How Has Health Care Changed In The 20th Century
Introduction
Throughout the years, health care has changed and developed into this vase source of information. Historically, health care has derived from the simplest form to the advanced sciences. With the ideas of health and illness always changing the methodology of the health care process must change as well. Throughout the history of health care there has been a multitude of events that have changed the course of the process of diagnosing and curing infectious diseases as well as viruses. For example, in the twentieth century there were trends that began such as life expectancy increases which meant that the people had to recognize the necessity to take better care of themselves to promote a lasting, healthy life.
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Living in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries there would have a very different diagnosis for many different diseases; for example, Arthritis. In the 19th Century it would 've been diagnosed through the cellular theory and later one distinguished through the germ theory. As time and medicine transformed into the 20th Centuries there would 've been test ran through the Biomedical model, which assumed the disease was a result of a pathogen that invaded the body; other ways in the 20th century the researchers/doctors would 've been able to distinguish the disease would 've been through the upcoming discovery of Behavioral Medicine in the early 1970s. In the 21st Century, Modern Medicine would be able to give the patient any diagnosis in a matter of hours with a few diagnostic tests ran through a local hospital or primary doctor. The development of medicine has really been amazing and reading it though the text and not only just seeing it firsthand but it gives the reader a better sense of where health psychology and care has been and the different stages it has gone through and will go through in the future as medicine continues to
Throughout the years, health care has changed and developed into this vase source of information. Historically, health care has derived from the simplest form to the advanced sciences. With the ideas of health and illness always changing the methodology of the health care process must change as well. Throughout the history of health care there has been a multitude of events that have changed the course of the process of diagnosing and curing infectious diseases as well as viruses. For example, in the twentieth century there were trends that began such as life expectancy increases which meant that the people had to recognize the necessity to take better care of themselves to promote a lasting, healthy life.
Changes in Health Care …show more content…
Living in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries there would have a very different diagnosis for many different diseases; for example, Arthritis. In the 19th Century it would 've been diagnosed through the cellular theory and later one distinguished through the germ theory. As time and medicine transformed into the 20th Centuries there would 've been test ran through the Biomedical model, which assumed the disease was a result of a pathogen that invaded the body; other ways in the 20th century the researchers/doctors would 've been able to distinguish the disease would 've been through the upcoming discovery of Behavioral Medicine in the early 1970s. In the 21st Century, Modern Medicine would be able to give the patient any diagnosis in a matter of hours with a few diagnostic tests ran through a local hospital or primary doctor. The development of medicine has really been amazing and reading it though the text and not only just seeing it firsthand but it gives the reader a better sense of where health psychology and care has been and the different stages it has gone through and will go through in the future as medicine continues to