types of healthcare
The term for methods of therapies used in place of biomedical therapies
What is alternative therapies?
Ther term used when care is received without being admitted to hospitals or other facilities.
What is outpatient care?
The term for an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographical area.
What is a pandemic?
The woman who changed the sanitation practices during the Crimean War and saved many lives by making sure soldiers had good food, clean water, clean bedding thus saving 2/3 who would have died from infection or disease.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This has helped medicine advance faster than anything else in the 20th century.
What is technology? or Computer technology?
The term for methods of treatment used in conjunction with conventional medical therapies
What is complementary therapies?
The term used when a facility monitors and tries to control costs like electricity, water, gas, buidling efficiency.
What is energy conservation?
Ther term for the use of genetic and biochemical processes to modify or develop useful products.
What is biotechnology?
This man invented the polio vaccine in the 1950's.
Who is Jonas Salk?
This is a result of technological advances in medicine and has had a direct result of creating these that didn't exist before.
What is new job titles?
The term for mainstream medical treatments and CAM therapies to together to treat patients.
What is integrative health care?
The term used for a group of diagnoses that limits that amount of money a facility is paid for patients who have certain diagnosis- Medicare and Medicaid patients are who this applies to.
What is diagnostic related groups?
The care of the elderly population.
What is geriatric care?
This person developed antibiotics thus saving thousands of lives in the future.
Who is Sir Alexander Fleming?
These are benefits of home health care.
What is less costly, better for the patient, patients can retain dignity by living at home?
The term used for health care provided in the home of a patient.
What is Home health care?
The term for medical appointments that occur over the phone or by video thus saving time and money.
What is telemedicine?
The state of being in optimal health, balanced in all aspects of health.
What is wellness?
This person developed the process of pastuerization, a technique we still us today to ensure food and drink safety.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This shift has occured in how we approach health care as a whole, instead of treating episodes of illness, we've moved to this.
The term that promotes physical, emotional, spritiual, social and intellectual well being.
What is holistic health care?
The government act that led to developing training programs and competency evaluations for nursing assistants working with the elderly.
What is OBRA?
Daily double: List one type of care that would be considered complementary or alternative health care.
What is:
Accupuncture Meditation Reflexology
Hydrotherapy Pet therapy Pet therapy
Aromatherapy Massage Hypnotherapy
Chiropractic care Yoga Healing touch
This person is responsible for inventing the process of variolation when he vaccinated people with cow pox to protect against small pox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
Daily double: The demonological model of disease would be the explanation usedd to explain what caused illness in this time period.