Preview

Health Musuem

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
612 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Health Musuem
Health Care Museum Latosha Harris HCS/235 04/08/2013 Ronald Barredo

Health Care Museum Health care is growing and as the curator of The Health care Hall of Fame Museum, we would like to pay tribute to the five most significant developments in the evolution of healthcare in the United States. In 1973 the Health Maintenance Organization Act supported the development of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) through grants for federal projects. An HMO is an organization in charge of the financing and delivery of nearly all health services to an enrolled population for a prepaid, fixed fee. HMOs were expected to hold down costs by changing the profit incentive from fee for service to promoting health and preventing illness(Benchmark Developments In U.s. Healthcare, 2003). The past decade has seen enormous declines in deaths and health care costs associated with vaccine preventable diseases. New vaccines, rotavirus, herpes zoster, and human papillomavirus vaccines were introduced. A recent economic report indicated that vaccination of each U.S. birth statistics with the current childhood immunization schedule prevents about 42,000 deaths and 20 million cases of disease, with net savings of nearly $14 billion in direct costs and $69 billion in total societal costs(NIC,2011). Evidence based screening recommendations have been created to reduce mortality from colorectal cancer and female breast and cervical cancer. Through the efforts of federal, state, and local health agencies, professional clinician societies, not-for-profit organizations, and patient advocates, standards were developed

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    As a parent my main concern is my childrens health. There has been an increased interest in vaccine safety over the past decade as opposed to the 1980’s. There has been many successful results from vaccines. The introduction and widespread use of vaccines have profoundly affected the occurrence of several infectious diseases. For example smallpox has been eliminated with the last naturally occurring case in 1977, and the vaccination against smallpox stopped. Poliomyelitis is another disease near elimination with a the last case occurring in 1979. Vaccinating your children and yourself is important, because of the existing continuous threats of…

    • 204 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Evolution of Managed Care

    • 1519 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Tufts Managed Care Institute. (1998). A brief History of Managed Care. Retrieved on August 25, 2010, from http://www.thci.org/downloads/BriefHist.pdf…

    • 1519 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Long before it was officially called the HMO, managed care can be traced back to as early as the 1920s to the mid-1940s. The first example was the Western Clinic in Tacoma, Washington, it had its own providers and a variety services for a monthly premium payment of $0.50 per member. That later expanded to 20 other sites in Oregon and Washington. That same year a physician, Dr. Shadid, in Oklahoma, established a health cooperative for farmers in small towns who don’t have access to physicians. More physicians over the country started providing more medical services for different companies. Other major medical prepaid groups came out during these times like the Group Health Association in 1937, the Kaiser- Permanente Medical program in 1942, the Health Cooperative of Puget Sound in Seattle in 1947, the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York in New York City in 1947, and the Group Health Plan of Minneapolis in 1957. The Health Maintenance Organization, HMOs for short was approved in 1973 by President Nixon. The HMO was formed by the government to make affordable healthcare to everyone since individual health insurance plans for companies were becoming costly to provide to their employees. HMOs provided a fixed prepaid monthly premium in exchange for medical services given in a network of providers. The HMO Act was supposed to enable major growth of managed health care, legislation assisted a $375 million to help the expansion and required employers who had 25 employers or more to give the option of an HMO to their workers. Health care…

    • 644 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    This simple piece of Legislation will ensure all lower-class Americans from ages 4-18 will receive all types of vaccines that are needed once a year. The new legislation will be titled, Yearly Vaccination Legislation. The Yearly Vaccination Legislation should be implemented in Ohio first, so other states follow. This state legislation will save lives of many Ohioans. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, “Vaccines have reduced and, in some cases, eliminated many diseases that killed or severely disabled people just a few generations ago”(U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 1). To expand, usage of vaccinations do not only kill viruses today, but have a potential to save future generations from older diseases. It is important that future generations are healthy in order to prevent more viruses from spreading. Without a doubt, vaccines are extremely…

    • 708 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    To make this possible immunization costs need to be considered within a policy. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the most common approach to systematically compare the costs and effects of health-care interventions (Bärnighausen et al., 2011). As health professionals, we deem it necessary to include this type of analysis to form successful vaccination programs. Vaccinations can be made cost effective invoking policy change related to mandatory immunizations. One cost effective strategy is combining more than one vaccination into a vial. Many of the vaccination costs commonly included in CBA can be reduced when, instead of delivering a vaccine in single, monovalent form, it is added to an existing vaccine formulation and administered as a multivalent solution (Bärnighausen et al., 2011). We believe cost should include the vaccine, vials and healthcare workers. After researching we decided to model our cost based on the UNICEF/WHO 2009 Immunization Summary and the UNICEF 2009 Vaccine Projections, which showed a single dose of Hib would cost $ 3.4, a dose of DTP–Hib would cost $ 3.1, and costs are projected to be even lower, at US$ 2.8, when the Hib is part of the DTP–Hep–Hib as a multivalent solution vaccine (as cited in Bärnighausen et al.,…

    • 879 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    What if someone told you that you could potentially protect your child against fatal, debilitating diseases? Well, there is a way. Although there is not a guarantee promise that a vaccine will protect your child 100%, it is still better than no protection at all. Vaccinating your child at an early age can protect them, your family, and the community as a whole. Majority of parents vaccinate their children, but there are still those percentage of parents who believe vaccinations are dangerous and could actually cause more harm than good. According to Weinberg and Szilagyi (2010), “more than a dozen major infectious diseases (most notably, smallpox, poliomyelitis, rabies, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type b disease, measles, mumps, and rubella) have been controlled in…

    • 2035 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Anti Vaccination Movement

