History of Health Insurance
Medical Services in Preindustrial America
Primary and Specialty Care
Health Services Administrators
Health Services Professionals
100
In the 1960s, the U.S. Congress created the first two publicly financed programs.

What is Medicare and Medicaid?

100

Until 1870, medical training was largely received through this practice rather than university education.

What is an individual apprenticeship with a practicing physician?

100

Primary care can be distinguished from specialty care through these factors. 

What is time, focus, and scope of services?

100

Health services administrators are employed at these levels of various organizations that deliver health services.

What are the top, middle, entry levels?

100

Constitute the largest group of health care professionals, the main caregivers for sick and injured patients.

What is a nurse?

200

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?

200

Medical education lacked these requirements in preindustrial America.

What is: course of study, clinical practice, residency training, and board exams?

200

The first-contact care and regarded as the portal of entry to the health care system.

What is primary care?

200

This level of administration oversees and assists with operations critical to the efficient operation of a departmental unit.

Who are entry-level administrators?

200

This health professional provides patients with mental health care and must be licensed or certified to practice.

What is a psychologist?

300

This association implemented the first Blue Shield plan that paid for physicians' fees in 1939.

What is the California Medical Association?

300
These forms of clinical therapy were practiced during early medicine.

What is bleeding, use of emetics, purging with enemas, and purgatives?

300

This form of care is episodic and considerably more focused and intense.

What is specialty care?

300

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?

300

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?

400

These factors led to the failure of national health care in the U.S. during World War I. 

What is labor and political instability?

400

The father of American psychiatry that used bleeding, purging, hot and cold baths, and mercury as treatment. 

Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?

400

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?

400

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?

400

Greek for "done by hand", believe the body is a self-healing organism.

What is a chiropractor?

500
The reform enacted in 2010 that started the "era of health care reform".

What is the Affordable Care Act?

500

These groups of people often could practice as a physician as a consequence of nonprofessional medicine. 

Who are clergymen, government officials, and tradesmen?

500

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?

500
Growth of the elderly population + shortage of qualified administrators created opportunities for this form of management.

What is long-term care management/nursing home administrators?

500

This work force has an approximate 80:100,000 ratio to patients. 

What are physicians?