HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Welfare Function, Smallpox, Scientific Method
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History of health care delivery in the us. Self-care or self-treatment: a category in healthcare in which people have tried to help or treat themselves. From colonial times through the latter portion of the 19th century : healthcare and medical education in the us lagged far behind their counterparts in. Almshouse was also called the poor house. They were run by the local government primarily to provide food, shelter, and basic nursing care for indigent people who could not be cared for by their own families: local government also ran pesthouses . Served as a place to isolate people who had contracted an infectious disease such as: Late 19th century for(cid:373) a health (cid:272)are gradually (cid:373)o(cid:448)ed fro(cid:373) the patie(cid:374)t"s ho(cid:373)e to the physi(cid:272)ia(cid:374)"s office and into the hospital: primary reason for this change was the building and staffing of many new hospitals.
