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True or False:
The Edwin Smith is a payprus dating back to around 1500 BCE?
True or False?
Ancient peoples did not try and understand diseases or experiments with treatments?
Over the last several decades, the health care system has become more focused on whom?
True or False?
Public hospitals have declined in the US since the mid 1990's?
What are three trends in the health sciences?
The earliest surgery has thought to be taken place in where?
What site is often associated with teaching hospitals where medical and nursing students receive hands-on training and experience?
What is true abouot public health care sites?
Who is considered the father of modern anatomy?
Who found an ancient Egyptian papyrus that discussed medical concerns?
True or False?
Health sciences are the application of various sciences to health.
Private insurance is purchased by whom?
True or False?
Opium was a common medication before the modern era of medicine.
True or False?
Trepanation began in the 1860s in Asia.
Medicare is an example of what?
What is trepenation?
Covers the identification of diseases, illnesses, and other conditions, and the
process by which identification is made.
Concerned with treating disease, and healing individuals.
Storage of information, aquisition.
Public Health Care
Private Healthcare
Government Healthcare:
Non-Profit Insitutions
Examples of Integrative Medicne?
True or False? Cytotechnologists
may examine cells for abnormalities or disease.
True or False?
Few health science professions require licenses or certification.
True or False?
Some health science sites may restrict employees from wearing perfume or other scents.
True or False?
Most psychiatric hospitals are a form of tertiary care.
What type of biomedical engineer typically works in medical settings, maintaining diagnostic and therapeutic devices and aids and training others on proper usage?
For biomedical engineers, what degree is generally required to teach in a university setting?
True or False?
The license and certification requirements for a registered nurse are the same regardless of location.
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?
Cytotechnologists examine what?
True or False?
Biomedical engineering positions generally do not require a college degree.
Cytotechnologists often use which tool?
Who uses the information provided by cytotechnologists?
What characteristic relates to having the necessary skills and knowledge for the job?
Who was Florence Nightingale?
Primary Care:
Secondary Care:
Terterary Care
Quaternary Care:
Which of the following is a common disease in late adulthood?
True or False?
Many deaths in middle adulthood are caused by a single illness or disease, such as cancer or heart disease.
True or False?
Plasticity refers to the amount of change that is possible or the capacity for change.
What pattern of development refers to development that starts at the core and moves outward to the extremities?
True or False?
SIDS is a condition in which the infant stops breathing and dies for no apparent reason.
The average life expectancy in the United States is what?
True or False?
No development typically occurs in late adulthood.
About what percent of children between 6 and 11 years of age in the United States are considered overweight?
True or False?
On average, male and female children are fairly similar in height and weight during childhood.
Which organ loses about 5-10% of its weight by the time a person reaches 90 years of age?
True or False?
Individuals typically explore different careers and identities during middle adulthood.
Emerging adulthood typically takes place between which years of age?
True or False?
The brain slowly loses weight during adulthood.
Middle adulthood is thought to start at around what age in the United States?
What is a teratogen?
Cephalocaudal pattern of development is what?
Blood pressure is measured with which device?
True or False?
Children typically breathe more often per minute than adults.
True or False?
The metric system is a decimalized system of measurement used exclusively in the United States.
True or False?
CPR instructions are the same for all age groups.
When both chest compressions and rescue breaths are used in CPR, how many chest compressions should be performed before rescue breaths are started?
If someone is choking, what should you do first?
Which type of burn always requires medical attention?
Minimum blood pressure is what?
What is the average adult respiration rate per minute?
True or False?
A victim with a bleeding wound should be kept standing to maintain blood flow.
Which of the following is considered a vital sign?
a. Blood pressure
b. Respiration rate
c. Temperature
True or False?
When performing CPR, rescue breaths should be performed only by individuals trained in CPR.
True or False?
Normal human temperature is 94.7° Fahrenheit.
Which finger should not be used when measuring heart rate?
what is systolic blood pressure?
What is Blood Pressure?
True or False?
Ayurveda medicine was founded in China and is based on the idea of people’s life forces, called qi.
Doshas are what?
Which alternative medical system works on the theory that “like cures like”?
True or False?
A holistic approach is one that emphasizes the balance and integration of all the health dimensions.
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 or False?
Preventative health behaviors rarely have much influence on health as most diseases are genetic.
Today, about what percentage of mainstream pharmaceutical drugs were created from the compounds in plants and herbs?
What is the process of strengthening the body against a known illnesscausing agent?
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.
What is the primary purpose of screening?
Psychoneurimmunology is the study of which of the following?
Qi is which of the following in Chinese medicine?
psychoneuroimmunology -
believes that diseases occur when the body‘s natural ways of fighting off disease has been changed or altered in someway.
treatments or practises that are used along with traditional medicine to treat an illness or condition.
similar to acupuncture in that it uses specific points on the body, but it is different in that no needles are used.
