History of Medical Care
The forerunner of today’s inpatient psychiatric facilities.
What is an asylum?
What is medical care?
The view on healthcare that separates the U.S. from other countries.
What is universal healthcare?
The elderly need programs to help them afford health insurance and receive the help they need.
What is Medicare?
A professional who evaluates a patient's health and prescribes treatments for any problems they might have.
What is a physician?
The forerunner of today's hospitals and nursing homes in the United States.
What is an almshouse?
The amount of wealth one has and how that affects their day-to-day life.
What is socioeconomic status?
The United States attempts to promote better health within its population through a 10-year plan.
What are the Healthy People initiatives?
People with a lower socioeconomic status cannot afford healthcare on top of their day-to-day lives so they need programs to help them with that.
What is Medicaid?
A doctor that has a specific organ system or particular disease that they focus on in their practice.
What is a specialist?
President Barack Obama's attempt to push for cheaper and more accessible healthcare.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Factors like air pollution, food contaminants, water contaminants, and radiation.
What are physical health determinants?
Millennials are pushing toward these ideals versus traditional capitalistic views.
What is socialism?
In 1939, the California Medical Association created the first physician plan.
What is the first Blue Shield Plan?
A healthcare professional that doesn't worry about patients in specific but focuses on the area where healthcare professionals work.
What is a hospitalist?
The group of physicians who wanted to protect the interest of physicians and fought to pay physicians more.
What is the American Medical Association?
Factors like diet, exercise, stress factors, and unhealthy behaviors.
What are behavioral factors?
People must have the financial resources to pay for the care that they need.
What is market justice?
Major changes throughout government policy to expand health insurance to the uninsured.
What is healthcare reform?
What is a pharmacist?
U.S. Supreme Court's 1999 decision to provide community-based services to people who are mentally ill.
What is Olmstead v. L.C.?
Factors that can cause specific diseases or a predisposition for certain things passed down from previous generations.
What are genetic factors?
It is the responsibility of everyone in a society to work together and provide the proper care that everyone needs.
What is social justice?
Various forms of cross-border economic activities.
What is globalization?
The main caregiver for sick or injured patients who aid them with their mental, physical, and emotional health.
What is a nurse?