PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Prescription Drug, Mass Psychogenic Illness, Nocebo

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3170
• Professor: Krista Trobst

Document Summary

Using health services: types of health services, specialized functions of practitioners. Each type of practitioner provides a different type of health service, using specialized knowledge and skills. The advantage in organizing the health care system into specialties is that patients can receive the greatest expertise available for each aspect of the treatment of each health problem. Professionals do not always communicate with each other effectively, so the physician in charge may not have a full picture of the person"s condition or progress: office based and in patient treatment. Hospitals: most complex medical facilities in medical care systems, employing highly sophisticated equipment and skilled practitioners from almost all specialty areas, and can provide a wide variety of services. Nursing homes: provide care for individuals who need relatively long term medical and personal care, particularly if the patients or their families cannot provide it. Outpatient treatments can include pace markers and insulin pumps: the canadian health care system.