Question

As you see it, what political and economic factors have changed the U.S. health care system from its humble beginnings of domestic medicine and lay healers to one of the most technologically advanced health care systems in the world?

Answer 1

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS SUCH AS INCOME,EDUCATION,EMPLOYMENT,COMMUNITY SAFETY AND SOCIAL SUPPORTS CAN SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT HOW WELL AND HOW LONG WE LIVE.THESE FACTORS AFFECT OUR ABILITY TO MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES,AFFORD MEDICAL CARE AND HOUSING,MANGE STRESS AND MORE.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS ARE NOT COMMONLY COSIDERED WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH ,YET STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE THESE FACTORS CAN HAVE AN EVEN GREATER IMPACT ON HEALTH OVER TIME THAN THOSE TRADITIONALLY ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH IMPROVEMENT,SUCH AS STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE HEALTH BEHAVIOURS.

ACROSS THE NATION ,THERE ARE MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS IN COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN CUTNOFF FROM INVESTMENT OR HAVE EXPERIENCED DISCRIMINATION ,THESE GAPS DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECT PEOPLE OF COLOR-ESPECIALLY CHILDREN AND YOUTH.

IN THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS AREA OF THE COUNTRY HEALTH RANKINGS WE LOOK AT;

EDUCATION;SHOWING WHO IN A COMMUNITY HAS GRADUATED HIGH  SCHOOL OR ATTENDED SOME COLLEGE IN ADDITION TO THE PERCENTAGE OF TEENS AND YOUTH ADULTS AGES 16-19 WHO ARE NEITHER WORKING NOR IN SCHOOL

EMPLOYMENT; INCREASE THE UMEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS.

INCOME;LOOKING AT CHILDREN IN POVERTY AND INCOME INEQUALITY.

FAMILY AND SOCIAL SUPPORT;PROVIDING INFORMATION ON CHILDREN IN SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLDS AND ACCESS TO SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES

COMMUNITY SAFETY;MEASURING VIOLENT CRIME AND INJURY DEATH.

DOMESTIC MEDICINE OR DOMESTIC HEALTH CARE IS THE BEHAVIORAL ,NUTRITIONAL AND HEALTH CARE PRACTICES ,HYGIENE INCLUDED,PERFORMED IN THE HOUSEHOLD AND TRANSMITTED FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE OTHER.

THE CONCEPT OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE ,WAS FIRST MADE POPULAR IN WESTERN COUNTRIES BY SCOTTISH PHYSICIAN WILLIAM BUCHAN IN THE 18TH CENTURY AND WAS SPREAD BY DOMESTIC ECONOMY MANUALS THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TWO HUNDRED YEARS.

THE CONCEPT OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE EXPLORED NEW IDEAS THAT CHANGED THE WAY MOST PEOPLE PERCEIVED MEDICINE.THIS WAS AN ERA IN WHICH THE MAJORITY OF HEALTH CARE WAS PROVIDED BY INDIVIIDUALS WHO WERE NOT CONSIDERED PHYSICIANS .

THEREFORE,,THE SPREAD OF DOMESTIC MEDICINAL PRACTICES SERVED AS A RESOURCE FOR BETTER HEALTH CARE FOR THOSE WHO COULD NOT AFFORD A PHYSICIAN OR DIDNOT HAVE ACCESS TO MORE TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED PRACTICES OF MEDICINE

=SOCIAL ND ECOMICAL FACTORS

DOMESTIC MEDICINE PROVIDED A PLATFORM FOR THE PUBLIC TO EASILY ACCESS MEDICAL CARE.PEOPLE FROM THE LOWER,WOKING CLASS,IN PARTICULAR ,FELL UNDER THIS SUBGROUP OF THE POPULATION WHO REAPED MOST OF THE BENEFITS FROM THIS STYLE OF MEDICINAL PRACTICES.WHEATHER IT BE DUE TONECONOMIC REASONS,PERSONAL PREFERENCE OR JUST THE FACT THAT NO PERSON IN THEIR PROXIMITY HAD BEEN TRAINED IN MODERN FORMS OF MEDICINE,THEY RELIED ON THE CARE FROM PEOPLE THEY TRUSTED,HENCE ,DOMESTIC MEDICINE PROMPTED COMMON FOLK WITH A LIMITED KNOWLEDE OF MEDICINE TO CARE FOR OTHERS USING THE RESOURCES AVAILBLE TO THEM ,..

THE EXPANSION OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN EDUCATION NOT ONLY FOR THE COMMONER BUT ALSO WOMEN,A GROUP THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN LIMITED IN THEIR MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT.

IN ADDITION,DOMESTIC MEDICINE ENCOMPASSED A FACTOR WHICH THE TRADITIONALMEDICAL PRACTICES IGNORED.INSTEAD OF CURING A DISEASE ONCE IT HAS BEEN CONTRACTED,THIS IDEA OF MEDICINE INCORPORATED STRATEGIES THAT PROMOTED HEALH PRESERVATION AND DISEASE PREVENTION.THE BELIF WAS THAT IF PEOPLE COULD MAXIMIZE HYGIENE AND CLEANLINESS THEY COULD AVOID ANY TYPE OF STICKY STATE.

DOMESTIC MEDICINE WAS THE IMPROVEMENT IN THE POPULATIONS EDUCATION.EARLY ESTIMATES OF LITERACY IN THE EARLY 1800S SHOW THAT NEARLY A QUARTER OF THE US CITIZENS IN THE NORTH AND NEARLY HALF OF THE CITIZEN IN THE SOUTH COULD NOT READ READ OR WRITE.HOWEVER ,BY 1840,THIS NUMBER HAD SHRUNK TO NEARLY 9%.

=SINCE THE MID 20TH CENTURY THE SUCCESS OF SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE ,ASSOCIATED TO THE RISE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MEDICAL SERVICES ,DISRUPTED MOST FAMILY SELF CARE TRADITIONS,DECREASING THE TRANSFER OF MOST DOMESTIC MEDICINE SKILLS FROM PARENTS TO CHILDREN.

ADVANCED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM;

THERES NEVER BEEN A MORE EXCITING TIME TO BE IN THE DIGITAL HEALTH CARE SPACE THAN RIGHT NOW.

HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES ENCOMPASS ALL THE DEVICES,MEDICINE,VACCINES,PROCEDURES AND SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO STREAMLINE HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS.LOWER COST AND ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF CARE .ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BLOCK CHAIN,VOICE SEARCH,CHAT BOTS AND VIRTUAL REALITY ARE AMONG THE MOST PROMISING HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES IN 2020.

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