Introduction to Health Services Administration

Academic medical centers provide tertiary, secondary, and primary care but have a principal focus on biomedical research, the teaching of medical residents and medical students, and often an array of other professional training, research, and service activities.
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Question 27
Early public health efforts in the United States in the eighteenth century focused on inspection of ships arriving in harbors along the eastern seacoast and included laws for the isolation and quarantine of persons suspected to be carrying diseases that might be spread to the general population.
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Question 28
Fill in the Blank: One further important development in public health thinking and theory was_____________________.Under this law, the federal government provided the funds to individual states for the establishment to plan and control the future development of health services- primarily hospitals-in the United States. The implementation was complicated and filled with significant controversy throughout the country; the law has since been allowed to lapse on both federal and state levels, and there is presently no direct attempt, by either federal or state governments, to plan the distribution of personal health services.
THE UNITED STATES CHILDREN'S BUREAU
THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT OF 1935
FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
HEALTH PLANNING AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1974
Question 29
Fill in the Blank: ______________federal government activities grew with regard to specific health problems related to children. The United States Children’s Bureau was formed in 1912, and the first White House conference on child health was held in 1919. The Sheppard- Towner Act of 1922 established the federal Board of Maternity and Infant Hygiene; this act provided administrative funds to the Children’s Bureau and also provided funds to the states to establish programs in maternal and child health.
IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
AS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Question 30
For-profit hospitals are not just accountable to the community but must also provide a return on investment to the shareholders; therefore they expect to generate a profit to pay a return to the equity investors for their capital.
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