    • 1095 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Despite the current fascination with the anti-vaccination movement, it might come as a surprise that American children actually receive more vaccinations than ever before. Only less than 0.5 percent of children receive no vaccinations at all. In Vaccine Nation, Conis argued that the widespread belief of vaccination is an important part of study on which to be educated. Conis turned her focus to the spread of vaccines in the postwar era when new vaccines targeted the more “milder” diseases of a child’s early years, including measles, mumps, and whooping cough. More recently, vaccines have been developed and promoted to protect against diseases that largely affect adults. Conis proclaimed, “Health officials were blunt in justifying the widespread…

    • 1095 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the last century diseases such as whooping cough, polio, measles, and rubella struck hundreds of thousands of infants, children, and adults in the United States. Thousands died every year from them not to mention the serious damage afflicted to the survivors such as, seizures, brain damage, or blindness. As vaccines were developed and used, rates of these diseases consistently declined and today most of them are nearly gone from our country. If we continue to vaccinate our children we can trust that diseases such polio and meningitis won 't infect, cripple, or kill our future. Vaccinations are one of the best…

    • 873 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Most members of modern society either do not understand the threats that vaccines protect us against. In 1921, more than 15,000 Americans died from diphtheria but since the implementation of mandatory vaccinations, only one case of diphtheria has been reported to the CDC since 2004. Similarly, between 1964 and 1965 nearly 13 million Americans were diagnosed with rubella leading to countless birth defects and complications, as of 2012 only nine cases of rubella were reported.…

    • 1005 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    According to Shot@Life, a United Nations Foundation partner organization, vaccines save 2.5 million children from preventable diseases every year and the CDC estimates that 322 million cases of childhood illnesses were prevented between 1994 and 2014 due to vaccination. To ensure that these vaccinations are safe, they must be regulated by numerous agencies such as the CDC, FDA, IOM, ADA, AAP, HHS, WHO, NFID, AAFP, and UNICEF. If a state’s aim is to reach a high herd immunity threshold, the public needs to be informed of the benefits of being vaccinated. Adjusting the hours of clinics to accommodate families may help increase the number of children who receive vaccinations. New legislation should be introduced to increase vaccine transparency in the pharmaceutical industry by showing the ingredients and risks of immunizations. In 1986 the National Vaccine Injury Act was passed, preventing those who experience serious side effects from a vaccine from taking vaccine manufacturers, health agencies, or healthcare workers to court. The legislation, aimed at ensuring vaccine supply and stabilizing prices by relieving pharmaceutical corporations of liability, resulted in a sharp rise in the amount of vaccinations produced as companies pushed cradle to grave vaccination. Establishing a no fault…

    • 971 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Vaccination is not without risks, since adverse events may be observed after any vaccination. Since 1990, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in the USA received from 12 000 to 14 000 reports of hospitalization, injuries and deaths after immunization. Moreover, only 10 % of doctors make reports to VAERS. That means every year there are more than 1 million people in the U.S. injured by immunization (Murphy 2002). In recent years, a concern regarding both the safety and necessity of certain immunizations has been raised, since the number of new vaccines had risenover the past two decades. This is supported by Murphy (2002) who claims thata child takes 37 doses of eleven different vaccines during his first five years of…

    • 2978 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The vaccine market is an established segment and is widely accepted as an indispensable division of the healthcare industry. It is poised to grow rapidly by addressing the following: emerging infectious agents, various types of cancer, allergies, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, smoke cessation, and neurodegenerative disorders. The global vaccine market is estimated at $32.05 billion in 2013 and is expected to reach $84.44 billion by 2022.…

    • 1813 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Hundreds of hours of time went into investigation to either confirm or dispute this hypothesis (Embree, 2004). According to a 2005 study by Zhou et al (2005) every $1 spent on the childhood series of seven vaccines (DTap, Td, Hib, polio, MMR, hepatitis B and varicella) saves $16.50 of medical spending later. “Routine childhood vaccinations with these seven vaccines resulted in annual cost savings of $9.9 billion in direct medical costs and an additional $33.4 billion in indirect cost savings (Zhou et al.,…

    • 691 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Vaccinations have reduced the spread of many diseases; including, but not limited to hepatitis, mumps, rubella, influenza, polio, and eradicated smallpox. As narrated in the RX for Survival: Disease Warriors, a Global Health Challenge video (2005) produced by Beckham, vaccines are “the ammunition for the war” against diseases. One example given was the polio vaccine, which has decreased the numbers of cases from the thousands to now hundreds (Beckham, M. 2005).…

    • 431 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    “For example, a 2008 outbreak in San Diego, California, that began with an unvaccinated boy and led to 11 cases.Direct medical costs totaled $1,347 and expenses related to quarantining 48 children who were too young to be vaccinated equaled $775 per patient.”(The fiscal times, 2) .The effects of the child costed the United states of america over 120,000 dollars, and costed the parents roughly around 2 thousand dollars all in total. So its Either you pay 2000$ for your recovery or you can pay 10-20 dollars to get a shot and prevent these diseases.Mathematically speaking, it would be a better investment to be vaccinated due to the fact that if you can contract one of these diseases it can be a big medical bill.Having extra cash is always a good thing ,Maybe you can finally fix that crack in your wall or even get that new flat screen tv you’ve always wanted in your room.The list can continue, but wait you're feeling kinda sick , i think you need to go get checked out.Oh man , the doctor says you have caught measles and now you gotta pay 2000$ dollars for your recovery.Getting vaccinated is like making a bet, but this time you’re 100% going to win. In addition, Vaccination is a big topic in school discussion due to the fact that parents who vaccinate don’t feel safe that unvaccinated kids surround their children. In Victoria, Australian Anti…

    • 1307 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays