Vocabulary
The type of services delivered on the basis of an overnight stay in a health care institution.
What is Inpatient care?
The era that lasted from the middle of the 18th century until the latter part of the 19th century.
What is Preindustrial era?
The era that began in the late 19th century.
What is Postindustrial era?
A federal program of health insurance for the elderly, certain disabled individuals, and people with end-stage renal disease.
What is Medicare?
Their main role is to diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth.
What is Dentists?
Developments that started around 1970 and continue into the 21st century.
What is Corporate era?
The forerunner of today's inpatient psychiatric facilities.
What is asylum?
The individual who drew out the blueprint for modern health insurance.
What is Justin F. Kimball?
A joint federal-state program of health insurance for the poor.
What is Medicaid?
Nurses who have education and clinical experience beyond those of an RN.
What is Advanced-practice nurse (APN)?
Health care information and services offered over the internet by professionals and nonprofessionals alike.
What is E-health?
The forerunner of today's hospitals and nursing homes in the United States.
What is the almshouse or poorhouse?
The individual who discovered the antibacterial properties of penicillin in 1929.
What is Alexander Fleming?
Covered hospital insurance and short term nursing home coverage after discharge from a hospital.
What is Part A of Medicare?
They provide patients with mental health care.
What is Psychologists?
The ways in which the health care delivery in the U.S. has become the domain of large organization.
What is Corporatization?
The forerunner of today's charitable clinics.
What is dispensary?
They played a critical role in galvanizing the medical profession and in protecting the interest of physicians.
What is The American Medical Association (AMA)?
This was designed to cover physicians bills through government-subsidized insurance.
What is Part B of Medicare?
The main caregivers for sick and injured patients and address their physical, mental, and emotional needs.
What is Nurses?
Various forms of cross-border economic activities.
What is Globalization?
A institution operated by the local government to isolate individuals who had contracted a contagious disease.
What is Pesthouse?
They became the model for medical education in other leading institutions around the country.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
A term that has become synonymous with any large-scale government-sponsored expansion of health insurance.
Clinical professionals who practice many areas in which physicians practice but who do not possess an MD or a DO degree.
What is Non-physician practitioner?