History of Healthcare
Future Trends
Current Issues
Health Science Careers
Vocabulary
100

This was thought to cause disease in Ancient times.

What is Evil Spirits?

100

Ultrasound, CT, and MRI are all examples of this medical technology.

What is Medical Imaging?

100

This is the primary reason healthcare opportunities are on the rise. 

What is aging population and longer life expectancy. 

100

These are the 5 pathways in the Health Science career cluster.

What are "Therapeutic Services, Diagnostic Services, Support Services, Health Informatics, and Biotechnology"?

100

These are healthcare practices that minimize or avoid the use of surgery or drugs. 

What is "alternative, complementary, or integrative therapies"?

200

This person was a nurse who is started the first nursing school and is considered the "Founder of Modern Nursing".

Who is Florence Nightingale

200

This is the technology that uses computer software to access patient records, record vital signs, and update treatments for a specific patient.

What is Electronic Health Records?

200

This is the main cause of insurance accessibility issues.

What is "increasing cost of healthcare"?

200

Any education past high school, such as community colleges, technical schools, or universities.

What is "Postsecondary Education"?

200

These are therapies that treat the patient as a whole, taking into account their mental, social, spiritual, and physical needs.

What is "holistic care"?

300

This person is known as the "Father of Medicine".

Hippocrates

300

This is personalized medical care that uses a patient's unique combination of genes and chromosomes.

What is "genomic medicine"?

300

These are the 2 types of government funded insurance programs.

What is "Medicaid and Medicare"?

300

Medical knowledge is estimated to do this every 6-8 years. 

What is "doubles"?

300

These are groups of similar occupations that share a core set of basic knowledge. 

What is "career clusters"?
400

A century ago, this profession was able to treat the pain or symptoms involved with an illness but not cure the disease. Often they prepared their patient for death from an illness that could not be treated.

What are "Physicians/Doctors"?

400

This is a form of medical care that creates living tissue to replace tissue or organ functions lost due to illness or injury.

What is "regenerative medicine"?

400

This is the Act that calls for major changes in the US healthcare system that will provide care to a larger number of citizens. 

What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?

400

These are documents proving a person's qualifications for a particular occupation. 

What are "credentials"?

400

This is the most common form of medical care in the United States, which uses medication and surgery to treat the signs and symptoms of disease.

What is "Western Medicine"?

500

Last century, this greatly reduced the incidence of illness due to Smallpox or Tetanus. 

What are "Smallpox and Tetanus vaccinations"?

500

This is a field of science that uses atoms and molecules to create devices that are thousands of times smaller that what technology currently has. (nanobots entering the cells)

What is "Nanotechnology"?

500

This type of insurance allows the patient to pick his/her own hospital or doctor.

What is a "PPO"?

500

This is a sequence of job positions that progress from entry-level to higher levels of authority.

What is "career ladder"?

500

This is the official recognition from a professional association that an educational program meets the standards for an occupation.

What is "accreditation"?