There are four basic service components necessary for a healthcare system to be considered complete. These for components are as follows:
Predominant "targets" of the health system at the time.
Technology to handle predominant health problems.
Social organization for health care.
Involvement of people in their health care.
In the following paragraphs we will look a little more in depth at these four components for healthcare systems and explain why these components are necessary in making healthcare complete.
Predominant "targets" of the health system
Before the healthcare system came to the United States of America, healthcare was declared to be an isolated and to some extent an unsystematic compilation of services. When the health system was newly established in the United States it brought forth a sense of organization and the concentration to health care in which it had been missing up to that time.
Technology to handle predominant health problems
Starting around the 1900's phase two in the health system brought medicine into a new technology.
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English: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service...The practice of medicine that was performed was measured more of an unofficial compilation of unverified oversimplification and the intent to perform in a manner that would help patients, but as of today health is not something to make assumptions about that is why with the opening of John Hopkins Medical Center health care became more of science. The scientific method was introduced into medicine, which gave it a good base in becoming meticulous and without a doubt a definite art.
Social organization for health care
Phase three was the turn around point at which insurance plans were starting to grow and being more widely used in the healthcare system, such as Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medicare and Medicaid. This is the principle healthcare as a right, not a privilege, was widely...