POL 536 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act, Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, Campaign Finance Reform In The United States
6 Apr 2018
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Unit 1: introduction to us health care system. If the private sector wants to do it, then the politics changes. What is health policy: health policy influences a variety of activities, public health: sanitation, disease control, infant mortality, nutrition, occupational health, environmental health, health care: access, service delivery, standards for practice & treatment. Identifying tobacco as a health hazard: reducing the number of young people who start smoking. Evolution of health care policy in america: four eras. Era i: emerging system: pre-1910s: minimal licensure & professional standards: barbers, clergymen, & other untrained people were practicing medicine. Era ii: growing & implementing new standards: 1910s-1960s. In 1910, carnegie corporation for teaching asked flexner to look at medical schools in us, so then they started looking at them. Standards at schools had been very low, flexner gave standards he thought were appropriate to american. Medical agency so they began to set standards for medical schools.
