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Flashcards by izzy schaffer, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by izzy schaffer
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| Question | Answer |
| True or False: The Edwin Smith is a payprus dating back to around 1500 BCE? | True :) |
| True or False? Ancient peoples did not try and understand diseases or experiments with treatments? | False |
| Over the last several decades, the health care system has become more focused on whom? | patients |
| True or False? Public hospitals have declined in the US since the mid 1990's? | True |
| What are three trends in the health sciences? | 1. more patient centered care 2. Advancing technology 3. Integrative medicine |
| The earliest surgery has thought to be taken place in where? | Eygypt |
| What site is often associated with teaching hospitals where medical and nursing students receive hands-on training and experience? | Public Health Care sites |
| What is true abouot public health care sites? | They are open to anyone. |
| Who is considered the father of modern anatomy? | Vesalius |
| Who found an ancient Egyptian papyrus that discussed medical concerns? | Edwin Smith |
| True or False? Health sciences are the application of various sciences to health. | True |
| Private insurance is purchased by whom? | Individuals |
| True or False? Opium was a common medication before the modern era of medicine. | True |
| True or False? Trepanation began in the 1860s in Asia. | False |
| Medicare is an example of what? | Social Insurance Program |
| What is trepenation? | One of the earliest forms of surgery, involved drilling a hole into a skull to release pressure. |
| Covers the identification of diseases, illnesses, and other conditions, and the process by which identification is made. | Diagnostics |
| Concerned with treating disease, and healing individuals. | Therapudic |
| Storage of information, aquisition. | Informatics |
| Public Health Care | Funded by a varioty of sources and open to everyone. Open to government funding and will treat individuals without insurance and for free. |
| Private Healthcare | Where the hospitals are owned by fore-profit companies, and the profit comes from the patients insurance payments. The focus is to make a profit. |
| Government Healthcare: | May serve populations that can't afford the costs of healthcare sites. |
| Non-Profit Insitutions | The site does not seek to make a profit, usually a religous based company. |
| Examples of Integrative Medicne? | Acupuncture, Massage, Chi, botanical recipes etc. |
| True or False? Cytotechnologists may examine cells for abnormalities or disease. | True |
| True or False? Few health science professions require licenses or certification. | False |
| True or False? Some health science sites may restrict employees from wearing perfume or other scents. | True |
| True or False? Most psychiatric hospitals are a form of tertiary care. | True |
| What type of biomedical engineer typically works in medical settings, maintaining diagnostic and therapeutic devices and aids and training others on proper usage? | Clinical Engineer |
| For biomedical engineers, what degree is generally required to teach in a university setting? | PHd |
| True or False? The license and certification requirements for a registered nurse are the same regardless of location. | False |
| What health science profession helps individuals participate in the tasks and activities that they want or need to perform as part of their daily lives? | Occupational Therapist |
| Cytotechnologists examine what? | Cells |
| True or False? Biomedical engineering positions generally do not require a college degree. | False |
| Cytotechnologists often use which tool? | Microscope |
| Who uses the information provided by cytotechnologists? | Pathologists |
| What characteristic relates to having the necessary skills and knowledge for the job? | Competence |
| Who was Florence Nightingale? | "the lady with the lamp" , advocate for improving sanitation! |
| Primary Care: | refers to the health services professionals who work in a community and |
| Secondary Care: | involves medical specialists and urgent, emergency care. |
| Terterary Care | Care that is very specialized and often deals with inpatient care for patients at special sites focus on one or more illness or diseases. |
| Quaternary Care: | sometimes used to describe care that is extremely specialized or experimental in nature |
| Which of the following is a common disease in late adulthood? | Arthritis |
| True or False? Many deaths in middle adulthood are caused by a single illness or disease, such as cancer or heart disease. | True |
| True or False? Plasticity refers to the amount of change that is possible or the capacity for change. | True |
| What pattern of development refers to development that starts at the core and moves outward to the extremities? | Proximodistal pattern |
| True or False? SIDS is a condition in which the infant stops breathing and dies for no apparent reason. | True |
| The average life expectancy in the United States is what? | 77 years |
| True or False? No development typically occurs in late adulthood. | False |
| About what percent of children between 6 and 11 years of age in the United States are considered overweight? | 30% |
| True or False? On average, male and female children are fairly similar in height and weight during childhood. | True |
| Which organ loses about 5-10% of its weight by the time a person reaches 90 years of age? | brain |
| True or False? Individuals typically explore different careers and identities during middle adulthood. | False |
| Emerging adulthood typically takes place between which years of age? | 18-25 |
| True or False? The brain slowly loses weight during adulthood. | True |
| Middle adulthood is thought to start at around what age in the United States? | 40years |
| What is a teratogen? | any substance that interfers with the normal development of an fetus in the womb. |
| Cephalocaudal pattern of development is what? | Development occurs from the top/head down. |
| Blood pressure is measured with which device? | Sphygmomanometer |
| True or False? Children typically breathe more often per minute than adults. | True |
| True or False? The metric system is a decimalized system of measurement used exclusively in the United States. | False |
| True or False? CPR instructions are the same for all age groups. | False |
| When both chest compressions and rescue breaths are used in CPR, how many chest compressions should be performed before rescue breaths are started? | 30 |
| If someone is choking, what should you do first? | ask if he or she is okay. |
| Which type of burn always requires medical attention? | Third degree |
| Minimum blood pressure is what? | Diastolic |
| What is the average adult respiration rate per minute? | 12-18 breaths |
| True or False? A victim with a bleeding wound should be kept standing to maintain blood flow. | False |
| Which of the following is considered a vital sign? a. Blood pressure b. Respiration rate c. Temperature | all of them |
| True or False? When performing CPR, rescue breaths should be performed only by individuals trained in CPR. | true |
| True or False? Normal human temperature is 94.7° Fahrenheit. | False |
| Which finger should not be used when measuring heart rate? | thumb |
| what is systolic blood pressure? | maximum blood pressure |
| What is Blood Pressure? | the amount of pressure placed on the walls by the circulating blood. |
| True or False? Ayurveda medicine was founded in China and is based on the idea of people’s life forces, called qi. | False |
| Doshas are what? | Substances or humors in the body |
| Which alternative medical system works on the theory that “like cures like”? | homeopathy |
| True or False? A holistic approach is one that emphasizes the balance and integration of all the health dimensions. | True |
| True or False? The purpose of screenings is to find a disease early when it is often easier to treat than when it has had a chance to progress. | True |
| True or False? Preventative health behaviors rarely have much influence on health as most diseases are genetic. | FALSE |
| Today, about what percentage of mainstream pharmaceutical drugs were created from the compounds in plants and herbs? | 25% |
| What is the process of strengthening the body against a known illnesscausing agent? | Immunization |
| True or False? Universal prevention is used to give all members of the population information about a disease or unhealthy habit in order to encourage greater health. | TRUE |
| What is the primary purpose of screening? | To identify the disease before the symptoms appear. |
| Psychoneurimmunology is the study of which of the following? | The mind, the central nervous system and the immune system. |
| Qi is which of the following in Chinese medicine? | Life-force |
| psychoneuroimmunology - | _combines a study of the mind, the central nervous system and immunology_ |
| believes that diseases occur when the body‘s natural ways of fighting off disease has been changed or altered in someway. | naturopathy |
| treatments or practises that are used along with traditional medicine to treat an illness or condition. | complementary medicine |
| similar to acupuncture in that it uses specific points on the body, but it is different in that no needles are used. | acupressure |
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