What is a community health organization? - Answers -Organizations involved in providing health
information, education, resources, policy, services, and care
Health trends in the US - Answers -They drive the focus of community health organizations
US health compared to the rest of the world - Answers - US is one of the healthiest
Factors that impact community health organizations - Answers - funding
- political party in power
- resources in community
- having high quality organizations and qualified staff
Demographics
- Assess population and needs
Two main types of Health Models: - Answers
Medical Model - Answers - Focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disease
Wellness Model - Answers - Focuses on the prevention of disease
1900s - Answers - beginning of organized medicine
- AMA becomes a powerful force
1910s - Answers - Flexner report
Margaret Sanger - Answers -"what every girl should know" 1916
-"what every mother should know" 1917
-1917 sent to workhouse for creating a public nuisance-- birth control
1920s - Answers - Penicillin is discovered - physicians become high class people
Frank Billings, M.D. - Answers Founder Billings Hospital in Chicago
1930s - Answers - Depression
- Social Security Act is passed, omitting health insurance
- Blue cross starts to sell private coverage
1940s - Answers - cold war
, - penicillin comes into use
- prepaid healthcare begins
- Health insurance is offered to lure employees during WWII
- Hill Burton Act to build hospitals
Harry S. Truman - Answers - 33rd president
- Truman offers single national health plan but is denounced by the AMA
-- considered a communist plot
1960s - Answers - More companies selling health insurance
- Medicare and Medicaid is passed in 65
1970s - Answers - Nixon endorses HMOs
1980s - Answers - Shift to corporation run healthcare
- Payment shifts from cost based to DRG prospective payment
1990 - Answers - HIV/ AIDS is very prevalent
- Healthcare costs increase
2010s - Answers -Health Care Reform
-Continuation of current system?
-New system with universal coverage?
-Healthcare costs?
-Medical tourism?
-Other issues
For- Profit health care businesses - Answers - Making a profit is the primary reason for the business to
exist
Not- For - Profit - Answers - Primary reason for the business is something other than making a profit
- Providing a service to the community
501(c)(3) - Answers Various charitable, non-profit, religious, and educational organizations
Provides donors of 501 (c)(3)'s