MCC-UE 1040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Jack Kevorkian, School Hygiene, Fokker E.Ii

• School: New York University
• Department: Media, Culture & Communication
• Course: MCC-UE 1040
• Professor: phoungthao Le

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Medical care is even more necessary when public health is not functioning perfectly. Lack of resources, lack of political will, & emergence of new health threats are gaps in public health. Medical system deals with the consequences of failures in public health. Public health sees a role for itself as the provider of last resort, offering needed medical care to people who cannot afford to pay for it. Gov"t regulation needed to set standards for the practice of various healthcare services, to discipline medical professionals, & to set policy when ethical dilemmas have arisen: when medical care is a public health responsibility a. Bc of the possibility that one sick individual could infect many others. Quarantines to immunization programs, to the provision of free medical treatment for those w/out health insurance & cannot afford care. Public health nurses are sent to track down patients & make sure they take their medicine a. iv.