vital statistics- ANSWER morbidity and mortality statistics
policymaking GOVT- ANSWER impacts health care expenditures
resource utilization
healthcare delivery
healthcare innovation
sheppard towner act 1921 - ANSWER act that allowed the federal govt to give money to
the states for maternity, child welfare, and welfare programs
, GOALS - reduce maternal/infant mortality
public protection GOVT - ANSWER granted by US constitution
decision making by supreme court
e.g. air and water reg, border protection
WHO - ANSWER goal is to attain the highest possible level of health for all persons
USDHHS- ANSWER main organization responsible for health protection and promotion
and providing other human services to vulnerable populations
administers medicare and medicaid
admins >300 programs that encompass:
research, infectious disease, food and drug safety, child support enforcement
federal office of homeland security - ANSWER health infrastructure that came out of
9/11 to rebuild pubic health
how a bill becomes a law - ANSWER state rep, governor, senator, president
elizabethan poor law - ANSWER guaranteed medical care for poor, blind and lame
quarantine - ANSWER if suspected of exposure - isolated for 40 days
isolation - ANSWER separation from rest of the population
17th -19th century - ANSWER sanitation epidemics
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