UPDATE 2026
What were women's roles in the 1700s? - Answers healers, relied on home remedies,
potions, and tinctures.
what were wealthy families about to arrange in the 1700s? - Answers home calls
from docs for sever illness
what were docs in the 1700s? - Answers medical and intellectual authorities
what are pest houses? - Answers facility to isolate people with contagious diseases
from the rest of society
What are almshouses? - Answers institutions of care for poor people run by religious
leaders with no pt care.
what are royal hospital? - Answers prestigious medical facility that treat individuals
of wealth and means
What is the nations first public hospital? - Answers Penn Hospital
when was Penn Hospital founded and by who? - Answers Ben Franklin, Dr. Thomas
bond in 1751
what was the goal of Penn Hospital - Answers care for sick, poor, unstable who were
meandering the streets of Philly
what happened between 1700-1720? - Answers pest houses and almshouses were
primary treatment facilities
what happened in 1722? - Answers royal hospitals available to treat people with
money to afford treatment
what happened in 1736? - Answers bellevue hospital and charity hospital opened and
provided 1st rate care to individuals regardless of status.
what happened in 1751? - Answers penn hospital 1st public hospital in the us
what happened in 1798? - Answers yellow fever outbreak strained us healthcare
what happened in 1813? - Answers vaccine act of 1813 passed
what is the vaccine act of 1813? - Answers encouraged the use of smallpox vaccine,
held tremendous promise for combating dangerous and widespread illness
what was the aim of Healthcare system? - Answers to provide high quality healthcare
that leads to better health for population
what did the aim of healthcare require? - Answers optimizing relationship between
cost, equitable access and quality of care
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) - Answers triple aim (decrease capita
cost, increase experience of care, increase population health)
what are the 3 characteristics that distinguish us healthcare - Answers divisions and
fragmentation, technology, and well-know problems and politicization
division and fragmentation of us healthcare - Answers lack of central process for
governing, is governed by laws, policies and rules at local, state, fed levels. 3-party
payment
technology of us healthcare - Answers adopts new equipment, procedures,
pharmaceuticals, and other capabilities.
new tech has quick adaption to be used but has slow policies to support technology
well-known problems and politicization of us healthcare - Answers spread of global
disease, information technology, physical environment or geography, and legal issues
Cutural competence - Answers ability of providers or organization to effectively
deliver services that meet social, cultural, linguistics needs of patients
, what are key factors in us healthcare storm? - Answers patient safety, cost of care,
concerns about access and quality, huge demographic changes, rapid advances in
technology and treatment, digital transformation, data analysis, workforce issues
what is major obstacles to reform? - Answers fundamental disagreements about two
common principles for equitable and reasonable distribution of healthcare services
what is market justice? - Answers states healthcare is a product for purchase. subject
to principle of economic theory
what is social justice? - Answers healthcare is a social good that should not be subject
to strict economic principle
healthcare issue of income and social status - Answers high income and social status
leads to better health
healthcare issue of education - Answers lower education leads to poor health, more
stress, less self-confidence
healthcare issue of physical enviroment - Answers safe water, clean air, healthy
workplace, safe roads
healthcare issue of employment and working - Answers employment leads to
healthier life
healthcare issue of social support networks - Answers families, communities
healthcare issue of culture - Answers customs and traditions
healthcare issue of genetics - Answers inherited traits that may lead to diseases
healthcare issue of personal behavior - Answers eating healthy, exercising
healthcare issue of biological sex - Answers susceptibility to certain diseases
what happened in 1830? - Answers medical specialization became a common
practice
what happened in 1847? - Answers American medical association (AMA) founded
what happened in 1876? - Answers john Hopkins university founded
What happened in 1889? - Answers William, James, Charles Mayo founded Mayo
Clinic
what happened in 1918? - Answers JH1N1 virus leads to influenza outbreak
what happened in 1929? - Answers blue cross, first legitimate health insurance
launched
what happened in 1938? - Answers commercial insurance approved hospital
coverage
what is smallpox? - Answers a virus that occurred in 1800-1900s causing severe pus-
filled blisters that were contagious and led to death
when was the 1st successful smallpox vaccine and by who? - Answers 1796 By
Edward Jenner
Who approved the vaccine act of 1813? - Answers President James Madison
What causes a rise in physcians? - Answers advances in science, medical education,
licensing to establish profession
how did urbanization increase impact on us healthcare - Answers development of
industry and growth of major cities
what is cultural authority? - Answers accumulation of public trust that leads to sense
of legitimacy, the granting of relative autonomy, and ability to self regulate.
what is the historical healthcare development cycle - Answers research and scientific
knowledge ->
medical education and licensing ->
institution development ->
physician professions ->
apply technology