Chapter 2: Categories of Health Services

• Which 2 countries similar to the U.S. have national health insurance systems?

  Canada and the United Kingdom
• In what year did Canada implement a national health insurance system?

  1966
• What is the UK health delivery system called?

  The National Health Service
• What percent of jobs in healthcare do hospitals employ?


  39%
• What are the five broad types of services offered by the healthcare system?

  Health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation, and chronic care.
• Where can clients requiring diagnosis and treatment find health care?

  Physicians' offices, ambulatory care centers, and outpatient clinics.
• How many community hospitals were in the U.S. in 2021?

  5,141
• How many nonprofit hospitals were in the U.S. in 2021?

  2,946
• How many for profit hospitals were in the U.S. in 2021?

  1,233
• How many state and local hospitals were in the U.S. in 2021?


  962
• How many federal government hospitals were in the U.S. in 2021?

  208
• How many non-federal psychiatric hospitals were in the U.S. in 2021?

  625
• Public hospitals are owned by who?

  Local, state, or federal agencies.
• Federally owned hospitals are generally reserved for who?

  The military, veterans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, or other special groups.
• Care that is provided outside institutional settings is considered what?

  Ambulatory care
• Ambulatory care is the most frequent what with the healthcare system?

  Contact that most people have