CH2 Vocabulary
People that live the rest of their lives in long-term care facilities
What are residents?
Phenomenon between 1946 and 1964 where the average age of the U.S. population decreased because of the large number of births
What is the baby boom?
This trend in healthcare includes the use of electronic health records (EHR) and nurses having smart phones to carry around to be in constant communication with their patients
What is technology?
X-rays, CT scans, ultrasound imaging, in vitro fertilization
What is Modern Times?
This healthcare facility is where exams and diagnosis are provided for both acute and sudden illnesses as well as chronic or long-term illnesses
What are practitioners' offices and clinics?
The practice of disinfecting surgical equipment and hand washing as a way to prevent the spread of infection
What is medical asepsis?
What are electronic health records (EHR)?
This trend affects our society and the rising costs of healthcare because this particular population requires more services
What is the aging population?
Invention of the stethoscope, when the connection between health and the environment was made, and when Louis Pasteur developed the basis for modern microbiology
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This healthcare facility is for patients who may not need round-the-clock nursing services.
What is long-term care facilities?
Facility that offers separate living quarters and provides meals, housekeeping, and medical supervision
What is an assisted-living center?
Routine daily activities of patients
What are activities of daily living (ADL)?
This trend in healthcare led to the fitness movement in the 1980s and includes hospital wellness centers
What is preventive medicine and wellness?
Invention of the printing press, microscope, and the development of the scientific method
What is the Renaissance?
This healthcare facility is where tests on blood and other body fluids are performed
What is a laboratory?
Addressed in the Affordable Care Act.
What is healthcare reform?
Technologies of hardware, software, and data that help plan for emergencies and track outbreak patterns
What is a geographic information system (GIS)?
This trend in healthcare is necessary so that there can be more people with health insurance so that they have access to quality healthcare
What is healthcare reform?
When the caduceus became linked with medicine and the 'Hippocratic Oath' was formed
What is Prehistory and the Ancient World?
This healthcare facility helps patients regain mental or physical abilities
What are rehabilitation centers?
An important symbol in medicine that depicts two snakes entwined around a pole
What is the caduceus?
The Greek medical practitioner who is responsible for the idea of maintaining patient privacy and never deliberately doing harm to them
Who is Hippocrates?
This trend in healthcare gained popularity when insurance companies reduced the reimbursement paid to inpatient facilities and includes home health services
What is outpatient care?
The significance of the barber surgeon and the beginning of medical care regulation
What is The Middle Ages?
What are hospices?