Distributing Medical Care Services: Coronary Care Units in the United States and Sweden

1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard S. Bloom ◽  
Egon Jonsson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Coronary Care ◽  
Coronary Care Units

The Economic Attributes of Medical Care: Implications for Rationing Choices in the United States and United Kingdom

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwayne A. Banks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Public And Private Sector

The healthcare systems of the United States and United Kingdom are vastly different. The former relies primarily on private sector incentives and market forces to allocate medical care services, while the latter is a centrally planned system funded almost entirely by the public sector. Therefore, each nation represents divergent views on the relative efficacy of the market or government in achieving social objectives in the area of medical care policy. Since its inception in 1948, the National Health Services (NHS) of the United Kingdom has consistently emphasized equity in the allocation of medical services. It has done so by creating a system whereby services are universally free of charge at the point of entry. Conversely, the United States has relied upon the evolution of a perplexing array of public and private sector insurance schemes centered more around consumer choice than equity in allocation.

scholarly journals An International Mapping of Medical Care in Nursing Homes

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 117863291882508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gudmund Ågotnes ◽  
Margaret J McGregor ◽  
Joel Lexchin ◽  
Malcolm B Doupe ◽  
Beatrice Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fee For Service ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Service Models ◽  
Academic Publications

Nursing home (NH) residents are increasingly in need of timely and frequent medical care, presupposing not only available but perhaps also continual medical care provision in NHs. The provision of this medical care is organized differently both within and across countries, which may in turn profoundly affect the overall quality of care provided to NH residents. Data were collected from official legislations and regulations, academic publications, and statistical databases. Based on this set of data, we describe and compare the policies and practices guiding how medical care is provided across Canada (2 provinces), Germany, Norway, and the United States. Our findings disclose that there is a considerable difference to find among jurisdictions regarding specificity and scope of regulations regarding medical care in NHs. Based on our data, we construct 2 general models of medical care: (1) more regulations—fee-for-service payment—open staffing models and (2) less regulation—salaried positions—closed staffing models. Some evidence indicates that model 1 can lead to less available medical care provision and to medical care provision being less integrated into the overall care services. As such, we argue that the service models discussed can significantly influence continuity of medical care in NH.

scholarly journals Access to Cancer Care and General Medical Care Services Among Cancer Survivors in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (6) ◽  
pp. 783-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet S. de Moor ◽  
Katherine S. Virgo ◽  
Chunyu Li ◽  
Neetu Chawla ◽  
Xuesong Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Medical Care ◽  
Care Services

Nosocomial infections in coronary care units in the United States

1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 789-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
MichaelJ Richards ◽  
JonathanR Edwards ◽  
DavidH Culver ◽  
RobertP Gaynes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nosocomial Infections ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coronary Care ◽  
Coronary Care Units

The Special Perils of Being Old and Sick in Prison

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 276-284
Author(s):  
William J. Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Constitution ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Access To Medical Care

The United States Supreme Court declared in 1976 that deliberate indifference to the serious medical needs of prisoners constitutes the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain…proscribed by the Eighth Amendment. It matters not whether the indifference is manifested by prison doctors in their response to the prisoner’s needs or by prison guards intentionally denying or delaying access to medical care or intentionally interfering with treatment once prescribed—adequate prisoner medical care is required by the United States Constitution. My incarceration for four years at the Oakdale Satellite Prison Camp, a chronic health care level camp, gives me the perspective to challenge the generally promoted claim of the Bureau of Federal Prisons that it provides decent medical care by competent and caring medical practitioners to chronically unhealthy elderly prisoners. The same observation, to a slightly lesser extent, could be made with respect to deficiencies in the delivery of health care to prisoners of all ages, as it is all significantly deficient in access, competencies, courtesies and treatments extended by prison health care providers at every level of care, without regard to age. However, the frailer the prisoner, the more dangerous these health care deficiencies are to his health and, therefore, I believe, warrant separate attention. This paper uses first-hand experiences of elderly prisoners to dismantle the tale that prisoner healthcare meets constitutional standards.

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