What is Medicare and Medicaid?
Until 1870, medical training was largely received through this practice rather than university education.
What is an individual apprenticeship with a practicing physician?
Primary care can be distinguished from specialty care through these factors.
What is time, focus, and scope of services?
Health services administrators are employed at these levels of various organizations that deliver health services.
What are the top, middle, entry levels?
Constitute the largest group of health care professionals, the main caregivers for sick and injured patients.
What is a nurse?
This American businessman/educator paved the way for modern health insurance when they created the first hospital insurance plan for teachers at Baylor University Hospital.
Who is Justin F. Kimball?
Medical education lacked these requirements in preindustrial America.
What is: course of study, clinical practice, residency training, and board exams?
The first-contact care and regarded as the portal of entry to the health care system.
What is primary care?
This level of administration oversees and assists with operations critical to the efficient operation of a departmental unit.
Who are entry-level administrators?
This health professional provides patients with mental health care and must be licensed or certified to practice.
What is a psychologist?
This association implemented the first Blue Shield plan that paid for physicians' fees in 1939.
What is the California Medical Association?
What is bleeding, use of emetics, purging with enemas, and purgatives?
This form of care is episodic and considerably more focused and intense.
What is specialty care?
This level of administration provides leadership and strategic direction and are responsible for the long term success of an organization.
Who are top-level administrators?
Main role of this profession is to diagnose and treat problems related to the teeth, gums, and tissues of the mouth.
What is a dentist?
These factors led to the failure of national health care in the U.S. during World War I.
What is labor and political instability?
The father of American psychiatry that used bleeding, purging, hot and cold baths, and mercury as treatment.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
In the gatekeeping model, this form of care is essential in controlling costs, utilization rates, and the rational allocation of services.
What is primary care?
This level of administration may have leadership roles in major centers such as outpatient, surgical services, nursing services, or may be departmental managers.
Who are middle-level administrators?
Greek for "done by hand", believe the body is a self-healing organism.
What is a chiropractor?
What is the Affordable Care Act?
These groups of people often could practice as a physician as a consequence of nonprofessional medicine.
Who are clergymen, government officials, and tradesmen?
This form of care is associated with secondary and tertiary levels of services such as particular diseases or specific organ systems.
What is specialty care?
What is long-term care management/nursing home administrators?
This work force has an approximate 80:100,000 ratio to patients.
What are physicians?