Public Health in the Twenty-First Century: Achievements and Challenges
KEY TERMS Affordable Care Act (ACA) Biotechnology Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Healthy People 2020 Human Genome Project Managed care organizations (MCOs) Public Health Information Network (PHIN) The…
Why Is Public Health Controversial?
KEY TERMS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Economic impact Low birth-weight Sexually transmitted disease (STD) The mission of public health as defined by the Institute of Medicine report,…
The role of ethics in health care
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 1 The role of ethics in health care Case example Metropolitan Medical Center (MMC) is a private, not-for-profit 500-bed acute care hospital. MMC clinicians and administrators…
