Vocabulary I
Relating to the mother or from the mother
What is maternal?
They serve the mentally ill.
What is State Psychiatric Hospitals?
CDC
What is The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention?
U.S Public Health Service
What is protect,promote, & advance the health and safety of the nation?
Facilities
What is places designed toserve a special function?
Process that helps people who have been disables by sickness/injury to recover abilities for daily activities to live.
What is rehabilitation?
Federally supported and provide care for vterans who served in the armed forces.
What is Veterans Administration Hospital?
FDA
What is The Food & DRug Administration?
County Hospitals
What is providing care for the ill & injured, especially those patients who require financial help in order to recieve care?
Chronic
What is continuing over many years & for a long time?
The medical speciality concerned with correcting problems with the skeletal system.
What is orthopedics?
Protects the health of all Americans by providing vital human services, especially to those least able to help themselves.
What is US Department of Health & Human Services?
OSHA
What is The Occupational Safety & Health Administration?
The Food & Drug Administration
What is assures the safety of foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, biological products, and medical devices?
Convalescene
What is the gradual recovery of health & strength after illness?
What is obstetrics?
Concerned with world health problems and publishes health information, compiles statistics, and investigates serious health problems.
What is World Health Organization?
AHRQ
What is The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality?
Labratory Facilities
Therapeutic
What is pertaining to the treatment of disease or injury? ( physical therapy, radiology, etc. )
Pertaining to the determination of the nature of a disease/injury by examining ( x-ray/lab test )
What is diagnostic?
Imposes safet & health legislation to prevent injury, illness, and death in the workplace.
What is The Occupational Safety & Health Administration?
USDHHS
What is the US Department of Health & Human Services?
Local Public Health Departments
What is providing services to local communities - focusing on the reporting of communicable diseases, public health nursing, health education, environmental sanistation, maternal, etc. ?
Geriatric
What is a branch of medicine that deals with the problems & diseases of old age and aging people?