PSYC 314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Health Care In Canada, Medical Savings Account, Inpatient Care
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Chapter 9: understand the specialized functions of practitioners. General practitioners, dermatologists, cardiologists, psychiatrists, dentists, nurses, paediatricians, neurosurgeons. Advantage: patients receive greatest expertise available for each aspect of treatment. Disadvantage: many professionals don"t comm w/ patient e ectively > specialist won"t have full pic of person"s condition or progress: describe o ce-based & in-patient treatment. Hospitals = sophisticated equipment, employ skilled practitioners from most specialty areas, health promo facilities. Nursing homes = care for indiv. who need long-term medical & personal care, particularly if fam can"t. Shift away from in-patient care because high rising costs of hospital & nursing home services, & tech. advances make it possible to maintain medical treatment w/ outpatients. Outpatient care ie) home care, is less expensive, ppl prefer being home. Inpatient care ie) elderly home, can be lonely: understand the canadian health care system & how it di ers from health care systems in other countries.
