Health in the United States [0.03%]
美国的健康状况
A S Lunde
A S Lunde
On the whole, the American people consider themselves healthy and, according to the major health indicators, they are becoming healthier all the time. The expectation of life at birth is one and one-half times what it was at the beginning o...
R A Zelten
R A Zelten
The growth of third-party programs to pay the costs of health care has occurred in an unplanned manner. As a result, the country presently is faced with a number of uncoordinated payment programs that sometimes work against each other. Whil...
Care and treatment of the mentally ill in the United States: historical developments and reforms [0.03%]
美国精神病人关怀和治疗的历史发展及改革措施
J P Morrissey,H H Goldman
J P Morrissey
Three major cycles of reform in public mental health care in the United States--the moral treatment, mental hygiene, and community mental health movements--are described as a basis for assessing the shifting boundaries between the mental he...
P Lerman
P Lerman
Before America began creating a federally based welfare state in the 1930s, most publicly funded responses to social problems had an institutional bias. The ways in which the welfare programs initiated 50 years ago have helped to influence ...
H D Banta,A K Burns,C J Behney
H D Banta
Medical technology has become a controversial national policy issue, largely because of rapidly rising national health expenditures and their relation to medical technology. These costs are increasingly viewed in relation to benefits or eff...
M L Ashcraft,S E Berki
M L Ashcraft
Evolution of a one-door, one-class system of medicine for all Americans was the professed goal of the social legislation of the 1960s. The development of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) was seen to be a major mechanism for assuring ...
J S Boozer
J S Boozer
One of the more unexplored yet frightening aspects of the Nazi years in Germany, 1933-45, is the conduct of the doctors during those years. Many of them abandoned the traditional guiding norms for the practice of medicine, archaically expre...
Medical malpractice problem [0.03%]
医疗事故问题
C P Hall Jr
C P Hall Jr
The medical malpractice problem is extremely complex and is perceived very differently by health care providers, patients, and other segments of society. As a widely recognized problem, it is of relatively recent origin. Its potential socie...
M H Cantor
M H Cantor
The growing number of elderly is bringing about dramatic changes in family life, in the nature and extent of interventions necessary to support an aging population, and in our notions about respective roles of family and community in provid...