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Common Medical Terminology Comes Of Age Summary

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Summary: This journal article is about Common Medical Terminology Comes of Age, Part One: Standard Language Improves Healthcare Quality, which relates to my topic about the Licensure of Medicine. In order to improve healthcare quality it first, starts with the healthcare professionals giving the help. This article states the negative outcomes that a doctor does when he does not give a sufficiently detailed information to convince their patients it could alter the quality of care. Also, it talks about how here in the United States we spend an astounding amount of money on healthcare, but we are ranked very poorly on providing health insurance, infant mortality, and quality.

Reliability: I decided to pick this Journal article manly, because …show more content…

Has important information about population, mortality, birth rates, different health risk factors between children, adolescents and adults with obesity. All this data can be contributed to my report because it has information on all types of topics that can impact the profession of a doctor. There is data on almost all different types of health problems that have caused many deaths in the U.S.. Also there is a section on this book that talks about the use of prescription drugs between the age of 18 and below. Knowing this information it is valuable to make a strong argument in my paper because doctors are the reason why there is a high rate of prescription drug abuse. There is a high rate of death of a variety of different health problems in which many can not be cured with medication nor medical treatment. Why is this still an …show more content…

Based on the Commonwealth Fund 2002 International Health Policy survey states that the Americans are more likely to use prescriptions drugs. Also the United States uses a larger income related inequalities in pharmaceutical use. Additionally, the price of medication in the U.S. is more expensive than it is in another country. The use of prescription drugs varies from age comparing all the 7 countries based on the graph it is easy to see that their is a high percentage of overuse of prescription drugs among the age of 18 and below. Based on the graph I am able to see that the United States has the highest percentage of more prescription drugs over the past 12 months. It is interesting to see how the United States has a high rate usage of medication comparing it to other countries. Why is it that more people in the United States are hooked on prescription drugs if the cost of medication is much more

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