
What are PAs?