HED 044 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Prenatal Care, Moe Williams, Prescription Drug
2 Nov 2020
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Testing for risk factors and secondary prevention. Deals with failures of public health (when an unvaccinated child contracts an infectious disease, community is sickened by food contaminants) Prenatal care (disease, genetic diseases, and therapy) Hospitals required by law to provide care for life-threatening conditions. Veterans- a general right to medical care, can get care in va system. Prisoners have a right to medical care, because they are unable to seek care on their own. Most americans get health insurance through employer. Charity care- long tradition (part time volunteer physician) Public health clinics for communicable diseases (tbc) Community health centers (by federal grant, public and private health insurances, in rural areas) Medical profession has fought government attempts to provide universal insurance (as all other developed countries do) private practitioners: diagnosis and curing their domain. Medicare and medicaid - passed in the 1960s. 19% of us population under 65 is uninsured medicare.
