Health and Illness in Modern Health Care
■ Objectives
1. Discuss the professional socialization of nurses, physicians, and other mem- bers of the health care delivery system.
2. Describe the “culture” of the health care providers. 3. Compare the growth of the gross domestic product and national health
care expenditures over time. 4. Compare the expenditures for health care in the United States with those
of other nations. 5. Itemize how the “dollar” spent for health care is allocated. 6. Recognize the interrelationships and trends of sociocultural, public health,
and medical events that have produced the crises in today’s modern health care system.
7. Break down the complex web of factors that impedes a person’s passage through the health care system.
8. Chart the “Amazing Maze of Health Care” and give examples of your per- sonal and professional experience.
9. Describe barriers to health care. 10. Identify the factors that determine medicine to be an institution of social
control. 11. Compare and contrast modern medical care and CULTURALCARE.