True
The Oregon Death and Dignity Act was a response to _______.
Public and professional concerns about painful and demeaning terminal medical care
The 3 primary concerns of the U.S. health care systems are ________.
Access, quality, cost
The service priorities of the us health care system reflect Americas fascination with dramatic…. all of the above long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system challenge do not support non-acute services
Americans spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary therapies…
Many insurers and managed companies to consider them less expensive…
Blue Cross insurance, the predominant form of health insurance for decades…
NOT: The American hospital association policies
The initial reaction of the American medical association to blue cross hospital insurance plans…
Would be unsound and unethical
Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention…
Health promotion and specific protection
Health care represents _____% of gross domestic product.
17%
By 2050, it is estimated that __% of the pop. Will be over the age of 65
30%
The us is one of the richest nations in the world. Currently, there are an estimated…
45 million the services provided by the us health care system reflect america’s fascination with dramatic… all of the above the most significant healthcare advances of the first half of the 20th century were in the area of… vaccines and antibiotics
The most significant social legislation passed by any congress in the history of the US.
Social security act of 1935
1. hospitals, striving to find new sources of income since the advent of prospective payment, have enthustiastically adopted ______
a. sub-acute care
2. in 1965, the federal government recognized the contributions of medical-school/teaching-hospital research and training activities in advancing the