History of Health Care
Essential understanding of the main characteristics of the medical delivery system
what is knowledge of the history of health care?
The two types of degrees awarded by an accredited medical school
What is MD and DO?
What is MCOs?
Historically played a critical role in galvanizing the medical profession and in protecting the interests of physicians
what is AMA?
Professionals that focus on the entire community rather than individuals
What is public health professionals?
The four recognizable historical periods
What is preindustrial era, postindustrial era, corporate era, and passage of ACA?
Physicians trained in family medicine/general practice, general medicine, and general pediatrics
What is generalists?
Health care delivery in the U.S. became the domain of large organizations
What is Corporate Era?
Another name for private health insurance
What is voluntary health insurance?
Play a central role in health care services
What is physicians?
what is 1870?
Physicians in non-primary care specialties dealing with diseases or organ systems
What is specialists?
Driven by global exchange of information, the production of goods and services, and increased interdependence
What is Globalization?
The first broad-coverage health insurance
What is worker's compensation?
Health workers that connect public and primary care to their communites
What is community health worker?
The year Social Security Act passed
what is 1935?
Licensing board of MD and DO
What is the National Board of Medical Examiners and Osteopathic Medical Examiners
Refers to major changes through government policy to expand health insurance to the uninsured
What is health care reform?
The creator of the hospital insurance plan for teachers at Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, Texas
What is Justin F. Kimball?
Profession that requires DDS degree or DMD degree and successful completion of written and practical examinations
What is a Dentist?
The year American Medical Association was founded
What is 1847?
Name the top three most common medical specialties
What is anesthesiology, cardiology, and dermatology?
Health care information and services offered over the internet by professionals and nonprofessionals
What is E-health?
The first plan designed to pay physician's fees and year it was created
What is Blue Shield plan, in 1939?
Top three locations majority of health professionals are employed by
What is hospitals, nursing care facilities, and physicians' offices and clinics?