ASSIGNMENT 1

In other for us to talk about health care in the United States, it is important for to trace the root of health from the Mid-19th century to the present date. The health care system has passed through four significant eras in the history of the country . I am going to break down these various eras for our better understanding. The year 1950 makes the beginning of health care in the united states . This year is so important for us because it’s saw the creation of the first hospitals in the states and its also marks the beginning of formal organization of health care in the country. It moves slowly to 1900 that coincides with the movement of health care in the U.S in to an era of scientific medicine. The world war two and the years following it until 1980 was a period of major social and political development . Here , organizational structures health care gave raise to insurance companies . The year 1980 approximately to present represented the change of health care from a primarily clinically driven system to one that was increasingly economically driven . This era was term as the era of limited resources due to the emerging nature of the economy that pave the way for infectious diseases such as small pox , plague , cholera and yellow fever all over the globe . but by 1900 , there was the improvement in environmental conditions and the emergence of technology in the field of medicine which brought infectious diseases under