MHA 707 Exam D 2025, Healthcare
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opening of 20th century - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -doctors
were solo practitioners
-hospitals were single, independent entities, mostly non-
profit
-long term care for the elderly was largely home-based
-pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing was
a small business
1847 - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ founding of American
Medical Association (AMA)
AMA
Changes in HC during the 19th century led to modern
HC - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -established standards for
preliminary medical education for the degree of MD
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-Code of medical ethics
-recommended use of anesthetic agents for surgery and
obstetrics
-noted the dangers of secret remedies (snake oil) and
patent medicines
-recommended that state governments register births,
marriages, and deaths
advances that made a practice of medicine more
successful in treating health problems (Accomplishments
in early years?) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -improvements in
surgery made during the civil war
-application to medicine of advances in bacteriology by
scientists such as louis pasteur
provided the start for some of the largest names in the
modern pharmaceutical industry : wyeth, pfizer, squibb -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ demand for therapeutics fueled
by the civil war
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1861 - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ founding U.S. nursing corps
nursing corps - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -created
ambulance-to-emergency room system we know today
-established hierarchy of treatment stations to type of
hospital facilities
1899 - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ founding of association of
hospital superintendents
Association of hospital superintendents became -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ American hospital association
(AHA)
1900 - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ adoption of the Bertillon
or International List of Causes of Death
Bertillon or International List of Causes of death -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ -predecessor of the international
classification of Diseases (ICD)
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-brought some standards and criteria in the study of
diseases
both public and private sectors were involved in -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ -providing health care coverage
-building the American health care infrastructure
1811 - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ access to health care for
members of the military, vets, and fam had become a
public sector initiative
1910 - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -early forerunners of
health insurance plans appeared as "prepaid" group
practices
-plan members paid a monthly premium and received a
wide range of medical services through an exclusive
group of providers
1929
What are Blue Cross and Blue Shield? - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ -all as Blue Cross plans were established to