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Chemical Engineering
Graduate
10/04/2011

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Term
What is health?
Definition
It a state of mental, physical, and social well-being and not merely the absense of disease or infirmity.
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What are the determinates of health?
Definition
Physical environment

Social environment

Lifestyle/Behavior

Genetics/Biology
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Health Care system?
Definition
health Systems consists of all the people and actions whose primary purpose is to improve, restore, or maintain health.
Term
Main Components of HC system?
Definition
Facilities, workforce, firms producing health commodities, Research and Educational Commodities, financing mechanisms.
Term
United States HC?
Other countries HC?
Definition
No real trunk, fragmented, decentralized.
Central trunk and has branches, generally ministry of health, coordinate services.
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Unique Features of the US HC?
Definition
-Fragmented of health care regulation, financing and delivery.
-"For-profit-nature" of provision of health care services. -Comprehensive system to pay for health services. - Highest expenditure per captia.
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Major Players in the US HCS?
Definition
-Government -Voluntary/Professional Agencies -Private Enterprise -Private Professional Practice.
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Delivery Health Care System?
Definition
Primary Care, Secondary Care, Tertiary Care.
Term
Primary Care
Definition
Primary care provider. Practice of basic general medicine
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Secondary Care
Definition
Surgical procedures and diagnostic; treatment by specialists. Hospitals. Care provided through a referral system.
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Tertiary Care
Definition
Highly specialized diagnostic therapeutic and rehabilitative services.
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Paradoxes of the US HCS?
Definition
-Spends the most money on HC per capita.
-Has the most advanced technology available.
-Has the highest health care standards.
-High rates of medical errors (44-98k deaths/yr).
-Uneven distribution of access to HC services.
-Socioeconomic and racial disparities in outcomes.
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Problems with US HC Delivery?
Definition
-Spends too much on health care.
-Rate of increase in health care cost has been significantly unaffected by interventions.
-Geographic and demographic distribution of health services are viable.
-Health Care is widely misallocated and fragmented.
-Not as much is done to prevent disease and promote health as could be done.
-Many services are either under or over met.
-Many have no health care coverage of any kind.
-Increased focus on "high-tech", expensive interventions.
-Rationing of access, especially by race is widespread, minority not receiving benefits.
-Problems with the quality of health care.
Term
HCS problems are not caused by .....
Definition
-Technical or scientific inability to deal with disease.
-Lack of money.
Term
HCS problems are caused by...
Definition
Misuse and misallocation of resources.
Better planning could prevent this.
Term
Aims for 21st century HCS..
Definition
Quality of Health Care in America..
safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient (avoid waste), equitable (equal across board despite age, sex)
Term
US Economic Transformation split into what three era's?
Definition
Agriculture Era (18th and 19th; not much of a healthcare),
Industrial Era (19th and 20th; economy has changed, movement in populations)
Information Era (1956 to present)
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US HC Colonial to Early 1800s include?
Definition
-Government Response is weak.
-1756 First Medical School
-1820 First Medical School
-1820 First US Pharmacopeia
-1821 First College of Pharmacy (Philadelphia College of Apothecaries)
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Health Care at End of 1800s?
Definition
-Reimbursement ("Fee for service" "cash" or "in kind")
-Increased acceptance of Germ Theory of Disease
-Transformation of hospitals (Charitable Institutions to Hospitals)
-Industrial Era: Large scale manufacture of patient medicines
Term
Patient Medicines...
Definition
oopium, morphine, cocaine
Death resulted in some use of these medicine.
Term
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Definition
Initial legislation toward food and drug safety-misbranding of drug product. Identification and labeling
Term
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act-FDC Act (1938)
Definition
-Created (present-day) FDA- safety of drug under government control.
-Premarket approval by FDA.
-No formal distinction between prescription/ non-prescription drugs (need to be safe for consumption)
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Children's Bureau established (1912)
Definition
Nutrition and Housing conditions
Term
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act (1921)
Definition
No info.
1900 to 1940
Term
National Institute of Health (1930)
Definition
-Comprises of 27 health institutes and centers that support 38,000 medical & social science research projects nationwide.
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Establishment of first insurance plans (1929)
Definition
-Beginning of third party
-Not established by government but by a hospital
-grandfather of bluecross (hospital) & then blueshield (physician)
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Medicine: 1910 Flexner Report
Definition
Revealed deficiencies of medical training. Reform: -placed medical education w/in Universities -accreditation under the control of the AMA -closing of weaker schools -start of the "golden age" of medicine
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Pharmacy: 1927 Charters Report
Definition
-Defined needs for pharmacy curiculum
-Defined pharmacy as profession
-1928, 4yr BS degree adopted
Term
Era of Expansion 1940-1970
Definition
Characterized by significant growth in facilities, insurance & utilization. (Hospital survey & Construction Act (Hill-Burton, 1946) and Amendments to the Social Security Act of 1935 established)
-Increased utilization of HC goods and services-due to available funding.
Term
Hospital survey & Construction Act (Hill-Burton, 1946)
Definition
provided federal funding for hospitals
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Amendments to the Social Security Act of 1935
Definition
Created Medicare/Medicaid programs (1965).
Brought insurance to elderly disabled & poor.
Term
Era of Expansion 1940-1970
Amendment to FDC Act of 1938
Definition
1951 Durham-Humphrey Amendment
1962 Drug Amendment
1965 Drug Control Abuse Amendment-DEA
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1951 Durham-Humphrey Amendment
Definition
Creation of "legend" drugs = prescription drugs
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1962 Drug Amendment (Kefauver-Harris)
Definition
-"Proof of efficacy"
-Advertising-disclose accruate information.
-ADR required to be reported to FDA
-No longer market generics as new costly drugs under a different brand name
-Human studies required informed consent
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1965 Drug Control Abuse Amendment-DEA
Definition
-FDA control of those of abuse (Control substances)
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