Women In STEM
This nurse, known as “The Lady with the Lamp,” is considered the founder of modern nursing.
Florence Nightingale
These clinics provide low-cost care regardless of ability to pay.
Community health clinics
The monthly payment you make for insurance.
Premium
California’s Medicaid program is called this.
Medi-Cal
This professional specializes in interpreting medical imaging like X-rays and MRIs.
Radiologist
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and is famous for research on radiation.
Marie Curie
This public system serves many uninsured residents in Alameda County.
Alameda Health System
The amount you pay before insurance starts covering costs.
Deductible
This law expanded healthcare access nationwide, including in California.
Affordable Care Act
This role focuses on administering anesthesia and monitoring patients during surgery.
Anesthesiologist
This Black female physician helped reduce infant mortality and trained midwives in the rural South.
Mary Eliza Mahoney
These federally funded clinics must serve patients even if they cannot pay.
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
Doctors that accept your insurance are considered this.
In-network
This is a major challenge in California that affects access to healthcare, especially in rural areas.
Provider shortages
This specialist studies diseases at the cellular level, often using lab samples.
Pathologist
She was the first African American woman in space and also a physician.
Mae Jemison
This is a common barrier that prevents people from accessing clinics even if care is affordable.
Transportation
This program provides health insurance mainly for people 65+.
Medicare
In California, young adults can stay on their parents’ insurance until this age.
26
This public health professional tracks disease patterns and outbreaks in populations.
Epidemiologist
this woman co-developed mRNA technology that helped make modern vaccines possible, including those used during COVID-19.
Katalin Karikó
This payment model adjusts healthcare costs based on a patient’s income level.
Sliding scale
This type of health plan usually requires referrals to see specialists and has a more limited network.
HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)
This proposed system would eliminate private insurance and have the government cover all healthcare costs.
Single-payer system
This healthcare role focuses on improving patient outcomes by managing medication use and preventing drug interactions.
Clinical pharmacist